Back to the books

How the books work

Twelve kinds of paper, what each one does to the ledger, and the handful of rules the system will not let you break. This is the same manual the AI works from — so if you and it ever disagree, this page is where to settle it.

01The life of a document

Every paper walks the same steps, only ever forwards — and who may change it narrows at each one.

draft
You and the AI
Yours to edit, and the AI's. Check every figure against the paper here, while changing it costs nothing.
issued
The AI only
It left the building, and takes its number here if it has none. It can now settle things and be settled. You no longer edit it — tell the assistant what is wrong.
posted
The AI only
It is in the ledger and on every report. A mistake on it is corrected by the assistant, in place: the document and its entry together.
locked
Nobody
Dated in a closed period. Closing the books locks everything dated up to that day; nothing changes it, the AI included, until an owner reopens the period.
void
Nobody
Cancelled, with reversal entries written automatically. The original stays visible. You or the AI can void an issued or posted paper that should not be in the books at all.
Nothing goes back to draft. A paper read wrong is corrected, not voided and entered again: say what is wrong in the assistant beside the page, and it changes the document and its entry in place, then checks everything linked to it.

Correcting something already issued or posted

The figure, the date, the party, the lines, the account it went to, the bank or cash it went through — all of it is corrected by the assistant, and it is one walk every time:

STEP 1Tell the assistant On the document's page: "the amount is wrong, check the paper", "this should be 500-001", "this receipt paid IV-108B, not IV-108A". It reads the original when your words do not settle the figure.
STEP 2It corrects it in place The document changes and its entry is written again from it — the same entry, the same number, dated with the document. No reversal dated today, no second document, no credit note for a return nobody made.
STEP 3It checks what is linked Every knock-off on it, every receipt or invoice on the other end of one and that document's entry, every bank line that carries it. It is not done until all of them tie — and it tells you what it checked.
The knock-off still fits

An invoice keyed at 2,810 that the paper says is 2,180, already paid 2,180 from the bank. Corrected to 2,180: its entry becomes 2,180, the receipt stays knocked against it, and the bank line stays posted. Nothing else moves.

IV-107 posted  RM2,180.00  · settled RM2,180.00  · outstanding RM0.00
More money sits against it than it now comes to

Corrected below what was received, the knock-off has to move first, and the assistant says where the rest of that money belongs — another invoice of the same customer, or a balance left on them. The receipt's entry is written again with it.

Refused until the knock-off is moved:  settled 1,000 · would come to 600
Every step is in the assistant's log with its undo. A document dated in a closed period is locked and is not corrected at all — reopen the period first, which only an owner can do, with a reason.

Cancelling something that is already posted

Voiding is for a paper that should not be in the books at all — entered twice, or not this company's. You can do it yourself. What decides whether it is allowed is one question: has money already moved against it?

Nothing has settled it

Void it. A reversal entry is written automatically and the original stays beside it — net zero, both visible.

JV-00002 Auto-posted — INV-555  Dr 1210 800 · Cr 4110 800
JV-00003 Reversal of JV-00002  Cr 1210 800 · Dr 4110 800
A receipt or a bank line settled it

Refused. Voiding would reverse this document and leave the receipt standing, so debtors would go negative by what was paid, with nothing to explain it.

If the paper was read wrong, it is not a void at all — ask the assistant to correct it. If the payment was the mistake, void the payment first. Only a sale or purchase really taken back after it was paid is a credit note.

02Every posting has two sides

Worth holding in your head, because it decides who gets to choose what.

The judgment call

What was bought or sold

The expense, revenue or asset account. This is where capital-versus-expense is decided, and where the house posting preferences earn their keep.

Lorry servicing → 6540  an expense
A computer → 1590  an asset
An oven → 1530  an asset
Not a judgment call — a reading

Which account the money moved through

Bank or till, and only on papers where money actually moved. The paper says which; you are reading it, not deciding it.

Stamped TUNAI → 1110 the till
IBG / DuitNow / transfer → 1120 the bank
A cash bill headed Bil Tunai with no English on it anywhere is still cash. Putting it in the bank is a mistake that stays invisible until the month will not reconcile.

03The twelve papers

Click any one for the steps. Six of them reach the ledger; six never do, by design.

You issue these — money coming in
You issue these — money going out
You receive these

04The rules that catch everyone out

Five of these the database enforces — it will simply refuse you. The last one nothing can enforce, and that is the point of it.

05The bank statement

Not a document — the external check on everything above. It is the one figure in the books the company did not write itself, which is why it comes last.

06Month end

The papers are in and the statement ties out. What is left is reading the result, handing it over, and making sure it stays what was handed over.

07The assistant beside every page

Open it from the speech-bubble button at the top right. It works on the page you are looking at — "this should be 500-001" means this document — and every change it makes goes into its log with an undo.

08Around the screens

Where to find things, and the shortcuts that save the most clicks.

Why the AI follows this page

The steps above are the safe operations: they validate their inputs, enforce evidence and the status graph, refuse what should be refused, and each one is recorded and undoable. That makes them exactly the right tools for an agent — so the agent is given the same operations you have, and no others.

It cannot reach into the tables, cannot skip a step you could not skip, and cannot produce a state you could not have produced by hand. When it is unsure it stops and asks rather than guessing, and every move it makes can be undone one at a time.

Recorded on a demo company — the figures are invented.