Once a charge matters financially, correcting the source must leave an explicit trail instead of rewriting history.
Track
Owner Access Balances
Phase
Correction branch
Starts with
Financially significant charge is wrong
Ends with
Explicit corrected outcome preserved
Usage or commercial context was wrong after a charge was reviewed, linked to a bill or settled. The correction must respect the financial state and preserve both the original and the resulting outcome.
Ops or Accounts identifies a charge that should be corrected, reversed or voided.
The current state determines whether correction, reversal or void is appropriate.
Reviewed, billed, paid or voided rows cannot silently become open again.
This is the key moment: the change is recorded as a correction, reversal or void rather than an invisible overwrite.
A posted financial effect is corrected in the financial system of record.
Management can see what changed, why and which balance now stands.
Reviews the operational source and starts the appropriate correction.
Owns any reversal or accounting adjustment after posting.
Reviews the preserved original and corrected balance history.
Protects significant rows and preserves the original trace.
Original source, financial state and explicit correction together
Why: Correct operations without erasing history.
The posted effect and required financial adjustment
Why: Keep accounting truth aligned with the corrected outcome.
Original and corrected balance history
Why: Trust that historical totals were not silently rewritten.
Reviewed or settled financial rows change only through an explicit correction, never through ordinary usage editing.