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How To Delete Accounting Transaction

How To showing how to delete accounting transactions.
  • Last Update:2016-02-09
  • Version:002
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The ability to delete a given Accounting Transaction depends of the state of the document. You can only delete 'Draft' transactions. Otherwise you will be able to 'Cancel' the document or even sometimes you wont be able to change anything on the transaction.

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The delete procedure

  1. Go to the Accounting module which will provide you a list of every transactions in this module.
  2. Select the Draft Accounting Transaction you wish to delete by clicking on the small square at the beginning of the line
  3. Click on the small red cross button in the action bar, which brings you to a confirmation dialog
  4. Click on 'Delete Objects' button to confirm

Once Draft Orders are deleted, you'll see a message in at the head of the list  displaying "Deleted."

The cancel procedure

  1. Go to the Accounting module which will provide you a list of every transactions in this module.
  2. Select the Accounting Transaction you wish to delete by clicking on the small square at the beginning of the line. You only can delete Transactions which are 'Draft', 'Journalised' and 'Posted to General Ledger'.
  3. Click on 'Action...' >> 'Change State', which brings you to a confirmation dialog
  4. Select the changes you want to make then click on 'Change State' button to confirm

This action can be performed one by one, using the same menu on each Transaction you wish to Cancel.

Transactions which can't be cancelled

Transactions which have been definitely closed (ie. Closed state) can't be cancelled. The only way is to create a reversal transaction:

  1. Go to the Closed transaction you wish to cancel
  2. Click on 'Action...' >> 'Create Reversal Transaction'
  3. Choose if you want to use negated quantities or not, click on 'Create Reversal Transaction'
  4. Check the transaction, then 'Action'

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