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In any decent accounting system, you cannot accidentally modify anything after it's written. It's a log system, you can only append. If gnucash doesn't do that
by groby_b 7y ago
In any decent accounting system, you cannot accidentally modify anything after it's written. It's a log system, you can only append.
If gnucash doesn't do that, I'd consider it disqualified for any kind of accounting.
- BeetleB 7y agoNot an accountant, but that would suck more than not having undo. Real accountants may be very diligent. The average user (even tech user) is going to make tons of mistakes while entering data. I've often found when reconciling accounts that I put a transaction in the wrong account and I fix it.
- groby_b 7y agoYou can still do that. It's just a move from one account to the other. "Undo" is booking the transaction in reverse. It's fine if that's automated, the point is that it's recorded in the first place. (OK, I misspent my youth as an assistant to an accountant. With actual hand-written ledger books. Maybe I am super-picky about these things :)
- mNovak 7y agothis is true of GnuCash, but only after a transaction is marked as reconciled