It would be nice to see this. I have clients that don't receive vendor invoices for several months after the vendor has delivered purchased items to my clients. Sometimes, the invoices don't arrive until after I have closed the previous year. This creates major problems for aging reports, etc. I had one client who had a vendor who did not give the client 2 invoices until 2.5 years after the fact. It cause the tax return (for the original year the invoices should have been received) to be off by several thousand dollars (for inventory and COGS). I ended up having to go back to do an amended tax return for that year - as it created a significant refund due to the client.

Well, you can post to a previous period unless your administrator blocked you from doing so.  If you are the Admin, go into user settings and unblock your self in the Company area of the settings.

I know. I am the administrator at my site, but that's not what I am talking about. I am talking about having the ability to put the actual invoice date in the system for aging purposes. So, my example was this. November is closed and financials have been published. However, you receive an invoice after the close for the closed period, which in this case is November., The only choice you have currently is to use Dec 1 as the earliest invoice date, since December is the open period. Problem is that screws up the aging on the AP invoice. Sage should have a mechanism that allows you to key the actual date of the invoice, but post it in the current period that is open. This keeps the general ledger balances accurate for November, which has already been closed and reported on, but also allows the correct aging of the invoice when you run AP aging or Cash Requirements reports.

A common practice is to leave the period open for 10 days after the close of the month to receive such invoices.  So on December 11th, you run your month end financials.  That gives you time to reconcile accounts and get all the invoices posted. Just a thought.  

If they are later than that and post to the wrong month then you will have to make sure the due date is correct. 

We do that now, but I have multiple sites and we usually don't close until day 15. We do manipulate the due date also, but I am just saying it would be so much nicer for my accounts payable folks to not have to do anything but enter the invoice date and not worry about date manipulation. I'm just saying, this to me,  would be a major improvement in the software. Thanks for your responses though.