# Chart of accounts

**URL:** <https://forum.manager.io/t/chart-of-accounts/8199>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 2, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/chart-of-accounts/8199 "2017-01-02T11:35:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Halim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Halim](https://forum.manager.io/u/Halim)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/chart-of-accounts/8199/1 "2017-01-02T11:35:02Z")

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What’s the differences between “Capital Accounts” and " Starting balance equity" on chart of accounts ?

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**Author:** ![Tut](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/tut/32/3286_2.png) [@Tut](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tut)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/chart-of-accounts/8199/2 "2017-01-02T15:01:38Z")

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`Capital Accounts` is a functional module the allows you to create capital accounts and members (who own capital accounts). Starting balance equity is an automatically created account that usually signals a problem with your entries. Under most circumstances, it should not be there. You will have to provide much more information about the situation before anyone can help you determine whether it should be there in your situation. Screen shots will probably be necessary.

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**Author:** ![Halim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Halim](https://forum.manager.io/u/Halim)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/chart-of-accounts/8199/3 "2017-01-02T16:11:08Z")

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Dear Tut

thank your reply.  
kindly find on below the screen shot.  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/2X/a/a21fbc37dbea0f36e39e22eec411941d8c33747b.PNG)

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**Author:** ![Tut](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/tut/32/3286_2.png) [@Tut](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tut)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/chart-of-accounts/8199/4 "2017-01-02T16:43:10Z")

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The first step is to click on the 200,000,00 balance for Starting balance equity to see what contributes to that balance. Also, did you have an ongoing business before using Manager? If so, did you set a Start Date? And were there accounts with balances carried forward?

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**Author:** ![Brucanna](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/brucanna/32/1960_2.png) [@Brucanna](https://forum.manager.io/u/Brucanna)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/chart-of-accounts/8199/5 "2017-01-02T17:32:19Z")

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As mentioned, your Starting Balances are out of balance by 200,000.  
Go to Reports - General Ledger - Starting Balances and that report should be a duplicate of your last Balance Sheet prior to starting with Manager.

That is, if that Balance Sheet shows bank with 10,000 then the Starting Balances report should show the bank with 10,000. Do the same matching for all the other Balance Sheet accounts.

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**Author:** ![Ealfardan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/ealfardan/32/63166_2.png) [@Ealfardan](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ealfardan)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/chart-of-accounts/8199/6 "2023-01-18T15:29:23Z")

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