But I would NOT simply edit the amount. It is better accounting practice
to leave an audit trail for corrections. You can create a "correction
transaction". If, as described, you want the effect to be as if you had
entered the correct amount initially, date the transaction so it will
appear
The carpenter’s rule I learned was, “Measure twice, cut once.” Those other two
rules, while true, produce lots of waste in materials and time. All three lend
credence to the maxim, “You can have it right, or right now, but not both."
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But to the question, yes, you can simply change the
First make a backup copy of your .gnucash file, in fact no doubt you
are backing up your data file regularly anyway. That is the file that
has the name that you gave it when you first saved it in gnucash and
probably has the extension .gnucash.
Does the account currently match that in the
Hello all,
I moved my accounting from Simply Accounting 7 (something) on Win 7 to
GC 2.6.19 on ubuntu linux back in January/19. For starting balances I
used my trial balance from 2018 on Simply Accounting to get the values
for Jan 1/19 on GC. I subsequently worked like a bionic beaver to do
