Messages Accounting can show

That invoice is not in the books.

An invoice has to name the customer it is raised on.

The receivables control account has not been set, so an invoice has nowhere to raise the customer’s debt. Set it in Accounting settings.

The sales revenue account has not been set, so an invoice has nowhere to recognise its revenue. Set it in Accounting settings.

Invoice {number} is already void.

Money has been received against invoice {number}, so it cannot be voided. Correct it with an opposing document instead.

Voiding an invoice needs a reason. It becomes part of the record.

This document has no lines. Add at least one line with a description and an amount.

Line {line} is not complete. Every line needs a description, a quantity above zero and a price that is not negative.

{key} is not a tax rate your country declares. Choose one of the declared rates — the percentage itself comes from your country pack and is never typed in.

The due date {dueDate} is before the document’s own date {date}.

These books are kept in {expected} and this amount is in {found}. It was refused rather than converted at a rate nobody supplied.

{currency} is kept to {expected} decimal places in these books and this amount states {found}. Posting it would restate the amount, so it was refused.

The amount has to be above zero.

{method} is not a settlement method this product has.

That bill is not in the books.

A bill has to name the supplier it came from.

The payables control account has not been set, so a bill has nowhere to record what you owe. Set it in Accounting settings.

The purchases expense account has not been set, so a bill line has nowhere to land. Set it in Accounting settings.

The purchase tax recoverable account has not been set, and this bill carries tax. Set it in Accounting settings.

Bill {number} is already void.

Money has been paid against bill {number}, so it cannot be voided.

That budget is not in this workspace.

A budget needs a name.

A budget needs the financial year it is for.

That budget line could not be read. Nothing has been changed.

There are two lines for the same account in {month}. A month has one planned figure per account.

A budget holds at most {max} lines.

These books are kept to {expected} decimal places, not {given}.

Say what the money was spent on. An expense with no description is a number nobody can audit.

No expense account was chosen and no default is set, so this spend has nowhere to land. Choose an account, or set the purchases expense account in Accounting settings.

The cash account has not been set, so spent money has nowhere to leave from. Set it in Accounting settings.

Account {code} is not an expense account. Posting a spend there would balance perfectly and misstate your results.

The chosen account is not in this chart of accounts.

Fund {code} has entries posted under it, so its code cannot change. Rename it instead.

A fund code is up to 20 letters, digits, dashes or underscores.

A fund with the code {code} already exists.

Fund {code} is inactive. Reactivate it before posting to it.

A fund needs a name.

That fund is not in this workspace.

Funds are not available on this workspace yet. Ask your operator to run the funds migration.

Fund {code} is restricted and this would overspend it by {shortfall}. Nothing was posted.

{restriction} is not a restriction this ledger knows. Use unrestricted, restricted or designated.

That fund does not exist in this workspace.

That asset is not in this workspace.

An asset needs a name.

An asset needs a cost above zero. Everything else here is worked out from it.

An asset needs a useful life in months, so there is something to spread the cost over.

A declining balance asset needs an annual rate. Straight line does not.

Depreciation has already been posted on this asset, so its cost, residual value, life and method are fixed. Correct it by reversing those entries and entering the asset again.

Depreciation for {month} has already been posted on this asset. It is not posted twice.

{name} is written down to its residual value. There is nothing left to depreciate.

{name} has already been disposed of. Reverse the disposal entry in the journal if that was wrong.

No gain-or-loss on disposal account is set. Name one in Accounting settings before disposing of an asset.

An asset cannot be disposed of on {date}, before it was bought on {purchaseDate}.

Disposal is not available on this workspace yet. Ask your operator to run the fixed-asset disposal migration.

Proceeds need an account to land on. Choose one, or name a cash account in Accounting settings.

Proceeds cannot be negative.

These books are kept to {expected} decimal places, not {given}.

A payment has to name the supplier who was paid.

The cash account has not been set, so paid money has nowhere to leave from. Set it in Accounting settings.

One of the allocations does not name a bill that is in the books.

Bill {number} is void — there is no debt for this money to settle.

Bill {number} belongs to a different supplier.

More was applied to bill {number} than it has outstanding.

The allocations add up to more than the money paid.

A quote has to name the customer it is offered to.

This quote would stop being valid on {expiryDate}, before its own date of {date}. Check the two dates.

That quote is not in the books.

Quote {number} has already become an invoice. One quote converts once — to bill the same work again, raise a new invoice or a new quote.

A receipt has to name the customer who paid.

The cash account has not been set, so received money has nowhere to land. Set it in Accounting settings.

One of the allocations does not name an invoice that is in the books.

Invoice {number} is void — there is no debt for this money to settle.

Invoice {number} belongs to a different customer.

More was applied to invoice {number} than it has outstanding.

The allocations add up to more than the money received.

That reconciliation is not in the books.

That account is not in this chart of accounts.

Account {code} is not an asset account. A reconciliation compares a bank or cash account against a statement, and there is no statement for anything else.

This statement would end on {end}, before it starts on {start}. Check the two dates.

Type the closing balance from the statement. It is not assumed to be zero, because zero is a real balance and the difference would then be measured against nothing.

Say what the statement line is. A line with no description cannot be checked back against the statement.

A statement line needs an amount and it cannot be zero. Use a negative amount for money leaving the account.

That entry is not on this reconciliation’s account, so this bank statement has nothing to say about it.

That entry is dated {date}, after this statement ends on {statementEnd}. The bank cannot have seen it yet.

That entry has already been ticked off, here or on an earlier reconciliation. An entry clears once — otherwise the same money counts as cleared in two months and both would appear to balance.

That entry is not ticked off on this reconciliation, so there is nothing to undo.

This reconciliation has been completed, so its ticks and statement lines can no longer be changed. Start a new one for the next statement.

A tax return needs a start and an end date.

The period ends on {periodEnd}, before it starts on {periodStart}.

No base currency has been set for these books. Set one before posting.

An account with the code {code} already exists.

{code} has {count} postings against it. Deactivate it instead of deleting it.

{code} is used by the ledger itself. You can rename it, but it cannot be deleted.

This entry has already been posted.

This entry has already been reversed.

Line {line} carries both a debit and a credit. A line carries one or the other.

A posted entry cannot be changed. Reverse it and post a correction.

Add at least one line.

{code} is no longer in use and cannot be posted to.

Enter a date in the form YYYY-MM-DD.

Every line on one entry must be in {expected}. A line was found in {found}.

Line {line} carries a negative amount. To undo a posting, reverse it — never post a negative.

That entry does not exist.

This entry has not been posted.

A reversal cannot be reversed. Post a new entry instead.

An entry needs at least two lines — one debit and one credit.

This entry does not balance and was not saved. Debits {debit}, credits {credit} — a difference of {difference}.

That account does not exist.

Line {line} has no amount. Enter a debit or a credit.

This product does not recognise {source} as a journal source. An entry's source is what decides which lock date it answers to, so it cannot be guessed at.

An entry cannot be declared as {source}. Opening balances and the year-end close bypass every lock date, and they are posted by the routines that own them.

A city-ledger transfer moves a balance between the guest ledger and a company's account. Account {code} is neither, so this entry cannot be posted as one. The revenue was already recognised when the charge was posted to the folio.

The guest-ledger and city-ledger control accounts have not been set, so a transfer between them has nowhere to post. Set both in Accounting settings.

The books are locked for everyone through {lockDate}.

The books are locked through {lockDate}.

These books are final through {lockDate}. A hard lock cannot be lifted.

The hard lock only moves forward. It is set to {current} and cannot be moved back to {attempted}.

Purchases are locked through {lockDate}.

Sales are locked through {lockDate}.

Tax entries are locked through {lockDate}.

{period} is closed. Reopen it before posting to {date}.

This period ends before it starts.

That period does not exist.

These dates overlap {period}. Two periods cannot contain the same day.

Say why this period is being reopened.

Say which financial year to close.

That cheque is not in the register.

A cheque that is {from} cannot be moved to {to}. Check where this one actually is — a cheque that cannot be deposited is usually one that already was.

A cheque we {direction} cannot be {event}. Depositing a cheque you wrote, or clearing one into a bank it was never handed to, is not a movement this register has.

{direction} is not a direction. A cheque is either one we received or one we wrote.

This product has no cheque movement called {event}.

This cheque is in a state — {state} — that the {direction} lifecycle does not have, so no movement can be decided from it. It was refused rather than allowed through.

A cheque needs the number printed on it. It is how the bank, the customer and these books all name the same piece of paper.

Cheque {number} drawn on {bank} is already in the register. A cheque number is unique to its bank, so this is almost certainly the same piece of paper being recorded twice — not two cheques that happen to share a number. Recording it twice banks it twice, or shows the customer as owing double.

A cheque carries its amount as a positive figure, and whether it was received or written decides which way the balance moves. To undo a movement, record what actually happened to the cheque next.

This cheque does not say what currency it is in.

These books are kept in {expected} and this cheque is in {found}. It was refused rather than converted: converting needs a rate, and the rate this product would have to invent is the difference between what the bank credits and what the ledger says.

This cheque states an amount in {currency} without saying how many decimal places it carries. An amount is minor units and a precision together.

{currency} is kept to {expected} decimal places in these books and this cheque states {found}. Posting it would restate the amount, so it was refused.

An {direction} cheque must name the customer or supplier it belongs to. Its movements take a balance off that account and put it back, and one that names nobody cannot be aged, chased, or matched against their own statement.

A cheque you write must say which of your accounts it is drawn on. That is known when the cheque is written, and deciding it later lets the payment leave an account the cheque was never drawn on.

Cashing a cheque over the counter has to say what it was cashed into.

Account {code} is one of the accounts cheques move between, so a cheque cannot be banked into it. The movement would debit and credit the same place: it balances, the trial balance ties, and the cheque never moves.

The cheques-on-hand account has not been set, so a cheque you receive has nowhere to be held. Set it in Accounting settings. It is an asset: taking a customer's cheque does not settle the debt, it changes what kind of asset the debt is.

The cheques-under-collection account has not been set, so a cheque lodged with the bank has nowhere to sit until it clears. Set it in Accounting settings. A cheque in transit is neither the customer's debt nor the bank's money, and calling it either is wrong.

The cheques-issued account has not been set, so a cheque you write has nowhere to go until the bank pays it. Set it in Accounting settings. It is a liability: the supplier is no longer owed on account, and your bank balance has not moved either.

The receivables control account has not been set, so a customer's cheque has no balance to come off. Set it in Accounting settings.

The payables control account has not been set, so a cheque written to a supplier has no balance to come off. Set it in Accounting settings.

Two of the accounts a cheque moves between are the same account. The movement between them would debit and credit one place — it balances, and the figure this module exists to produce is permanently zero. Give each of them its own account in Accounting settings.

A deposit needs at least one cheque in it.

This cheque was never lodged with a bank, so there is no account for it to clear into.

Somebody else moved this cheque a moment ago. Their movement was recorded and yours was not, because yours was decided against a state the cheque is no longer in. Open it again and look at where it is now.