Using gnucash

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 9 08:47:57 EST 2011


On 9 January 2011 11:44, Dr. Md. Aminul Islam Khan <aikhan_lab at bdcom.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 09:28 -0500, Anthony Dardis wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:15:43 -0500, Md. Aminul Islam Khan
>> <aikhanlab at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I had been using gnucash irregularly. Possibly due to lack of
>> > understanding.
>> > Want to use it regularly.
>> > Should I:
>> > 1. Use the old file and continue from the present date (stopped using
>> > them
>> > some few months ago and difficult to update all the transactions).
>> > 2. Export Accounts and use that as start
>> > 3. Create new file and start new.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
>> >
>> > aikhan
>>
>> The answer will depend on what you want.
>>
>> If you don't care very much whether your file has old data, then just
>> starting from new and learning as you put in your real transactions might
>> be the best way to go (and the beginning of January is a great time).
>>
>> If you want or need your file to have older data in it, it will have to
>> get in there somehow.
>
> Thanks for your guidance. I want to retain some of the data from before
> (started using gnucash in 2008). Is that possible without updating all
> the transactions?

You could add a balancing transaction to each account to get the
current balance right and then go from there.

Colin


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