Well I've done something rather stupid. I didn't save the last vat return in VT and of course when I run it for the same period now I have different figures as I have since posted additional expenses to that period. I saved it to a folder and sent my client a copy but not the actual Vat Return in VT. The only thing I can think of doing is deleting the transactions I posted after I prepared the vat return , save the vat return to the hard copy I have and then re-enter them. Or is there a better way?
think that we've all done that one at some stage or another.
yep, thats the way to do it. Delete, recreate the return, reinput the transactions.
I think that is the one nice thing about the front page being in entry sequence in that you can simply drop to spreadsheet mode and copy and paste to Excel before deleting the transactions and then put them back either manually (as I tend to do) or via the Universal Input screen (which I really have got to get more used to using on a more regular basis).
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Shaun
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"you can simply drop to spreadsheet mode and copy and paste to Excel before deleting the transactions and then put them back"
Handy to know - as long as they haven't done something silly so that the copy and paste ONLY works with Excel.
I'll need to do this for the company I started using VT Cashbook with - at their request, I did a VAT return for them (and handed it to them to submit) from 1/1 - 31/3 because they were under the impression they were VAT registered from the start of the year.
I've since discovered that their VAT registration didn't start until 1/3, and the first return is to be a four month one running from then until the end of June. (And they're on the flat rate scheme, to boot, which they didn't say before - I've never done anything on that before, but I'll work that out easily enough.)
Thankfully, they're a very small company!
What can we learn from this? When a client tells you something, check it, double check it, get it in writing, double check that, then subject the client to water boarding to be absolutely sure.
Okay, maybe not the last bit - that's probably just my secret desire, or something.
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no, it's generic. I just tend to use the brand name Excel the same as people use the word Hoover to describe a vacuum cleaner.
Whilst there are options to load the data from Excel those are not available in the cashbook software. The dropping to a spreadsheet would in such instance purely be to ensure that you can ensure that you put back exactly what you took out.
Actually, not sure how with Cashbook you get a list of everything that you've done in the sequence that you did it.
If you've not trialed VT Transaction+ you could open your .vtr file in a trial of that (cashbook being just a very cut down version of VT+)
Alternatively, if you want you could send me the .vtr file and I could drop your data to a format that your spreadsheet software can read.
all the best,
Shaun.
p.s. I find kidnapping their first born and exchanging them for the information required, normally on a misty bridge at dawn, tends to work particularly well!
p.s.2 If you want me to extract the data copy the client file first to a different name, open it and change the company properties to a different company. Such avoids any client confidentiality issues.
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Shouldn't be a problem - I can use VT Transaction+ if necessary.
I'm beyond the 60 day free trial, having never actually tried it, but the price isn't huge - and good value since it's not using the Sage company-tax approach to pricing; so I'm happy to purchase it when I actually sit down to do that particular job.
It'll make that job a loss - but if I use it for any others in future (and I do have one in mind, thinking about it) I'm onto a winner.
Edit: I don't go in for kidnapping. The problem with that is you have to keep the asset alive and well before handing them back (occasional removed fingers or ears to demonstrate seriousness aside, of course)
-- Edited by VinceH on Thursday 2nd of July 2015 12:55:02 PM
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