I have been doing the books manually for a limited Company using spreadsheets provided by the accountants.
I want to transfer the data onto SAGE and as there are not too many transactions was going to start from scratch and enter everything rather than take opening balances. I thought it would be a useful exercise in helping with speed etc when using SAGE.
If I do this and set up e submissions for VAT will it prompt me to do a VAT return for the ones I have already done? If so can I not set it up for e submissions until everything is entered and then use todays date as a going forward point?
You can select your required periods for your VAT return in Sage which is great as you don't want to be submitting duplicate VAT returns to HMRC and I don't think that it will stop you submitting your current period. If you want to flag your transactions for VAT without submitting the forms (as I presume these are up to date) then you can do this by going into financials choose VAT and flag the transactions from there.
thanks for this. I had completely forgotten about being able to specify your accounting period, hence this is why I want to take the more long winded approach of transferring everything individually so I can refresh my memory
