undo close books?

[Fred Bone]

On 4 October 2013 at 14:39, Mike Evans said:

> On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:59:01 -0400
> Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:
> 
> > Geoff Jankowski wrote:
> > 
> > >William
> > >
> > >I confess I take a different view.  On my VT accounts package I lock
> > >each year.  If I try to enter something in a prior year I get a message
> > >and if I really want to make the change I can but it serves as a good
> > >reminder not to mess with prior year accounts.  I do not see this as an
> > >accountant demand but a user discipline aid for those of us that run
> > >our own business and accounts.  We are so busy trying to make money
> > >that we do not have time to be accounting principles experts as well.
> > >
> 
> If your transactions up to year end have been reconciled then attempting
> to change a reconciled transaction/split will pop up a warning stating:
> 
> "You are about to change a split that is linked to a reconciled split.
> Doing so might make future reconciliation difficult! Continue with this
> change?"
> 
> Would this serve the same purpose as a reminder not to alter the data?

What it would *not* do is prevent you accidentally entering a fresh txn 
dated last year (e.g. hitting ctrl-minus when you meant to hit 
shift-minus - as I have done once or twice).

However, if you close the books then such txns can be found quite easily. 
Just re-close for the same date. If there are no "extra" txns then no 
further closing (zeroing) txn will be created. Otherwise, a closing txn 
will be created with splits to the accounts concerned and with the 
opposite-in-sign value. With this information, it should be simple to 
find the erroneous txns.