I dont know if anyone can clear this one up for us or advise as even Sage themselves cannot give me a proper answer.

Our Financial Year end is 31st May.  We have done our Year end stock take.  As we are such a busy company, we are still catching up with inputing sales invoicing and purchase invoicing.

Now as far as I know we cannot run our year end stock take on Sage until we are completely caught up with sales invoicing etc as obviously sales invoicing depletes stock.  So we need to be right up to date with all sales up to 31st May 2013.  What we would then normally do ( once we had caught up and lets say that date would happen to be June12th! ) is then do the " Change Program Date " back to 31st May 2013 and then input the stock check.

Since 31st May we are still trading of course but now not completing any sales orders which would generate invoices, or inputting any stock into goods received until we have done the year end stock take.

Is this the correct manner in which this should be done.  Surely Sage can understand when a stock year end is being done and what stock it takes into consideration even if some goods in have been received after the year end!?

We have Sage Support but have had 2 conflicting answers.

Can you just carry on trading as normal using sage to generate sales orders, generate invoices and post them depleting stock as well as still receiving goods in?