Balancing Register After Import

[Joseph Hesse]

My quicken accounts go back to 1991. I imported my quicken accounts, 
starting with 1/1/2013 to gnucash using your instructions. No problem 
with the import.

I have open the Quicken register and the gnucash register for my credit 
card. When I match the balance columns for the same date, I see 
different numbers, presumably because the accounts start at a different 
date.

In order to have the balance column match in both Quicken and gnucash, I 
plan on putting a fake transaction in the credit card of 12/31/2012.  Is 
this the right approach? Does the balance column mean the same thing in 
Quicken and gnucash?

Thank you,
Joe