Unapply and Posting Dates

JDVyska

I'm not sure if this is a functionality question, an accounting question, or both.

I have a customer that is starting to use the unapply functionatity, but is concerned about something. If they have an invoice due in January and apply payment to it in January, but then discover in February that the payment was for another invoice, and unapply/reapply it, the Application entries in the Detailed Customer Ledger Entry table have the posting date of the original application.

Thus, if they re-run an aging for January, that Invoice will now show on it as open (in detail), balanced by the open payment.

What they would rather see is the reversing Application entries be dated the Posting Date of Unapplication so they have a proper trail of what date something was unapplied, especially if it is several months later. They understand that this would mean that the Aging Detail would show the invoice closed for January and then Open again in February.

Is there any reason anyone can think of not to accomodate this modification from a Navision functionality standpoint?

Jeremy

ara3n

I don't see a problem with that from development point of view. I would double check all the customer reports and make sure they are ok.

themave

Yes, I can think of one, if you overide this and allow Navision to do it. Then you may trigger an audit problem, because this has the potential to manipulate the financial statements. It would be hard to convince an auditor that Navision complies with generaly accepted account priciples (US) or accounting requirments of other countries, if it doesn't, which this would cause.