1. Making Tax Digital – VAT Form 100 Datafile 2019 and above Making Tax Digital is a part of the government’s plans to make it easier for individuals and businesses to get their tax right and keep on top of their affairs.  Every business now has access to their own personal... Read More
2. VAT Adjustments - Post-Dated Purchase Invoices Post-Dated Purchase Invoices The Datafile Purchase Ledger allows posting to the current purchase ledger period and one future period. If you receive a purchase invoice for an earlier period that has now been closed, you can post that transaction... Read More
3. VAT Adjustments - Partial VAT Exemption Scheme Partial VAT Exemption Scheme (VAT Notice 706) A business is partially exempt if it makes, or intends to make, both taxable and exempt supplies and incurs tax on costs that relate to both.  If your business is partially exempt, then you may ... Read More
4. Cashbook - Global Transaction References Global Transaction References   When posting Receipts and Payments within the Cashbook then the system has the option to increment references – historically this has been used for paying in slip references for receipts and cheque numbers or p... Read More
5. Reverse Journals - Continue to Next Entry Datafile Software Solutions Reverse Journals - Continue to Next Entry Historically the Nominal Journal Reference was a four-digit number. Whilst we now allow a six-digit reference, many users still use a four-digit value and, as such, have lo... Read More
6. Trial Balance - Omit Zero Value Accounts Datafile Software Solutions Trial Balance - Omit Zero Value Accounts When printing the Trial Balance the system reports all nominal accounts subject to selection criteria. Where you have a coded structure you may have a number of accounts wit... Read More
7. Customer and Supplier Default Bank Accounts Datafile Software Solutions Customer and Supplier Default Bank Accounts Sales and Purchase Accounts can optionally have a default bank account recorded against them that applies during receipt and payment entry in the posting options within the i... Read More
8. Additional Display Options for Nominal / Cashbook Enquiry Datafile Software Additional Display Options for Nominal / Cashbook Enquiry The Ledger Enquiry facilities for the Sales, Purchase, Stock and Job enquiries allow options to set the transaction grid to display the different transaction types in se... Read More
9. Unpresented Listing for Currency Bank Accounts Datafile Software Unpresented Listing for Currency Bank Accounts The Nominal Ledger and Cashbook reports primarily report values using the base currency of the system.Selected reports have a secondary reporting option to run the report detailing... Read More
10. Column Headings for Financial Summaries Spreadsheet Output Datafile Software Column Headings for Financial Summaries Spreadsheet Output When you output a ‘full-mode’ financial summary to Excel/OpenOffice the system uses the balance item as the column heading. However, for special balance item... Read More