# Accounts receivable starting balances

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**Created:** [June 13, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/accounts-receivable-starting-balances/54261 "2024-06-13T09:33:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![eko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@eko](https://forum.manager.io/u/eko)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/accounts-receivable-starting-balances/54261/16 "2024-06-14T15:03:09Z")

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Seven days ago @Lubos posted

> [@Moving from different accounting software - How to set starting balances?](https://forum.manager.io/t/moving-from-different-accounting-software-how-to-set-starting-balances/54127/4):
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> Typically it would be one journal entry that would debit and credit those accounts. Well, not really. Things can get complicated. For customer starting balances, you need to enter unpaid sales invoices separately anyway. If you don’t then once invoices get paid, then your figures on cash-basis won’t be accurate. But even if you don’t use cash-basis reporting, it’s still nice to be able to issue customer their statement with list of unpaid invoices from day 1 of using Manager. For inventory it…

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