starting balance on new file

[Colin Law]

On 5 February 2012 04:45, Nolan Young <nryoung415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Version is 2.4.0 under OpenSuse Linux.
>
> Created new file for 2012, with the usual accounts.  Created transaction
> dated 1/1/2012 called "Opening Balance" with description "Equity:Opening
> Balances".  But when I start to reconcile, it says starting balance is 0.00.

The opening balance that you entered is one of the items that you will
have to reconcile, so the starting balance before that is zero.

Colin