Initialize the company and its departments balance from in "Accounting" tab under "Control Panel" box when configure the system. It is very important for accounting. It can just initialize balance one time for each month.

Get The Account Balance for one Company Unit

Choose one Company Unit to get the setup Account Balance screen. Set the balance of the account number. Initialize the balance is the process in the init system period. Press "Initialize Account Balance" button in Accounting tab. Go to the Setup Account Balance for one Company Unit

Setup Account Balance for one Company Unit

 
Edit the new balance of the account number, if the account number belongs to some Company Units, a dialog will show up to set the value for every Company Unit, and the total amount displays. Otherwise, if the account number only belongs to the default Company Unit, just edit it directly.
"Month to initialize" is the month of the balance which need to initialize in screen above. "Totals" is the amount which is summed by the each balance. It is red color if the total credit not equals total debit.
Actions can be taken:

• At the left bottom, the button "Fill zero for empty balances" set the new balance zero.
• At the left bottom, the button "Fill to Current balance" copy the current balance value to the new balance.
• At the right bottom, click the button "save", it will save the new balance data.
• Click "Cancel" button to close this page.

Make GL for initializing the Account Balance

This process runs in server. When press the "Save" button, compare the new balance to the old balance one by one, caculate the difference. Create a new GL for the difference. Debit side is the sum of debit differences, Credit side is the sum of credit differences.