Why posted entries should never be edited
An accountant asked us to let them fix a typo in a posted journal. We said no, and this is the long version of why: a correcting reversal tells a story that an edit erases.
Accounting arguments, implementation post-mortems and the occasional bug story. Written by whoever did the work.
An accountant asked us to let them fix a typo in a posted journal. We said no, and this is the long version of why: a correcting reversal tells a story that an edit erases.
A distributor reconciled to the shelf every quarter and still drifted. The cause was an approval flow that posted the requested quantity, not the approved one. Here is how we found it.
Getting WHT right on both sides of the ledger changes what your receivables actually mean. A walkthrough with real numbers.
Most of our users are not on a desktop. What that means for payload size, offline behaviour and how big a tap target has to be.
Two related ideas that get conflated, and why confusing them produces consolidated reports nobody trusts.
Batch tracking, promotions, general ledger at the point of sale and the finance module rebuild. What landed, what slipped and why.