I’m wondering if there is a way to pull out any transactions in a period that have not been entered onto a vat return.
For example, If I run a vat report for a 3 month period and later have to enter purchases during the vat period, after it has been submitted, is there a way to identify these transactions?
I know you can export the transactions that have been used to calculate a vat return, but is there a way to get a report showing which transactions, for whichever reason (such as late entry) are in the reporting period, but which haven’t been picked up on that particular vat return.
Hope you can help, thanks
PS, I know that Sage has such a report and it prompts when you run a return that there are some transactions from the previous period that have not been included in the previous vat return. It asks if you want to incude them in the current vat return.
You could run a dummy vat return for the same period to pick up anything that isn’t already locked in. For this you would need to remove your online filing settings first. Otherwise it will prompt you to do a VAT return for the next open period.
I can’t think of another way that would easily distinguish the transactions. I will have a think and get back to you if I have a brainwave!
You could just view sales/purchases for the period. Anything not locked by the VAT return will be items that have not been included. You have to click into each transaction though so this could be quite laborious if you have a lot of sales/purchases.
The simplest way would be to go into the vat preparation screen for your next return, export the detail from there, and then you should be able to see at a glance in the CSV any entries dated before the start of that quarter.