adding previous transactions

[Jonathan Silvey]

Hi Christopher,
Sorry, I can't follow your first sentence. What does 'hard-code the Opening
Balance' and 'write it freetext' mean?

Ditto HTH?!

Jonathan

*Think before you print.*

On 16 January 2017 at 05:21, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Potentially messy yes
> But you'll really want to hard-code the Opening Balance along the way. I
> usually write it freetext.
> Later on if I add prior transactions, the balance value is still visible:
> (In practice, once I've added the prior transactions, the running balance
> should match the equity statement, and I then *delete* the equity
> transaction).
>
> [image: Inline images 1]
>
> On 16 January 2017 at 11:27, David via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> > Aleksey,
> >
> > Welcome.
> >
> > The short answer to your question is "yes," but there are challenges. You
> > have to recalculate the opening balance for the earlier date and either
> > edit or replace the existing entry. Then you have to add in the
> intervening
> > transactions. Finally, if you've reconciled your account, you will need
> to
> > redo that.
> >
> > None of this is technically tough, but in practice (I've tried it) the
> > details get messy, and if you get one thing wrong, you can spend a long
> > time tracking it down.
> >
> > HTH,
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: ar <ar123456 at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Mon Jan 16 05:34:00 GMT+05:00 2017
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: adding previous transactions
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am setting up gnucash and I amusing current opening balance values. I
> > suppose I have at least year worth of previous data from my bank and
> credit
> > card companies. Can I add old transactions later on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aleksey
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