Bringing in bank balance from old system

The bank balances require a slightly different method of creating an “Opening Balance Entry”, you need to go to the “Setting” button for each account within “Banking” and enter your opening balance there (delete the entry made in the bank account), you will then see the correct opening balance without the need for “Tagging”.

If you have more than a single bank account with an opening balance these will also need entering. Each bank account with a balance will create a seperate journal. For a tidier start and to be able to reconcile to your Trial Balance from your old system to QF it is more practical to keep only one of these “Opening Balance Entry Jourmals” and transfer the details from the others to the one for keeping.

If you rename this single starting journal as your “Trial Balance” and then add your other nominals that have balances you will get an overall opening of your account in the one place.

An additional area that may need a little additional work for your opening balances maybe (1100) Debtors Control Account and (2100) Creditors Control Account, as these would need to be allocated to the relevant Client or Supplier to get these opening balances to match your trial balance, sort of similar to the way an opening balance is set for a bank account but for the clients and suppliers.