Public accountant question: prior year adjustments to retained earnings?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Richard,

With respect to the archives, you should be able to find archives of the mailing list here: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/

I do see though that the ‘searchable’ link to them from the main GnuCash mailing list page doesn’t seem to work.

You can however perform a search on Google (and possibly with other engines) using the searchterm:site syntax. An example might be “adjustment to retained earnings:lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/“ (quotes not necessary and ignored by Google)

This will return hopefully relevant results of the Google index of that particular site, in this case, the gnucash-user mailing list html archive.

You could also try nabble.com which is a searchable interface to the mailing list of your choice.

-Adrien
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> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:20:50 +0000
> From: Richard Games <richard at mycpas.ca>
> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Public accountant question: prior year adjustments to
> 	retained earnings?
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> Hello, I'm a public practice accountant in Canada and unfamiliar with Gnucash. I have tried to check the archies for this topic, but the archive were unavailable on the maillist site.
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> I have a client that has made entries in the prior year by accident. Therefore I need to make an adjustment to retained earnings.
> 
> When I go to the account that needs adjustment, all is fine, but I cannot find retained earnings within the listed accounts for the other side of the entry.
> 
> Two questions:
> Could someone please tell me how to locate retained earnings for journal entries?
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> Is there a general journal transaction entry screen - or do all entries have to be entered directly into the register of one of the accounts?
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> 
> Thank you very much,
> Richard