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[Maf. King]

On Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:15:35 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> I forgot to mention that *if* you are not concerned with who the balances
> forward are owed by/to, then you can carefully enter manual balance forward
> transactions between AR/AP and Equity:Opening Balances.
> 
> Generally, you don’t want to make manual entries to these AR/AP accounts,
> but if you are aware of the consequences, then you can proceed. (the
> consequences are that the Business features will not be cognizant of those
> entries, and with this method, you’ll have no way to see exactly who you
> owe that AP balance to, or who owes you the balance of your Receivables.
> But this is a simpler option for some special cases)
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 

Hi,

similar to Adrien's approach, I would perhaps suggest just making the opening 
balance transaction, but doing it on a "fake" invoice (number zero or 
something) that just brings in the total owed.  Date it before the current FY 
start.  

I've been bitten by making manual entries an AR and I wouldn't do it again.

HTH,
Maf.



> > On Jun 19, 2019, at 5:11 AM, Adrien Monteleone
> > <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Patricia,
> > 
> > Unfortunately, there is no easy method for those.
> > 
> > 1. Your choices are to enter the outstanding history for each, which can
> > be done manually, each invoice/bill at a time, or by importing a CSV. 2.
> > Creating a starting bill/invoice for each containing the respective
> > balance forward amounts.
> > 
> > The advantage to #1 is seamless tracking of bills and invoices, especially
> > with respect to aging reports. The advantage to #2 is time saved, but at
> > the expense of the advantages to #1.
> > 
> > If you have more than say, a dozen or so bills/invoices total, then I’d
> > opt for the CSV approach as it will save you some time. Check the
> > Documentation for the proper columns you’ll need for the file.
> > 
> > Otherwise, you can get lots of practice entering bills and invoices, which
> > doesn’t hurt either. (except maybe your fingers)
> > 
> > I’m not familiar with employee vouchers, but I would think the basic
> > approach would be the same.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> > 
> >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 10:18 AM, Patricia Reid <preid2340 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hello, My name is Patricia.  I have been doing a small business’
> >> bookkeeping manually.  I have been able to set up the general ledger
> >> accounts and bring the balances forward, however, I cannot figure out
> >> how to do that with the customer’s balance forward, nor the vendor
> >> balances forward as well as the employee balances.
> >> 
> >> If someone could assist me I would greatly appreciate that
> >> 
> >> Patricia Reid
>