Is there a way to set an account's beginning balance AFTER having created it in GnuCash?

[John R. Sowden]

A thought,

I never, or just the last 40 years, make a beginning entry in account 
creating.  Sometimes I set up my next year before I have closed out my 
previous year, so I don't have the final transactions for the Asset, 
Liability and Equity accounts.  I have a list of opening balance 
transactions for those accounts. which I create each year, whether the 
amounts are zero or not. Keeps me in control vs. the program.

John


On 07/28/2017 11:48 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> Bob,
>
> The Opening Balance shortcut that you see when creating an account is not
> functional after the account is created, as you have seen.
>
> That shortcut just creates a transaction to offset the opening balance with
> an entry in Equity:Opening Balances.  You can open that account and
> duplicate any previous  entry changing the transfer account to a different
> account to create an opening balance in another account.
>
> David C
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:33 PM, <bobaug at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I’ve searched the help and can’t find anything that addresses this
>> question.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Bob
>>
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