Adjusting Transactions

Sage Simply Accounting provides two ways to make corrections to transactions: adjustments and reversals.

The adjustment feature allows you to correct transactions after they have been processed, without having to record two entries in your company ledger. Sage Simply Accounting automatically reverses the original transaction and enters the corrected transaction in one step, behind the scenes.

View a list of transactions you can adjust in the current and previous fiscal years

In order for automatic adjustments to work, the details of the original transaction must be available in your company data. You cannot make adjustments if you have cleared the transaction details or deleted the vendor, employee, or customer record. You also cannot adjust transactions in cash-basis accounting. 

If you ever need to find adjustment details, display the appropriate Transaction report. Make sure you select the Corrections box in the Modify Report window. Adjustments can be easily identified by their comments.

Explanation of reversal comments

Notes:

• You cannot modify the customer or vendor names on these transactions: sales invoices created from existing sales orders or quotes.
• Credit notes are generated when you adjust sales and purchase invoices that have already been fully or partially paid.
• You cannot reverse transactions that cannot be adjusted in the program.
• If you want to update the inventory quantities in Sage Simply Accounting after adjusting a payment or receipt, you should adjust the original purchase or sales invoice.
• To record an NSF cheque from a customer, you should reverse the receipt.

What do you want to do?

Adjust a transaction

Reverse a transaction

Reverse an NSF cheque from a customer