I'm sending a request to a backend THAT IS OFFLINE using axios

const backendClient = axios.create({
  baseURL : env
});

The API gets called

export const createExpensesRecord = async (createExpenseRecordCmd) => {
    try {
        await backendClient.post("/api/accounting/expenses", createExpenseRecordCmd)
        return true
    } catch(error) {
        return false
    }
}

The error code should trigger, as the backend is not reachable with Error: Network Error.

function submitAccountingRecord() {
        if(formDataValid()) {
            
            if(createExpensesRecord(cmd)) {
                console.log("SUCCESS")
            } else {
                console.log("FAILED")
            }

            ...
        }
    }

No matter what I do, I always receive SUCCESS. Played around with it for over an hour and couldn't get consistant behaviour. What am I doing wrong?

Be aware that I tried multiple approaches, maybe we can stick to this one than suggestion different options to solve it. It's the most straight forward approach I could think of

---- UPDATE

await function submitAccountingRecord() {
        if(formDataValid()) {
            
            if(await createExpensesRecord(cmd)) {
                console.log("SUCCESS")
            } else {
                console.log("FAILED")
            }

            ...
        }
    }