Cash to Accrual VAT

[Tracey.C]

I am changing from cash accounting to accrual account for VAT, when I am preparing the VAT return, it wants to pull in all the historic transactions already claimed. How do I stop this and what do I do.
Thanks

[ian_roberts]

Someone asked the same question going the other way quite recently:

Switching VAT accrual to Cash

Hi Am about to submit another VAT return. My accountant has asked me to move from accrual to cash accounting. I have changed the information in the VAt details section and downloaded to Quickfile calculations. Obviously, there is information there that has already been submitted previously. I am just not sure how to change the information so it just includes the relevant information so I am not duplicating! I note from a previous post that changing the date? but not sure what date and where. …

Other direction but the principle is the same - cash accounting works with payments whereas accrual works with invoices, so you’ll have to make manual adjustments on your first post-switch return to make sure everything is accounted for exactly once and nothing twice.

You’ll have to exclude any sales or purchase invoices dated before the start of your current quarter, add back any that were raised in previous quarters but not paid until this one, and also exclude any that were raised this quarter but paid in advance before the quarter start. And that’s assuming no partial payments.