If the wrong incorrect information has been entered into an Expenses Entry Expense or an Express Payment, you are able to reverse it provided the transaction has not yet been paid.
Reversing Incorrect Entries
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If an Expense has the Status of "Paid" or "Partially Paid" the payment must be reversed before the expense can be reversed. Refer to Reversing a Payment for assistance. Express Payment entries will automatically reverse the expense and payment journals. |
- Go to the Expense menu, select then click Expense Search.
- Search for the incorrect expense that you wish to reverse.
Highlight the line and click the
Reverse button.
This will bring up a warning boxA warning pop-up message will appear. If you are sure you want to reverse this entry, click OK.
- Check
On the reversal entry displayed, check all details are correct.
- Enter a Reversal Reason
- Click Save to action the Reversal.
- If you don't want to reverse the transaction, click Cancel to exit this screen.
- (Unsure if this is still the case) If the period in which the incorrect Express Payment Entry was entered has been closed, it must be corrected by Journal entry. See Processing Journal Entries for information on how to complete this. The journal will take the following form:
DR: Bank account the expense was paid from for the full amount of the expense CR: Expense account entry originally expensed to for the amount net of GST, ensure tax category is 'Not Applicable'
CR: GST Tax Paid for any GST, ensure tax category is 'Not Applicable' - If the period in which the incorrect Expense Entry was entered has been closed, it must be corrected by processing a negative Expense Entry. The original entry must be reversed exactly with a minus sign '-' in front of the Amount Payable and the amount in the allocation grid
Note that only open periods can be posted into. If the expense was in a prior period, the reversal entry will default to the current period.
- Enter a Reversal Reason.
- Click Save to post the reversal.
In Expense Search, the original expense will now show a Status of "Reversed", and the reversal entry shows the Status of "Reversal".