[GNC] Opening Balance on Reports

[david whiting]

What I do is add a transaction on the first date of the new period with the
transaction reference "Balance carried forward" with nothing in the
credit/debit columns. Then a transaction report with running balance has
"Balance carried forward" as the first transaction and the running balance
shows the amount carried forward. See attached example (our club financial
year runs from 1st August to 31st July).

David

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, 23:17 Michael or Penny Novack, <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 1/2/2020 5:33 PM, Christopher Lam wrote:
> > If it's a single-creditor liability account, you could try adding the
> > Display/Running Balance. However it doesn't quite give you the 'balance
> > brought forward' prior to the first printed transaction.
> >
> I will tell you how I would do this. It would be easy for me, because I
> don't insist that that the final printed version be printed from within
> gnucash.
>
> I would use the suggestion above, but set the date range to include the
> last transaction before. I would export the resulting report.. I would
> then edit the date of that last transaction to be the start date, change
> its description to "opening balance" and it's amount to zero/blank << it
> is the running balance after this transaction that is the starting
> balance >>
>
> I would then print THAT (or send THAT by electronic means
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
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