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ValidateErrorError occurred while validating the field(s) journal_id: You cannot create more than one move per period on a centralized journal.
I gather this is because the "Opening Entries Journal" has the option "Centralized Counterpart" checked. But I have no idea what this means. What's a "counterpart" in this context? What's a "centralized journal"? What's a "move"?
Here's how I'd expect opening balances to work, and maybe someone can tell me how I might do it differently:
I'd expected I would make journal entries in a journal and period designated for opening entries. Each of these entries will debit or credit one account, and these will be balanced by an opposite debit or credit to a special equity account I have created, "39999 - Opening Balance Equity". When I'm done making all my entries, and all the numbers match the 2012 closing documents, then the balance of "Opening Balance Equity" will be zero. When I'm satisfied everything balances, the opening balance equity account has zero balance, and the numbers match the 2012 closing statements, I can close the opening period.
Of course, this doesn't work if I can make only one entry in the opening journal. I'd want to make multiple entries because presently, we have a good idea what the balances will be, but until the 2012 books are closed, we may need to make adjustments. Yet, we have 2013 business that needs to happen now.
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