Reverse a Producer/Broker Payable Statement
Reversing a statement creates an equal but opposite statement
that offsets the original. Reversing items for all transactions flagged
on the original statement are also created. A finalized reconciliation
statement can be reversed whether it is paid or unpaid and whether the
accounting month is open, locked, posted, or finalized. Be aware that
reversing a paid statement does not affect the associated General Ledger
item. The best practice for reversing a paid statement is to reverse it
through the Void Disbursement
or Void Voucher
workflow.
If the Journal
Entry Approval Process is enabled, only journal entries with an Approved or System
Approved status affect General Ledger balances and display on reconciliation
screens. Journal entries with a Working,
Submitted, or Rejected
status are excluded.
In order for a statement to be reversed,
- It cannot have been reversed previously.
- It cannot have a Reversed
status of Failed. If
this is the case, you will need to use the Reprocess
Statement action to complete the reversal.
- It must have a status of Finalized
or Approved.
- No pending processes can be associated to the items on the
statement.
- The statement cannot consist entirely of items with open/resolved
discrepancies, as these items cannot be reversed.
- Click the statement
in the list and then do one of the following:
- Click Actions
> Reverse Statement on the options bar.
- Click Actions
> Reverse Statement on the menubar.
- Right click the statement
and select Reverse
Statement.
Note:
No actions can be performed on statements containing archived transactions.
- The Reverse Statement
window displays, listing all individual statements associated to the
selected master statement number. Select the statement(s)
you want to reverse.
- Change the Accounting
month if necessary.
- Make a selection from the Recreate
statement dropdown menu:
- <Do Not Recreate>:
A reversing statement is created, but the original statement is
not recreated.
- Recreate Finalized:
In addition to the reversing statement, a recreated version of
the original statement is generated with a status of Finalized.
All items flagged on the original statement are flagged on the
recreated statement.
- Recreate Suspended:
In addition to the reversing statement, a recreated version of
the original statement is generated with a status of Suspended.
All items flagged on the original statement are flagged on the
recreated statement.
Note:
If a suspended statement with the same criteria currently exists,
you cannot recreate the statement as a suspended statement. You
should instead select Recreate
Finalized, and then reopen the recreated statement to do
any necessary work once the currently suspended statement has
been finalized.
- Click Finish.
Depending on your system event configuration, you may be prompted
to enter an activity. Fill out the activity detail and click Finish.
- When the reversal/recreation is complete, you receive a notification
informing you whether the process was successful.
- If the reversal was successful, the original and reversing
statements have a Reversed
status of Reversed; if
not, they have a Reversed
status of Failed.
- If the recreation was successful, the recreated statement has
a status of Finalized
or Suspended, depending
on your Recreate statement
selection. If not, it has a status of Failed.
- Regardless of whether the reversal is successful, a log is generated
for each individual statement that was reversed. The log is stored
on the statement company or broker’s Attachments list. You
can access it from the Reconciliations area by highlighting the statement and
clicking Access > Attachments.
If a statement is recreated (successfully or unsuccessfully), a separate
recreate log is also generated. The log provides a list of the items
reversed/recreated as well as those that could not be reversed/recreated
and the reasons why. Once the issues identified in the log have been
corrected, you can use the Reprocess
Statement action to complete the reversal/recreation successfully.