REVERSING TRANSACTIONS

Maf. King maf at chilwell.net
Fri Apr 21 11:16:30 EDT 2017


On Friday, 21 April 2017 15:35:20 BST Jonathan Silvey wrote:
> Can anyone tells me where I can find out what a 'reversing transaction' is?
> I find the Help guides unhelpful because you can't use Control-F to find a
> phrase.
> 

Hi Jonathan,

In formal accounting, you never delete a transaction.  If you make a mistake, 
you use a reversing transaction to counter your error and re-enter the correct 
version.

Others may be able to expand on that a bit more.

HTH,
Maf.





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