{"id":21331,"date":"2021-08-19T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigredcloud.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=21331"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:04:07","password":"","slug":"changing-or-deleting-transactions","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/bigredcloud.com\/en\/documents\/changing-or-deleting-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Or Deleting Transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All transactions can be changed or deleted except where Allocations is On and a transaction has been allocated to an Invoice or Payment.<\/p>\n<p>The Change and Delete facilities should be used with care in the accounting software.<\/p>\n<p>If, for example, a VAT Return has been made for a given period, changing amounts or deleting transactions would mean that an manual adjustment would be required in the next Return to account for the discrepancy.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, you should avoid making changes to Lodgement or Bank Payment amounts for any month\/period for which you have already successfully reconciled your bank account(s).<\/p>\n<p>In the case of voided cheques or cancelled Purchase\/Sales invoices you may prefer to change the entry to show zero amounts rather than delete the whole transaction. \u00a0This approach has the advantage of allowing the system to show a record of all reference numbers rather than having gaps in reference number sequences (<em>e.g.<\/em> a missing cheque number).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All transactions can be changed or deleted except where Allocations is On and a transaction has been allocated to an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[206],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21331","1":"docs","2":"type-docs","3":"status-publish","5":"doc_category-entering-transactions"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":159,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"apathak","author_nicename":"apathak","author_url":"https:\/\/bigredcloud.com\/en\/author\/apathak\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Entering Transactions","term_url":"https:\/\/bigredcloud.com\/en\/docs-category\/entering-transactions\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Changing Or Deleting Transactions - Big Red Cloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All transactions can be changed or deleted except where Allocations is On and a transaction has been allocated to an Invoice or Payment. 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