Comment 6 for bug 523080

Vicent,

I think the problem is that it depends on your country whether the date must match the period.

In Spain, at the begun of the year, when you receive invoices from the last year (i.e. sent by a supplier on 29/12/2009, but received by you on 04/01/2010) you have to use not only the period of the last year, but also the original date of the invoice (29/12/2009 not 04/01/2010) at least for the accounting entries (spanish accounting programs usually have 2 dates for supplier invoices: the original 'invoice date' and the 'reception date'; the same is true for supplier packing lists and sale orders).

Just think of this: Spanish "Hacienda" (the Treasury Department) might check those invoice dates against your supplier invoice dates and they have to match on quantities and dates.

But the payments of those invoices are encoded on the periods of the payments date. If you pay the invoice on 29/05/2010 (yeah, in Spain some invoices are paid at 180 or more days), it has to be registered on the second period of 2010 (given you use 3-months periods), not on 2009.

That's why I say that somehow it has to be configurable.