Is there anyway to go back 4-5+ years and print reports

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For the first time I have run across 3 instances that I need to go back and look at customer, vendor and payroll reports from more than 3 years ago, and of course the program won't let me. 
 It lets me do income statements, and balance statements, but not customer, vendor or payroll. I don't imagine there is a way to do it just in the regular program, but going forward, is there a way to save it each fiscal year end so I could go to that back up or copy and look at past years. 
 If there is a way to look up previous years - please let me know. I would think that we would have to do it for at least 7 years for CRA purposes alone. 
 I have the Accountant edition Sage 50 Canadian 2021.2

Richard S. Ridings · Answer

I haven't specifically checked the most recent version but the program by default is set up to keep almost all reporting based on the version of the file. Pro will keep current and 6 previous years of Financials, Premium and Quantum will keep up to 100 years. Customer and Vendor Aged Detail reports will be kept forever and Payroll will keep detail for the current year and two previous fiscal years. 
 If you don't have this, then someone has either manually Cleared data or setup the program to Automatically Clear Data on a fiscal year transition (Maintenance Menu) and then allowed it to Clear Data when moving to a new fiscal year. 
 When I say forever, it will go back to the beginning of the data file's creation. 
 EMaude said: is there a way to save it each fiscal year end so I could go to that back up or copy and look at past years. 
 I use File, Save As and give the filename a year at each fiscal year transition (before moving the session date to the new year). This way I have a file based on the session date as of the last day of each year. I also keep a cab file backup.

Richard S. Ridings · Answer

If you were a partner in 2018 then you would have a copy of the program, possibly still installed that you could use. However, if you restore a 2018 backup with Sage 50 AE 2021 then it will unpack the file to the hard drive then attempt to upgrade it. Therefore you don't need to have the 2018 version of the program unless there is a problem upgrading. Most of us keep our old versions because we often come across people with older versions and have to keep compatible if we wish to take them on as clients.

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