Cannot edit opening balance

[John R. Sowden]

My suggestion is to never use the opening balance in an accounting 
system.  Instead, I create a series of General Journal entries, each 
with about 5-6 transaction pairs, to cover all of the asset, liability 
and equity accounts.  Works well.  I have learned over the decades that 
the programmer does not want the user to edit the beginning balance once 
it is entered.

John



On 12/10/2017 02:01 PM, Carmelo Pagán wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>   
>
> I’ve been trying to reconcile my Checking account, but I’m running into a
> problem.  The reconcile window displays a negative amount as the opening
> balance. I didn’t enter an opening balance when  creating the account. After
> obtaining my bank’s statement and gathering the open balance as stated. I
> went to enter an opening balance in the” Equity:Opening Balances” account
> and it accepted the entry just fine. I then checked the opening balance in
> my checking account and it displayed the opening balance as I entered in the
> equity account.  When I go to reconcile the Checking account, the reconcile
> window displays my opening balance as a different amount than the one I
> entered, and there is no option (that I can find, and yes I did RTFM)to
> alter the opening Balance.
>
>   
>
> Why doesn’t a user have the option to correct an opening balance in the
> reconcile window? This issues messes up every reconcile operation that
> follows. I hope you (the community) can help
>
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>
> OS: Windows10
>
> GC version: 2.6.18
>
> Build: git rev 3a9fbb8+ on 2017-10-08
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>   
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Carmelo Pagan
>
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