New user questions

[Colin Law]

On 19 June 2017 at 22:54, Wesley Vick <wesleyjvick at outlook.com> wrote:
> Greeting
>
> I am a 30 years veteran of Law Enforcement and I have been working part time with a security firm. I own my own police car, uniforms, equipment, etc. I have tried to produce my own records system until, I found your software. I have begin entering all my expenses since Jan 1 2017. I have finally finished entering all the expenses and entered the balance of my checking account. Here is my problem. All the receipts posted have already been paid. The balance of my checking account is what I have right now. After entering everything, I am showing a negative balance of $6,000.00. How can I fix the software to show the true balance and that is what is in the checking account. Can I go into Equity and maybe show starting balance of the negative $6,000 or do I need to go back to January and start entering all deposits that have been made?

If you do not need to record transactions prior to a certain date you
can enter a transaction right at the start to set the balance to
whatever it was at that time.

Don't forget to keep regular backups of your datafile
(something.gnucash) in case something goes wrong.

Colin