Due to poor operating practices, a company sometimes has to backdate transactions. These transactions are entered a month or more after they actually...

Due to poor operating practices, a company sometimes has to backdate transactions. These transactions are entered a month or more after they actually occurred. The people in accounting argue that the “historic” information should not change. The standard in the data warehouse transformation process is this: if a transaction has a date that is 40 days old, the data warehouse data for that day will change. Should a backdated transaction not change the “historic” information in the data warehouse?