New account - how to arrange opening balance

[James Wilde]

On Feb 2, 2010, at 21:19 , James Wilde wrote:

> When one sets up a chart of accounts, if one chooses one of the defaults - and I assume one must choose one of them - one can assign an opening balance to all accounts on the list, except placeholders, of course.  But a pre-designed chart of accounts is never exactly as one would like it to be, and new accounts are almost always necessary.  For example, I needed to enter a tax debt for a capital gain, and a debtor account for someone to whom I lent money.  But when I create these accounts later I am unable to assign them an opening balance, and, as I say, I cannot see that there is any way to add an account or two at the create chart of accounts stage.  So how does one do?
> 
I'm very sorry everyone.  I'm not paying attention.  When I created the extra accounts I needed I looked everywhere for a field for opening balance.  What I didn't see was that there is a tab on the New Account window with just that name, Opening Balance, and that, of course, is the way to do it.

//J