FACTURA DESCUADRADA

English translation: inaccurate invoice

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Spanish term or phrase:FACTURA DESCUADRADA
English translation:inaccurate invoice

17:43 Jul 7, 2017
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Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Accounting / e-Tax, e-Accounting...
Spanish term or phrase: FACTURA DESCUADRADA
SPAIN and/or LatAm. This appears in some software strings, in alphabetical order, without any helpful context. I know that "descuadre" means a discrepancy, mismatch or imbalance, but Google translates it as a "discounted invoice"... which I found strange.


"FACTURA DESCUADRADA Total a Pagar = Base Imp. + ( Base Imp. * % IVA) +/- 0.05 Valor encontrado:
-Falta cantidad suministrada."
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 13:26
inaccurate invoice
Explanation:
My take on it. It is inaccurate because the sum/amount given was not entered.
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Phoenix III
United States
Local time: 07:26
Grading comment
For now I'm using "unbalanced invoice", for brevity if nothing else. Thanks everyone for contributing :-)
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1inaccurate invoice
Phoenix III
4Invoice figures do not add up
Francois Boye
4INVOICE NOT TALLIED
Jesús Pulido Ruiz
4unbalanced bill
jude dabo
Summary of reference entries provided
References
Helena Chavarria

Discussion entries: 12





  

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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Invoice figures do not add up


Explanation:
https://www.sws-solutions.co.uk/guide/index.html?invoice_fig...

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 07:26
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 129
Notes to answerer
Asker: Nice explanation, but too many words for my purposes. Thanks anyway :-)

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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
inaccurate invoice


Explanation:
My take on it. It is inaccurate because the sum/amount given was not entered.

Phoenix III
United States
Local time: 07:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
For now I'm using "unbalanced invoice", for brevity if nothing else. Thanks everyone for contributing :-)
Notes to answerer
Asker: I wanted a 2-word solution, and was considering using this, but ended up going for 'unbalanced' this time.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Samuel Sebastian Holden Bramah
2 mins
  -> Thanks so much!
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
INVOICE NOT TALLIED


Explanation:
Hola, vamos a ver:

1.- El término en español está mal utilizado porque cuadrar es un término contable, cuadrar una cuenta significa igualar las cantidades en el debe y el haber de esa cuenta. Estamos hablando del libro mayor, por supuesto.

Por lo tanto, un término más acertado debería ser "Factura mal calculada" o "Error de cálculo en la factura", por poner dos ejemplos.

2.- En la traducción, tienes dos opciones, o traducir fielmente al original y usar un término equivalente al término contable, es decir, "Tally", que es lo que los contables de EE. UU. y Reino Unido hacen en su sistema, que es diferente al europeo, para realizar la misma función que "cuadrar".

O bien puedes traducir corrigiendo el error, lo cual te lleva a una buena posible opción como "inaccurate invoice" o "invoice mismatch" o "invoice miscalculation", como tú quieras.

Yo, si tuviera que hacer la traducción, me inclinaría por la primera opción, porque me gusta ser fiel al original siempre que puedo.

No pongo referencias, es mi opinión, basada en estudios completados de contabilidad en el Reino Unido y España.

Saludos

Jesús Pulido Ruiz
India
Local time: 16:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for the explanation :)

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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
unbalanced bill


Explanation:
Balanced & unbalanced billings

jude dabo
Local time: 12:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference: References

Reference information:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/unbalanced-invoice.3...

I always trust the answers given by the person who replied to the question in the link below.

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/factura-descuadrada....

Access displays a message to the user indicating the number of unbalanced invoices found but, in this case...

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NbBCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT898&lp...

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Note added at 1 hr (2017-07-07 18:59:23 GMT)
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Description:
When an invoice is not balanced and the discrepancy is a small amount, closing the invoice causes ALEPH to close the invoice without the usual warning then alters each invoice line by one or two pence up to the point where it is balanced.
If the discrepancy is large, ALEPH still behaves as expected: issues a warning 'Invoice not balanced, close anyway?', and after closure leaves the invoice lines alone (does not change them).
Can this be turn off?

https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Aleph/Knowledge_Articles...

Helena Chavarria
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 52
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