[moneydance] voiding checks..

[Roz Wild]

Alternatively, leave the transaction unchanged, but then insert a reversing
transaction for the same category. This way you have an audit trail, but all
your totals will be okay.

roz


On 18/06/2008, Gordon Alley <gordon at gordonalley.com> wrote:
>
> If you leave the transaction amount unchanged, you have to be careful in
> reports to either omit VOID transactions or flag them in some obvious way.
> Lacking a special VOID action, if it is necessary to retain the details of
> a
> voided transaction, one can just edit the transaction to set the quantity
> to
> zero, and change the description and/or memo to add "VOIDED" and the
> amount.
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Robert Aries <robandali2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Edward Reid wrote:
> > > At 12:45 06/09/08 -0700, Rick Flower wrote:
> > >
> > >> How do you void a check in MD?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I used to miss Quicken's one-step void, but I'm using so few checks now
> > > that I probably only do a void a couple of times a year, if that. So
> just
> > > changing the payee to VOID and the amount to zero is plenty easy for
> me.
> > > AFAIK that's all the one-step void in Quicken did.
> > >
> > > Edward
> > >
> > I also do not void very often but when I do I would like to retain an
> > audit trail of exactly what I voided. In MSMoney it was possible to
> > indicate with the 'clear' indicator that the check was voided. The
> > amount was not changed but it no longer affected the account totals.
> > This seemed to be a straight forward and simple method.
> > Robert.
> >
> > --
> Gordon B. Alley
> http://www.gordonalley.com
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