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

[Adrien Monteleone]

That admonition is true for the special AR/AP accounts used by the Business Features.

Technically you *can* make manual entries there, but the various Business functions won’t be cognizant of them and if you aren’t careful you might forget you made them manually and then wonder later why reports and other info looks off.

You can certainly however create ‘Other AR/AP’ accounts and enter into them manually. These are especially useful where the Business Features don’t properly handle a situation or using them would be more work than a simple direct entry. These other accounts can also be children of the special AR/AP accounts.

The recommendation by Stan however is more work for something already implemented. (sans the ‘balance forward’ part)

Regards,
Adrien.

> On Oct 16, 2019 w42d289, at 10:05 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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