Wondering how everyone else deals with this issue.
The Format for recording the date of the receipt. Some companies use Month / Day / Year others use Day / Month / Year and others use Year / Month / Day
How does everyone deal with this problem. If I have a couple of dozen receipts here and start to record them, I often have several where I am practically guessing.
How do you deal with this issue?
Thanks,
posted to Alt.accounting as well
Use your best guess.
By looking at the country the document came from. In the USA we use Day/Month/Year.
Not much help in Canada, Allan. The official format is the same as the official UN format, yyyy/mm/dd, but it's used inconsistently by the government and less frequently by anyone else. By my casual observation, it appears that the US format is most common, but many businesses favour dd/mm/yyyy which I believe is preferred in Europe.
"Allan Mart> By looking at the country the document came from. In the USA we use > Day/Month/Year.
Opps, sorry for the typo but the US uses Month/Day/Year. Now I see why the OP is so confused.
Thanks for the input guys,
I guess I will keep the the assuption that it is mm/dd/yr when in doubt I will have to use best guess.
Can the date format be changed in quickbooks?
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No. As a general rule, QB uses the Windows "short" date format, which you can change in Windows Control Panel.
However I have noticed at least a couple of places where QB sticks stubbornly to the US "mm/dd/yyyy" format even if you have selected a different Windows format. One such example is the Loan Manager which has some characteristics of a tacked-on after-thought; this is one of several features that differ somewhat in different countries, so experience may vary in other countries. (I believe that Scraps is using a Canadian edition, as I am.)
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