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

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Sun Oct 20 07:23:39 EDT 2019


Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> writes:

> On 2019-10-16 12:10, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> Also, the Opening Balance entry *is* editable, even in 2.6.x. I’ve
>> done it myself. It is just a regular transaction.
>
> I believe you, but I must say that that was very far from obvious to
> this new user. I couldn't understand why the Account dialog displayed an
> opening balance but wouldn't let me correct it. So I ended up making all
> my opening balance transactions myself, through General Ledger or one of
> the account registers.

The O-B entry in a New Account window is just a syntactic sugar for
creating a standard transaction between the account and Equity:Opening
Balances.  So after the account exists, you can just edit it.

Creating that O-B txn by hand is effectively the same thing, just in a
second step instead of in one step.  The end result is the same.

In short, there is nothing "special" about the O-B transaction created
by the New Account dialog.

-derek

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