[GNC] Is there a way to find date & time a transaction was entered?

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 12/18/22 17:14, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> I have a transaction that I entered incorrectly. Is there a way to
> determine the date & time that the transaction was entered? If so, I could
> just load a backup file created just before I screwed up.
It is easier to just correct the original transaction.
> I know that in formal accounting one should not delete transactions, but
> apply a reversing transaction. But I think that will just confuse me, and
> my accountant more. I don’t need to be too formal - previously I have
> submitted my accounts to my accountant on a spreadsheet, but that’s too
> error-prone for my liking.

If you were doing this for somebody else then that would be the "proper" 
route.  But, if this is just personal or for your own business, then 
just erase the bad part and make the correction. It's digital and nobody 
will know you made a mistake (unless the look at all the log files that 
you failed to delete).

>   If I delete the transaction, would that put things back exactly as they
> were before the transaction was entered?

Yup, by why be that hard on yourself?

> I spent about 20 minutes last night trying to understand how £14 had
> disappeared from the company bank account, clearly marked in the bank
> account that the money went to PayPal, but there was no record of the
> transaction on the company PayPal account.  I eventually found what had
> happened - it had gone to my personal PayPal account. There’s no way I
> would have spotted that error using spreadsheets. The double entry
> accounting does make finding errors easier than using a spreadsheet.

Personally, I would just go to that one line and change the account from 
paypal personal to paypal company.
> I must admit, I am quite impressed with GnuCash.
>
> Dave

Me too.  And I'm also lazy so I just do the minimum needed to fix my 
mistakes.

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