[GNC] Transaction inconsistency when deleting account

[Michael or Penny Novack]

>
> Let's not to discuss whether it's a good idea or not to delete an 
> account that contains transactions.  It's a valid user function in GC 
> to delete a non-empty account.


Whether a "valid user function" or not depends on the level of 
formality. In other words, your accounting "standards".

Some of us will have chosen "never delete a transaction". Notice that 
this most closely models "pen and ink on paper (bound volumes, why we 
call them "books"). You got rid of a transaction only by entering an 
offsetting/correcting transaction.

Some of us will delete transactions entered in error but only in the 
current session. In other words, once the session ended we would later 
correct as above. Keep in mind that possibly the correction is being 
made months later.

Some of us will change transactions in our books willy nilly. We are 
going by informal accounting rules.


Now to the specific case << a BATCH of transactions imported 
incorrectly. If I understand correctly, debits and credits reversed? >> 
If asked by the person BEFORE any actions had been taken I would have 
asked some questions before suggesting how to fix. Questions like:

How much work have you done since this import?

How much work did you do before this import? (that is, since the last 
back-up)

If the answer to both of those is "none" I would have suggested 
abandoning the session in which the erroneous input was done (restore 
from just before).

Michael D Novack