opening balance for new vendor?

[Derek Atkins]

Merlin Zener <merlin.zener at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> As it's a new year here in Australia, I'm setting up a new file for
> the 09/10 financial year.
> No trouble entering opening balances in bank accounts etc, but when it
> comes to vendors, I don't see a way to set up a new vendor with an
> amount outstanding that's not due to be paid till the 21st of July. I
> don't really want to just add a transaction on the 1st of July, that
> would mess up profit/loss for this month. I'd rather have the total
> equity properly recorded as at 1st of July, too...
>
> Can anyone tell me how this is done?

What do you mean?  A Vendor is just an address entity.  It's not an
account.  If you have outstanding invoices then you'll need to re-enter
them in the new data file.

> Thanks,
> --
> Merlin Zener
> piano, synthesizer.

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-derek

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