How to enter from my old accounting system

[Derek Atkins]

Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> writes:

> Mat,
>
> You probably don't want to hear this, but "start fresh".  Pick a date,
> beginning of this year, beginning of FY, etc, and start by entering in your
> reconciled values from your old system as "opening balance" in Gnucash.
> Then go forward from there.  You are well advised to study the Gnucash
> guide and work thru the examples there first.  This will give you a good
> idea of how you want to set up your own accounts, and it will teach you the
> details of how to use Gnucash.  I made the conversion from Quicken 2007 to
> GC in February and I started from Jan 1.
>
> --- Jeff Earickson
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Mat Redsell <mat at amtelecom.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am running another accounting system that is not read by gnu cash... so
>> in order to move into gnu cash how do I enter the amounts from my present
>> accounting system.I realize when you first set it up and say set it up as a
>> business accounting system it gives you a set amount of accounts and it
>> allows you to enter amounts at that point but I need to create many
>> accounts and enter the amounts for my present system.
>>
>> Any solutions? I am new to this accounting system.

Note that generally you only need to set opening balances on Assets and
Liabilities.  I doubt you have many of those.

>> mat

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-derek

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