[GNC] How to set a customer "opening balance" for the Customer Report

[Christopher Lam]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 14:45, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> However, I believe it's possible to accomplish the same thing by
> creating a transaction of this form, dated the day before the beginning
> of your first GC accounting period:
>
> Debit: AR:Customer 1 - Balance forward x.xx
> Debit: AR:Customer 2 - Balance forward y.yy
> Debit: AR:Customer 3 - Balance forward z.zz
>   (and so forth)
> Credit:Equity
>

I cannot comment on the accounting rigorousness of this entry, but I think
it is still advisable to *not* enter data directly into AP/AR account.

Perhaps best use the following method:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Business_Features_Issues#I_have_some_directly_entered_transactions_in_my_AR_I_don.27t_want_to_create_real_customers.2Finvoices.2Fpayments_for_via_the_business_features