Balancing Register After Import

[Colin Law]

On 17 December 2015 at 15:43, Joseph Hesse <joehesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, they do mean the same thing.  Put the balancing transaction in by
modifying (or adding) an Opening Balance at the beginning, I think it
should go against an Equity acct, but I am never quite sure on this.

Colin

>
> Thank you,
> Joe
>
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