"correcting" transactions

[Derek Atkins]

John Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> writes:

> Wow!  Instead of addressing the issue , let's divert the attention and
> attack the messenger.  Just to get ME out of the way, I am the owner
> of my small corp., I do my own general ledger level (all but
> subsidiary A/R) accounting and I don't need to submit my reports to
> the outside world.  Therefore I don't fall into the area of concern.
>
> My concern is one of professionalism of the gc product.  "Audits" and
> "formal controls" are probably outside the concern of most users, as
> they are more directed to public corps. or multiple shareholder
> entities.
>
> Going down the path of edits and deletions of existing transactions
> makes the historical data unreliable.  The transaction did occur. It
> was edited because _____________.  This happened last year, remember?
>
> Open source/free is not a license to providing a bad product.  If
> nothing else, the documentation should  indicate that "there is no
> audit trail.  The transactions can be edited.  If you are not
> comfortable with this, THEN this is not the accounting program for
> you".
>
> Signed,
>
> The Messenger

I look forward to your patch to address this issue!!!

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-derek

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