Question regarding documenting Reversing Transactions

[Edward Doolittle]

I agree, though the date format should depend on the date format setting or the OS preference for date formats.

I was going to say that the additional text (“Reverses ... dated ...”) could be added by the user if they wanted, but that argument is reversible (the user can delete the additional text), and it may be difficult to type in the date accurately if it has scrolled off the screen, for example.

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Sent: April 25, 2017 12:21 PM
To: David T.; Gnucash
Subject: RE: Question regarding documenting Reversing Transactions


    
David T,
My personal preference would be to   replace the line under the description with a comment similar to "Reverses transaction dated mm/dd/yyyy"
David C


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From: "David T. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Date: 4/25/17  8:34 AM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Subject: Question regarding documenting Reversing Transactions 

Hello, 

Recently, a question about Reversing Transactions was raised on the list, and a discussion about how and what GnuCash implemented this arose. In the process of testing out this feature (which I’ve never used), I noticed that the function creates an identical new transaction on the current date, but with the numbers on splits reversed. 

I found this to be a little confusing, as it was very difficult to tell after the fact in the books what had happened, since both transactions had exactly the same descriptions. I was wondering whether in “Old Style” accounting, accountants made any kind of annotation on the reversing transaction to indicate that the second transaction reversed the first. For example, if the first transaction was  “Pay George for work done,” would the reversing transaction say something like “Pay George for work done (REVERSE)” or something?

If so, then I might submit a bug to have this added to the reversing transaction feature, but if not, then I would let it drop.

TIA,
David
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