[Kmymoney] work on previous year

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Sunday 05 February 2012 23:40:46 Allan wrote:

> On 05/02/12 21:37, hugo borrell wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > As I'm starting accounting on KMyMoney, I realise that whatever date of
> > creation given to my account (many years ago !, it is credited with the
> > "opening balance" I declared on the 01/01/2012 (instead of... let's say
> > 2000 !).
> > 
> > As my bank statement is from 5 to 5 (here 5/12/2011 - 5/01/2012) I just
> > can't reconciliate. I couldn't declare an opening balance on 
> > 5/12/2011...
> > 
> > What should be the correct way for this opening balance ?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Hugo
> 
> Edit the account and set its opening date to that of the earliest
> transaction.  When the account was first set up, the date should be
> entered then, but it's easily over-looked.

I just opened https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293430.  The workaround is 
to delete the opening balance transaction and re-edit the account. Then you 
can change the date and add the balance again which will create the necessary 
opening balance transaction with the correct date.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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