US 8,135,633 B1Granted

System and method for change management and transaction versioning

AssigneeIntuit Inc.

InventorsLynn D. LeBaron, Jeffrey R. Mendonca

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Abstract

An accounting tool may be used to manage financial data for an organization. The accounting tool may support the closing of accounting periods for the finances of the organization. The accounting tool may be configured to receive a request to modify a transaction of a closed accounting period. The accounting tool may be configured to create a changed version of the transaction according to the modify request, and to maintain a previous version of the transaction that does not include the requested modification. A separate transaction may not be required, even though the modified transaction was initially recorded during a closed accounting period. In addition, the accounting tool may be configured to provide a plurality of views of the closed accounting period, e.g., a first view that comprises the previous version of the transaction, and another view that comprises the changed version.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a processor;
a memory;
a fraud detector tool residing in the memory, executing on the processor, and comprising functionality to:
calculate a modification percentage based on a transaction amount and a modified transaction amount;
identify a plurality of historical transaction modifications of a user;
calculate, based on the modification percentage and the plurality of historical transaction modifications, a probability of fraud;
and
determine that the probability of fraud is less than a predefined threshold;
and
an accounting tool residing in the memory, executing on the processor, and comprising functionality to:
identify, among a plurality of transactions corresponding to a closed accounting period, a transaction comprising the transaction amount;
receive, from a user, a request to modify the transaction with the modified transaction amount;
create, in response to determining that the probability of fraud is less than the predefined threshold, a changed version of the transaction comprising the modified transaction amount according to the request to modify, and maintain a previous version of the transaction not modified according to the request to modify;
receive a selection of a report type for a report indicative of the closed accounting period from among a plurality of report types, wherein the plurality of report types comprises:
a first report type indicating that a last modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the changed version is included in the report and a previously modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the previous version is excluded from the report,
a second report type indicating that a version of the plurality of transactions as of a specified time is included in the report, and
a third report type indicating that the last modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the changed version and the previously modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the previous version are included in the report;
and
generate, based on the selection, the report in accordance with the report type.

16 more elements

A computer-readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of program instructions for financial reporting, wherein the plurality of program instructions are computer-executable to:

identify, among a plurality of transactions corresponding to a closed accounting period, a transaction comprising a transaction amount;
receive, from a user, a request to modify the transaction with a modified transaction amount;
calculate a modification percentage based on the transaction amount and the modified transaction amount;
identify a plurality of historical transaction modifications of the user;
calculate, based on the modification percentage and the plurality of historical transaction modifications, a probability of fraud;
determine that the probability of fraud is less than a predefined threshold;
create, in response to determining that the probability of fraud is less than the predefined threshold, a changed version of the transaction comprising the modified transaction amount according to the request to modify, and maintain a previous version of the transaction not modified according to the request to modify;
receive a selection of a report type for a report indicative of the closed accounting period from among a plurality of report types, wherein the plurality of report types comprises:
a first report type indicating that a last modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the changed version is included in the report and a previously modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the previous version is excluded from the report,
a second report type indicating that a version of the transaction plurality of transactions as of a specified time is included in the report, and
a third report type indicating that the last modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the changed version and the previously modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the previous version are included in the report;
and
generate, based on the selection, the report in accordance with the report type.

10 more elements

A computer-implemented method of financial reporting, comprising:

identifying, among a plurality of transactions corresponding to a closed accounting period, a transaction comprising a transaction amount;
receiving, from a user, a request to modify the transaction with a modified transaction amount;
calculating, by a computer processor, a modification percentage based on the transaction amount and the modified transaction amount;
identifying a plurality of historical transaction modifications of the user;
calculating, by the computer processor and based on the modification percentage and the plurality of historical transaction modifications, a probability of fraud;
determining that the probability of fraud is less than a predefined threshold;
creating, in response to determining that the probability of fraud is less than the predefined threshold, a changed version of the transaction comprising the modified transaction amount according to the request to modify, and maintaining a previous version of the transaction not modified according to the request to modify;
receiving a selection of a report type for a report indicative of the closed accounting period from among a plurality of report types, wherein the plurality of report types comprises:
a first report type indicating that a last modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the changed version is included in the report and a previously modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the previous version is excluded from the report,
a second report type indicating that a version of the plurality of transactions as of a specified time is included in the report, and
a third report type indicating that the last modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the changed version and the previously modified version of each of the plurality of transactions including the previous version are included in the report;
and
generating, by the computer processor and based on the selection, the report in accordance with the report type.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.