Sounds like you're creating your O-B txn as a Debit AND Credit to your Checking account. Don't do that. It's supposed to be a transaction between your Checking Account and Equity:Opening Balances
-derek On Thu, February 13, 2025 12:35 am, Gaya Erlandson wrote: > I put in all the info - every transaction, for the entire tax year 2024 > into GnuCash on my Mac and thought all was well. Then I saw that the > "Opening Balance" of my main checking account (under Equity) is 0 and then > spent the last 2+ hours trying to figure out how to add the opening > balance. I've even been consulting ChatGPT - to no avail. No matter how I > manually try to type in the Opening Balance for that checking account, it > automatically creates a "decrease" or debit for the same amount and I'm > back to 0 again - literally. > > I sure would appreciate some help - especially via a phone call. I'm in > the > Asheville area of North Carolina which is in the NY time zone. Could > someone contact me between the hours of 9am - 9pm, Eastern Standard Time? > > Kind regards, > Gaya > > Gaya Erlandson, PhD > Certified Imago Relationship Therapist > Consultant for Collaborative Community > 828-581-9036 > > *Whatever the Problem, Community is the Answer ~**Meg Wheatly* > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
