bank entries

[Christine]

Thank you

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:derek at ihtfp.com] 
Sent: 27 November 2017 21:08
To: Christine
Cc: 'Christine via gnucash-user'; 'DaveC49'
Subject: RE: bank entries

HI,

On Mon, November 27, 2017 3:51 pm, Christine wrote:
> Hello
> Thank you to Derek for getting me the formal accounts. I have set up 
> my cash account but now I realise that I need an opening balance and 
> it seems I cannot address this at this late stage. I managed to 
> complete it for the bank. I have a cash equity account but I would 
> like the cash to go to the opening balance instead. Can anyone guide 
> me pls?

An O-B for an account is just a regular transaction between the account and Equity:Opening Balances dated before anything else.  You can just create that transaction by hand in the same way as you'd create your grocery transaction.

>
> Christine

-derek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: 27 November 2017 19:51
> To: Christine via gnucash-user
> Cc: 'DaveC49'; Christine
> Subject: Re: bank entries
>
> Christine,
>
> Christine  via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Dave
>> My accounts are Cash, Bank, Income, various expenses, and 2 people 
>> who I pay money too and who pay to the bank.
>> IF I balance one of the accounts another goes wrong. All I want to do 
>> is add my bank and my cash and let gnucash do the rest (ie an income 
>> and expenditure report) but it is not working. Reading the literature 
>> I just get confused as I am used to DR and CR.
>> Thanks anyway maybe I should look for an easier program if anyone 
>> knows of one
>
> Let's take a simple example of a grocery expense; you go to Kroger and 
> spend
> $25 from Cash.  To enter this in GnuCash you would open your Cash 
> account register, put in the date, Kroger in the description, then 
> Expenses:Groceries in the transfer column, and $25 in the Credit (or 
> Spend, or Withdrawal) column.
>
> Most likely your problem is that you are opening up the Cash account 
> and then putting the Cash account into the transfer account as well.
>
> I hope this helps?
>
>> Christine
>
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> -derek
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