Postby gregwanderson » Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:58 am
I'd wonder about how the money ended up in the "Other" category to begin with. Should it have been originally deposited into a budget category? (Forgive me but I'm a little frustrated by all the unexplained acronyms in the church, so I had to look up "FSY" to discover it means "For the Strength of Youth" Confrences, right?) Normally, we don't make deposits into "Budget" categories.
So, is it possible to go back and correct the original deposit(s) to go into "Budget" instead of "Other"? Is it possible to correct the expenses that were taken from "Budget" for FSY and change them to "Other:FSY"? It seems like the cleanest way to fix this is to just correct the past income and the expense records in order to clear out the "Other:FSY" category, rather than create transfers. This should be possible, unless the things which need correction happened too far in the past.
The best use of "Other" is, of course, to collect money for a specific purpose and then use it all up for that specific purpose. Was that the way it should have worked in this case? Is it too late to correct the records so that, on paper, this is exactly what happened?