“It looks like your starting balances on cash-basis and accrual-basis are the same so no change to your starting balances required.”
This is good news 
Dear @lubos , I still havent got the fixed related your changes. What should I do now ? Start date really needed for cut off transaction.
Hi @lubos,
Now that it’s established that the software can work fine without the start date built-in at it’s core, can we please have some cosmetic implementation for it?
What I mean is this: Can we have it as a built-in field within, say, Business Details setting where it can be used to replace 01/01/0001 wherever possible.
Example:
The start date would be a more accurate description than 01/01/0001, don’t you agree?
I disagree. Seeing a 01/01/0001 date clearly signals something is wrong. Seeing a start date you entered would imply some significance when there was none.
@Ealfardan when you Edit summary screen, the period should be properly set
This is affecting Customs Reports
you may check this subject
the system will only capture Starting balance in customs report only if we add 01/01/0001 as start date