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Please allow me to clarify the scenario:

This comapny is a restaurant, and has only one bank account. So everyday, at closing time, the cashier prints a Cashier's Report using the restaurant software Aldelo for Reestaurants, cuts-off the credit card POS, counts the cash and bundles everything in a package to give to the accountant.

The following morning, the accountant checks everything and prepares one entry:

Entry # 1

Debit - Cash on Hand $1,000.00
Credit - Sales $1,000.00

And after the money gets deposited to the bank by the manager, he handles the accountant the deposit slip. She now makes another entry:

Entry # 2 (Bank Deposit)

Debit - Bank $1,000.00
Credit - Cash on Hand $1,000.00

In this case, FA behaves as it should and everything is fine.

This is an over simplication of the process. Now, for whatever reason, she made a mistake in the second entry, and did it like this:

Entry # 2 (Bank Deposit)

Debit - Bank $1,000.00
Credit - Bank $1,000.00

Now FA does not seem to like this mistake and, when trying to visualize the entry, gives an error "duplicate payment bank transaction found" when listing Bank Account Inquiry. Granted, the accountant should not make mistakes, but they do.

Maybe someone can try this and see if they get the same problem. It might just be my installation ....

Thank you.

Just to be sure: Please clarify the term "disallow bank transactions in the rows". Will this affect entries where you post deposits by a debit to banks and a credit to cash?

Thank you.

Ok. I think I found something. The accountant was doing this: debit the bank account and also credit the bank account in the same voucher, for the same amount. Although the effect to the account is zero, FA does not like this. Obviously it was a mistake on her part, but should not generate a problem with the dabase. Now we can not make corrections because we can not visualize the voucher. I will try and see if I can void the transactions.

Ok. I get two identical rows (except for ID) when using the transaction number that gives me problems. Is it safe to remove one of them using phpMyAdmin, or is there a utility in FrontAccounting to fix this? Thank you.

That tip I had already considered. But in my case, for instance, it might seem impractical. Picture petty cash reimbursements, for instance, which are done by check, plus many other situations all financial officers in the forum are aware of, and which should not be handled through accounts payables. What I'm doing right now, since I need to be able to print the voucher at least, and write the check by hand, is view the journal entry  and print it via browser, and staple it to the check. Thank you.

I noticed it works perfectly on your server, but if I do that on mine, it reverts back to English and ignores the Spanish translation. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 bit set to use es_HN.utf-8. All other reports work Ok except the one "Annual Expense Breakdown". If it is a matter of timing out, how can I increase the time so that FA won't report it as an error? It shows a triangle after a few seconds. Thank you for your help.

No. It is not setup as a bank account. I am trying to enter the beginning balances of all GL accounts by posting a journal entry, and it was that account only that could not be posted by the accountant until I raised her privileges. Thank you.

I was ruinning FA under Windows XP. I installed it in my notebook running Ubuntu 8.04 and it works perfectly now. I need the Spanish translation, so I copied lang.es.php to the Numbers subdirectory, and renamed it to Words.php but now it does not work. Using the original Words.php file restores the English functionality. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.