Hi on every system I've ever used in my 30 years I've always had the invoice date what is on the invoice and the posting date is the current period. when accountants then did a vat return it was run using the period date and it picked up all the postings for those invoices. this is my first time using SAGE and my company say you have to enter the transaction date as the current month regardless of the invoice date as the VAT return has to show the invoices for that month and you cannot show older items as it impacts the return. This sounds wrong to me,,,what do others do...I have never heard of altering invoice dates to match the processing date just because of way a vat return is done? help