I don't know about everyone else, but about half the time I spend on bookkeeping is taken up chasing things I posted wrongly. My most common error is caused by haste - leaving a drop-down box with its default contents.
What I have done to simplify both remembering to make a correct entry and finding the omissions is this. I created an account right at the beginning of the table of accounts (I used number 0001, which comes up as plain 1) as a catch-all account. I made it AR_amount, AP_amount, AP_paid. I called it "P U T M E S O M E W H E R E", though it should be called 'transfer' or 'catch-all' or something. Now all the drop-down boxes have this distinctive name in them, and it is easy to see when one has not been properly entered before posting a form - even in haste. If I do mess up, all the errors are in one place: if there is a balance in account 1, there must be an error. So if you are as error-prone as I am, this may help. -- richard ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------- (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
