About Entering Current and Historical Transactions

Accounts Payable can display statistical information for vendor accounts, and vendor groups for the current year and for all the previous years for which you retain the data. You add the historical information you need during setup. Accounts Payable then automatically updates the statistical information every time you post transactions.

To properly set up your Accounts Payable system, you must enter and post the current-year opening balances in your vendor accounts. If you set up partway through a fiscal year, you must also enter and post figures for the current year, up to the present date, and all outstanding transactions. If you want to display and print reports of previous-year data, you must enter those figures during setup as well.

Note: You should delete all general ledger batches created from posting historical transactions. If you post these to your general ledger, you will be duplicating posted transactions.

Entering Outstanding Invoice Balances in Vendor Accounts

You create the opening balances in your vendor accounts by entering them as invoices using the Invoice Entry screen, then posting them.

The opening balance invoice should use the first date of the current fiscal year as the transaction (document) date. You can also import the figures from a spreadsheet or other non-Sage 300 ERP program.

Entering Current-Year Transactions

When you set up an Accounts Payable system part way through a fiscal year, you must enter the transaction data for the current year-to-date.

You can use any of the following method to add current-year transactions:

• Enter data directly in Accounts Payable.

• Import data, then post it using one of the following methods:

  • Post all the current-year transactions, one at a time, period by period.

    This provides full detail for current-year transactions.

  • Post all the transactions for the current period, and the net changes in each vendor's invoice and payment totals for each of the earlier periods in the current year.

    This provides full detail for current-period transactions, and creates accurate balances for previous periods in the current year.

  • Post the net changes in each vendor's invoice and payment totals for each of the periods in the current year.

    This produces accurate balances for each account in each period of the current year, but does not provide transaction detail for the audit trail reports.

  • Post the net change between the opening and current balances for each vendor account.

    This is the quickest method of entering the data, but it does not provide transaction detail for audit trail reports.

Entering Statistics for Previous Years

If you need to add purchase history for previous years to a new Accounts Payable system, you can add it quickly, or import it, using the Vendors and Vendor Groups screens.

You enter statistics by the periods and years specified for the options to keep the data.

For each vendor and vendor group, you can enter the amount and number of:

• Invoices
• Payments
• Discounts taken
• Discounts lost
• Credit notes
• Debit notes
• Adjustments
• Paid invoices

You can also enter the:

• Amount and date of the high and low balance for the current year and previous year
• Largest invoice for the current year and previous year
• Amount and date of the last:
  • Invoice
  • Payment
  • Credit note
  • Debit note
  • Adjustment
  • Discount
• Total invoice amount paid, number of checks, average payment, days to pay, and average days to pay.

You can review the figures in the Vendors and Vendor Groups screens, and you can print them using the Statistics option in the Setup reports for each type of data.

If you do not need historical data right away, you do not have to add it when you set up an Accounts Payable system. The figures are updated automatically each time you post transactions.

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