Accumulate Purchase History
Use the Accumulate Purchase History option to keep information about the items you have purchased and the vendors who supplied them. The option also keeps information about credit notes, debit notes, and items you returned.
You can view the information in the Purchase History form, use the History button to look it up when you are entering transactions, and print it on the Purchase History report.
Selecting the type of year. Purchase Orders keeps purchase history by the type of year (fiscal or calendar) and period you select using the Accumulate By and Period Type options on the Processing tab of the Options form.
If you choose to accumulate by calendar year, the starting date for the year will be January 1. If you accumulate by fiscal year, the starting date will be the first day of your fiscal year.
Selecting the type of period. You can also keep the data for up to 53 periods per year (54 periods in a leap year), for any number of years. Use the Period Type option to select from these period types: weekly (Sunday = day 1), seven days (beginning on the first day of the week in your fiscal calendar), bi-weekly (Sunday = day 1), four weeks, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, annually, or fiscal period (use the Period Type option).
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