Sage 200 allows the user to enter a previous journal that will allow the adjustments of the closing balances, which is fine if the year this journal relates to is the one prior to the current financial year. If the user enters a journal date of 31/12/2013 then the system will create the journal and update period 12 of the correct financial year, which is also fine. What the system however does not do is correctly update the closing balances for year 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, which means any reporting on financial years - using either the report designer or some form of ODBC reporting is incorrect. Something as simple as running the prior year Trial Balance shows an incorrect balance for the account that was affected by this, which means that this report has now become useless and misleading and cannot be used for business decisions. Therefore, the wish is that either you remove the ability to generate a prior year journal for periods prior to the prior year (i.e. 2 years ago etc) or you update the closing balances for all financial years affected in line with accounting requirements so that the reports are reporting correctly.
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