[GNC] Newby questions opening accounts

[Geoff]

Hi Peter, and welcome to the GnuCash world.

Q1.
The recommended practice is to create an Equity::Opening Balances 
account and use that as the contra-account for all your opening balance 
entries.  It won't be a problem doing this after you have started 
entering other transactions, just choose an appropriate date.
Further details here: 
https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/txns-puttoget1.html

Q2.
I'll leave for someone else to answer.

Q3.
If you are referring to the main "Accounts" tab, you can sort (within 
the account hierarchy) by clicking on the column heading, by:
Account Code, Name, Description, or even Notes
P.S.  To expose / hide columns, click on the triangle on the far right 
side of the column headings.

Some of the reports have sorting options too.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Geoff
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On 16/01/2021 4:53 pm, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've recently volunteered to take over as treasurer of a non-profit. The
> previous treasurer was keeping his accounts with a different (tty-based)
> system and I wanted to try Gnucash instead.
> 
> 1. After having set up my accounts, I looked at the documentation and saw
> that Opening Balances are supposed to be entered when accounts are first
> created. Is there a workaround, or do I have to go through the whole
> account setup process again? And what do you do if you make a mistake! (No
> transactions have been made so far.)
> 
> 2. I wanted to keep Equity under Liabilities (only because the previous
> treasurer was doing this), but after I put it there (with the Opening
> Balances subaccount beneath it), GnuCash created a top-level Opening
> Balances account. When I delete it, it comes back. Is there a way I can use
> the schema with Equity under Liabilities?
> 
> 3. Is there a way to set the top-level display order of accounts other than
> by using the "optional" account numbering scheme and ordering by the
> numbers?
> 
> Thank you,
> -P.
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