Guidance on how to back out events in error
We say often that economic resource quantities, and other elements that could affect accounting reports, cannot be changed without a new economic event. This is consistent with standard accounting rules. Many economic events have a "natural" counter-event that can be used to correct quantities or back something out, the most obvious being raise
and lower
. But not all do, like work
.
We've also made an attempt to keep economic event quantities positive numbers, in a similar sense that debits and credits are positive numbers, it's all relative to the agent. The action definitions of decrement/increment define how those positive numbers affect resources. (Economic resource quantities can go negative for valid reasons, just noting that here for clarity, it doesn't affect this issue.)
Can't have both. We are working on a lot of recommendations for application logic and validations now, so it is a good time to address this more clearly.