Informal description
Let $\alpha$ be a commutative group. For any list $l$ of elements of $\alpha$, the alternating product of the reversed list equals the alternating product of $l$ raised to the power $(-1)^{|l| + 1}$, where $|l|$ is the length of $l$. That is,
$$\text{alternatingProd}(\text{reverse}(l)) = \text{alternatingProd}(l)^{(-1)^{|l| + 1}}$$
where $\text{alternatingProd}(l)$ denotes the alternating product of the list $l$ (i.e., $a_1 \cdot a_2^{-1} \cdot a_3 \cdot a_4^{-1} \cdots$ for $l = [a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4, \dots]$).