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Please help! I wrote cheques out to nominal payees (not to suppliers) which will never be sent but had already been entered on SAGE. How do I cancel the cheques on SAGE or reverse the entry please?

Many thanks

Find the audit trail number of the transactions you want to delete

go to File > Maint > Error Correct

Use the transaction numbers to find the transactions and then delete them.

i have a similar problem where we issued a couple of cheques several months ago and they haven't been cashed by the payees for some unknown reason. They were dated over 6mths ago so are not valid for presentation (but, having worked in a bank I know that chques dated over 6mths old can easily slip thru and get presented) and I am wanting to remove these from Sage.

I would be inclined to delete them from the system as recommended by brucedenney, however I received some advice from someone else along the lines that I should instead use the write-off feature. Any opinion on whether to delete or write off?

thx

Writing off is a little neater in that there is no deleted transaction, however, you can only write off the transaction if the other party has ceased trading.

If they still exist then so does the debt, if you write off the debt then you are committing the criminal act of theft.