How to create an opening balance?

Josh Sled jsled at asynchronous.org
Thu Mar 10 09:52:52 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:38, andy thomas wrote:

> I note that equity accounts have a facility to create an opening balance - 
> should I just create an Equity:BroughtForward account and put last year's 
> bank balance into that when I start the new accounts?

Yes.  `Equity:Opening Balances` is encouraged in various places in the
app, but an Equity account by any other name will record as sweet.

...jsled

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