In finance and accounting, the "Opening Balance" is the starting amount in a financial account at the beginning of an accounting period, like a month or a fiscal year. It represents the leftover balance from the previous period and serves as the foundation for all subsequent financial activities.Opening Balance: A Cornerstone of Financial Management
In finance and accounting, the "Opening Balance" is the starting amount in a financial account at the beginning of an accounting period, like a month or a fiscal year. It represents the leftover balance from the previous period and serves as is the foundation for all subsequent financial activities.
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When a customer decides to migrate to Ginesys ERP for their business and wants to maintain even the books of accounts in the ERP then there is a need to upload the Opening balances in the ERP. If the company is new and is partnering with Ginesys ERP from Day 01 then the very first day of their operations then, in such case, there is no need to upload Opening Balance.
In the articles article given below user would be able to understand:
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Opening Balance is uploaded for the Company (OU level).
It could be done only in the first accounting year (Y Code = 2), in other year system auto transfer the balances and users can only view the subsequent opening balances.
If a new OU/Company is created in the middle of the year or in some later period then also opening balance need needs to be uploaded in the first accounting year and then balance transfer need needs to be done to bring the applicable balance in the current year (We have Ginesys has a common accounting year master).
Opening balance could only be saved when Debit and Credit Amount is reconciled.
User can upload the opening balance at sub ledgers and site level, but unless the GL wise total Debit and Credit amount is not reconciled, system would not allow to save the opening balance
Opening Documents uploaded will have no financial impact and will get uploaded in Y code=1 (system defined year).
Reason being: These document could be made available for adjustment in subsequent period and account posting is already done via sub ledger balance upload
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