[GNC] Reconciliation screw-up

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 6/16/2021 11:09 PM, Jeff wrote:
> I may confuse myself even more here, so would appreciate some patience 
> and guidance.
> I was given bank statements for 2 accounts (A and C).  Unbeknownst to 
> me there was a transaction that was supposed to go from account A to C 
> (A $1 -> C $1).  When the entries were made, the transactions were 
> entered as
>
> A $1 -> B $1
> and
> C $1 -> D $1
>
> Accounts B and D never get reconciled.  Accounts A and C do, and are 
> now.  What would be the simplest way to correct this error? 

SIMPLEST or most correct/formal?

The SIMPLEST way would be to edit the first and delete the second.

But in proper bookkeeping you do not delete past transactions nor edit 
them (fixing this way WHILE you are in the process of entering 
transactions is another matter.. I'll do it if still in the session). 
Instead you enter correction transaction(s).

In THIS case would be a transaction B->C correcting the first 
(description referring back to the first and indication a correction 
transaction) and a transaction D->C reversing the second transaction 
(again with a suitable description). That leaves an audit trail of the 
correction(s)

Michael D Novack


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