How do I set opening balance in checking account

[Chris Henderson]

Thanks; I mixed-up "Equity:Opening Balances" (which is pre-configured)
with Stocks.

From: http://www.myinvestmentblog.com/getting-started-your-gnucash-checking-account

"Tab to the Account column and select Equity:Opening Balances from the
drop-down menu. This is the catch-all account which holds all your
starting balances. It's the "equity" you bring to the program when you
first start using it." -- this makes things clear.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:36 PM, denis | dcore <denis at dcore.asia> wrote:
> if you deposit something into the checking account you can pick which
> account to credit (if it shows "Imbalance" you can just change this account
> to "Opening Balance" which is a preconfigured account in GnuCash as far as I
> know).
>
> Even easier:
>
> If you look into the GnuCash help, one of the very first chapters... you
> will notice that there is exactly this case as an example with screenshots
> and everything that you can follow. In that example it is explained how to
> enter your opening balance.
>
> and here is another post explaining this:
>
> http://www.myinvestmentblog.com/getting-started-your-gnucash-checking-account
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Chris Henderson <henders254 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Under Assets -> Current Assets, I have an account called Checking
>> Account. How do I set opening balance for that? If I open this
>> checking account and put $1,000 in Deposit, it shows transfer as
>> Imbalance. I have also tried to edit the checking account but there
>> seem no place to put the opening balance.
>>
>> Gnucash version 2.4.11 on OS X Mountain Lion.
>>
>> Thanks.
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