New user struggling.

[Ariel]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Bill wrote:

> I did, however, create the accounts without entering the opening balance 
> at the time, and now I find it very difficult to get it right.  A 
> correct method is not described in the manual. Is there one?

This bothered me too. But it's actually very easy: you should have an 
account called: Equity/Opening Balances all you need to do is transfer 
money from there to create an opening balance. (That's exactly what 
happens if you enter an opening balance when creating a new account.)

 	-Ariel