Debtors (Clients) Opening Balances - how to add?

Question asked by Ricston Admin 10 years ago

I am starting the system for a financial period 30 June 2015 - 31 December 2015, so that all opening balances are dated 30th June (however our business was operational already before that). I have my management accounts ready for this date and in Balance sheet / Current Assets I have Accounts Receivables (outstanding payments from my Clients). I wanted to set an opening balance for this account, but am not sure how to do it.

Should I set Debtors balance in Settings->Getting started->Debtors?

In that case system offers me to enter invoices. Should I enter outstanding invoices by Debtor/Client? What about those invoices that were already paid and ended up in Revenue (PL) and Bank Account (BS)? Where do I fill in my revenue/sales balance? Can I start with 30th June or should I go back to 1st of January 2015?

There is also an option in Sales->Customers to add Clients, but I haven't seen any field for opening balance in there.

Basically the same question goes to Creditors (Accounts Payables), I have something outstanding and some paid invoices - how do I enter balances?

Thank you very much for help!

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Hi Ricston,

I take it your actual financial reporting year runs from 1st Jan - 31st December, is there any particular reason you have decided to start from the 30th June?

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10 years ago

Dear John,

We are switching from another accounting system to Clearbooks and it seemed like a lot of work to insert transactions for the full year. So we decided to start from end of June - the date of our first management accounts.

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