For year end accounting purposes we have to provide an Open Payables report to our accountant that shows the Open Payables as of March 31, 2009. We left last year AP open in Ledger so that we could back date Payables to March that pertained to March Receipts. We have since enterred all of the payables that pertain to March Receipts and still have both years open. The problem now is that we printed and cleared the Payables report at the end of April as part of our usual month end procedure. Now when we try to print an Open Payables as of March 31, 2009, we get this message, "Calculate balance as of date is earlier than the last clearning date of 04/30/2009. Do you want to use the last clearning date as the run date?

Is there a way around this? Is there another report that will give us the info we need?

Hi Susan,

At the moment, there is no way to generate a back dated Open Payables report. Sorry.

Do you have a backup from before the period end process was performed?

PS - Will we be seeing you at the upcoming Adagio Opportunity Conference? I know you've found this forum useful, think how much more you'd learn in chatting with the developers (and our technicians) themselves!

Andrew! You've changed your look. Yes - we have back ups. I can use April 30th before the period end was run which will give us most of the payables that were dated back to March. Except for any that were entered in May.

The conference sounds great but not sure if I can get away. Would be a nice opportunity to visit Vancouver. Will look into it.

Hi Susan,

We have to change the file structure to allow arbitrary backdating of these reports - something we've done in AR 9.0A. Sorry to force you to a backup.

You should know that you can fly Toronto-Vancouver return (Sun-Tuesday) for less than $500, and the $995 conference fee includes your two nights at the hotel and a hosted dinner. You wouldn't even have to worry about jet lag - just choosing one of Vancouver's great restaurants for Monday's evening meal!