If you use VAT cash accounting, how do you know which transactions have not had the VAT filed and paid? I am looking through Quickbooks and Xero and cannot see how to do it. If I move to a new accounting programme, how do I bring the unfiled bits of the unfiled transactions across?
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Debtors and creditors
It would be easier to transfer to new system following a VAT return quarter. Then trade debtors and trade creditors, as at the transfer date, should be the only transactions with outstanding VAT to account for (pay/reclaim). Enter them as net, vat, gross in new system with original dates (making sure system set to cash accounting first).
Otherwise you will need to include all cash book entries from date of last VAT retrun in addition to debtors and creditors.