Patent ID: 7644021

Claim:
A method for processing accounting data of an enterprise, the method comprising: entering accounting data entries associated with one or more accounts in memory of an interactive system, the interactive system capable of communicating with a batch system; the interactive system processing the accounting data entries for determining an accounting data entry error based on predetermined accounting rules stored in memory of the interactive system; copying at least some of the accounting data entries to the batch system, the batch system including a processor configured for rejecting certain ones of the accounting data entries copied to the batch system based on predetermined accounting rules stored in memory of the batch system and associating reject information with rejected accounting data entries for use in correcting the rejected accounting data entries; copying the rejected accounting data entries including the associated reject information to the interactive system; and displaying the accounting data entries rejected by the batch system including the reject information to a user at the interactive system, the reject information providing an indication to the user of why the accounting data entries were rejected; and updating the predetermined accounting rules stored in the memory of the interactive system based on the predetermined accounting rules stored in the memory of the batch system.