Re: [SL] Altering transactions after they are flagged as reconciled

[david <da...@ke...>]

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 14:11 +0000, Kevin Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When going through the reconcilliation there are times when this shows 
> me that an error has occured.
> 
> So sometime I have to delete a transaction.
> 
> If this has not been reconciled can I presume that this will not have 
> any effect.
> 
> What happens if I accidentally delete a transaction which has been set 
> as reconciled?

I finished my quarterly reconciliations about an hour ago, so it's all
very fresh :-)

If you alter or delete any transaction that's been previously
reconciled, the reconciliation will need to be done again (pretty
reasonable really). As a matter of good practice, I always check the old
reconciliation before starting a new period. 

If you delete or alter any transaction from AFTER the period that has
been reconciled, there is no effect at all.

I believe an accountant would tell you that deleting/changing
transactions after reconciliation is a BAD_IDEA (tm). I do it all the
time, but then I'm not an accountant so it's OK. You can use audit
control to lock transactions (somebody correct me if I'm wrong?), but
that's for people who do the job properly.