If a mistake were made in a journal entry how would you go about fixing it?

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anonymous · Answer

clarify your question? what do you mean?

anonymous · Answer

For example, if I am enter an entry in a general journal, I realize I made a mistake. How would I attempt to make the correction in the general journal?

anonymous · Answer

well, i guess you could use like a red pen or something to edit your mistake.

anonymous · Answer

or whiteout! :D

anonymous · Answer

Ok. Thank you.

anonymous · Answer

Is this double entry accounting?
Why not just reverse the error?

anonymous · Answer

Yes. This is double entry accounting?

anonymous · Answer

So we don't really want rubbing out or red pens, we want a clear audit trail.

So write annotated entries to reverse the error and then do the entries correctly.

Then a third party can see what has happened.