The chief executive of the Post Office, Nick Read, will return part of his £450,000 bonus for last year, after a rebuke from the chairman of the inquiry into the Horizon computer scandal.
In its financial accounts for last year, the Post Office said its executives had met all their obligations to support the inquiry into the system.
But the inquiry is still taking place.
It also wrongly said inquiry chairman Sir Wyn Williams had approved bonuses relating to that support.
Mr Read apologised for what he described as "unacceptable errors".
In a letter to the inquiry chairman, Mr Read admitted the firm had made an "incorrect statement" in its accounts.
Miscarriage of justice
The Horizon inquiry is investigating how hundreds of sub-postmasters became victims of a vast miscarriage of justice.
They were blamed for discrepancies in their sub-post office's finances and prosecuted, with many receiving prison sentences, criminal records or going bankrupt. The discrepancies were down to the Post Office's glitch-prone IT system, called Horizon.
The BBC says the inquiry has heard moving testimony from dozens of sub-postmasters who were falsely accused of fraud. Hundreds lost their livelihoods, were stigmatised in their communities, and some sent to prison.
Dozens of convictions have now been overturned in the courts, but many of those wrongly convicted are still awaiting compensation.
The next phase of the inquiry due to start next month will look at the action taken against the sub-postmasters, and knowledge of and responsibility for failures in investigation. A later phase will explore governance including whistleblowing over the scandal.