Restart accounting - Enter unrestricted account values

[cbrown]

I had to restart accounting after becoming treasurer and I have two questions:
1. I have entered current balances in all our TR and PR accounts during the restart, but how do I enter the current account balances in unrestricted? the restart function does not all you to enter unrestricted amounts and there are existing $ in those accounts. The former treasurer was entering lots of data incorrectly. How do I get current unrestricted account $ into the new setup?
2. Ditto with expenses.

This is probably incredibly simple and intuitive, but for the life of me I can’t figure it out. Since I have our bookkeepers on hold with entering contributions and producing annual contribution statements your answer will be extremely helpful and timely. Thanks again for your help.

[NeilZ]

I had to restart accounting after becoming treasurer and I have two questions:
1. I have entered current balances in all our TR and PR accounts during the restart, but how do I enter the current account balances in unrestricted? the restart function does not all you to enter unrestricted amounts and there are existing $ in those accounts. The former treasurer was entering lots of data incorrectly. How do I get current unrestricted account $ into the new setup?
2. Ditto with expenses.

This is probably incredibly simple and intuitive, but for the life of me I can’t figure it out. Since I have our bookkeepers on hold with entering contributions and producing annual contribution statements your answer will be extremely helpful and timely. Thanks again for your help.

I'm going to assume that you're using the Accouting Setup Wizard/Assistant to do this. If not, you really should do that rather than try to do this all yourself. The system is smart enough to properly populate the accounts.

As far as a hold on the Annual Statements or entering Contributions, there is no need. The Contributions data is completely separate from Accounting. You can run the statements without an issue, and enter Contributions, just don't POST them.

[cbrown]

Neil - I talked with Jason in Tech Support and got fantastic help. He found that when I created the equity accounts that were missing I made the error of deleting them from the investment accounts, which caused the huge negative unrestricted net asset problem. Once I recreated the 1300-level investment accounts my problem was solved. I also received help from Jason in better understanding how things fit together in PC. Thanks to him and you for all the help. I was ready to push the "restart" again, and I would have ended up with the same problem. Whew!

[NeilZ]

Neil - I talked with Jason in Tech Support and got fantastic help. He found that when I created the equity accounts that were missing I made the error of deleting them from the investment accounts, which caused the huge negative unrestricted net asset problem. Once I recreated the 1300-level investment accounts my problem was solved. I also received help from Jason in better understanding how things fit together in PC. Thanks to him and you for all the help. I was ready to push the "restart" again, and I would have ended up with the same problem. Whew!

I had a feeling about those investment accounts ...