Historical Data

Accounts payable allows you to determine the number of months of history to keep for several types of data. Vendor History shows the total purchases, disbursements, and discounts for each vendor by month. You may choose to keep Vendor History in either calendar or fiscal year format. Processed Invoices history retains information such as date, apply to, amount, and amount paid for each invoice processed. This information is used to prevent duplicate payments for a single invoice. Transaction History saves invoice, payment and adjustment information for each vendor. Transaction Control history records Operator ID, Journal Code, Number of Transactions, Total Amount Posted, and other information about each transaction control group posted.

The advantage of saving data for an extended period of time is that it allows you online access to more information. The disadvantage of saving historical data is that it requires more disk space and may possibly have a negative impact on system performance.