Beginning Balances and Other Setup Issues: Difference between revisions
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There are two ways to correct beginning balances. If the correction is simple, click Auditor, then go to View Journal, select the Beginning Balances (usually right at the top, always dated 12/1/1994), and make your corrections. |
There are two ways to correct beginning balances. If the correction is simple, click Auditor, then go to View Journal, select the Beginning Balances (usually right at the top, always dated 12/1/1994), and make your corrections. |
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If you need to add additional lines to the Beginning Balance transaction, it is often easier to delete the beginning balances (select it in View Journal and type Delete on your keyboard), then add new beginning balances. Go to Tables / GeneralInfo, and change the NextStep column to "3". Close back out to the front end, click the NextStep "Enter Beginning Balances", and enter the new Beginning Balance transaction. |
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However, it is possible to add account lines to a beginning balance transaction in the back end. First, go to Auditor / View Journal, find the Beginning Balances, and find its JournalID by hovering over the left-hand column. Close View Journal, and go to Tables / Accounts and find the AccountID of the account you need to add to the Beginning Balances. Go to Tables / JournalItems, and in the last line, type in the JournalID, AccountID, and Amount. Leave the JournalItemID blank. Then go back to the front end and verify that you did what you intended to do. |
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Revision as of 16:03, 30 April 2026
Correcting Beginning Balances
There are two ways to correct beginning balances. If the correction is simple, click Auditor, then go to View Journal, select the Beginning Balances (usually right at the top, always dated 12/1/1994), and make your corrections.
If you need to add additional lines to the Beginning Balance transaction, it is often easier to delete the beginning balances (select it in View Journal and type Delete on your keyboard), then add new beginning balances. Go to Tables / GeneralInfo, and change the NextStep column to "3". Close back out to the front end, click the NextStep "Enter Beginning Balances", and enter the new Beginning Balance transaction.
However, it is possible to add account lines to a beginning balance transaction in the back end. First, go to Auditor / View Journal, find the Beginning Balances, and find its JournalID by hovering over the left-hand column. Close View Journal, and go to Tables / Accounts and find the AccountID of the account you need to add to the Beginning Balances. Go to Tables / JournalItems, and in the last line, type in the JournalID, AccountID, and Amount. Leave the JournalItemID blank. Then go back to the front end and verify that you did what you intended to do.
Note: If you change the beginning balance of a bank account, you must also go to Tables / BankRecs and correct the beginning balance there.