You can generally edit an incorrect transaction and just change the details which are incorrect including the account in whose register it appears if that happened to be incorrect
There is no problem with deleting a transaction in GnuCash. The formal accounting method is basically a hangover when rubbing an entry out in a pen and paper book created a fairly ugly mess (and made it exceedingly obvious that the books had been altered) and left no trail as to why the changes were made. This is easy for non business feature transaction. Just select the transaction in the register then select Transaction->Delete from the menu. Where transactions are created using the business features it is a little more complicated. Payments to invoices are linked to the invoice so you would need to delete the payment transactions first,and unpost the invoice and then delete the information content (customer,details and amount etc). An invoice or bill cannot be deleted from the system, once created it will always exist, but an existing uposted invoice from which the information has been deleted can be reused by refilling in the new information and then reposting it. David Cousens On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 01:14 +0000, 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. > > 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 I delete the transaction, would that put things back exactly as they > were before the transaction was entered? > > 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. > > I must admit, I am quite impressed with GnuCash. > > Dave _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
