Reclassifying Transactions: Generated Transactions

Suppose that by mistake you have specified a wrong account in the AP bill. Now you need to reclassify the wrong journal entry by creating a correcting transaction, so that the amount will be moved to the correct account.

The following table shows the journal entries of the original GL transaction of the Normal type.

Account Debit Credit
Accounts Payable account 00.00 Amount
Expense account 1 Amount 00.00

The following table shows the journal entries of the correcting GL transaction of the Reclassification type.

Account Debit Credit
Expense account 1 00.00 Amount
Expense account 2 Amount 00.00