Financial Year - Dates and Problems
Are you having problems with entering dates into the program, or have you set the program up with the wrong dates for your Financial Year.
Problems Entering Dates
Are you seeing this error:
The two most common reasons you might be experiencing issues when entering dates are:
- You are trying to enter a date outside of your current financial year
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Or your country and regional settings of your windows operating system are not correct
Financial Year
Obviously if you are attempting to enter a date outside of your current financial year then the error message is appropriate.
Regional Settings
The EasyAs program uses the settings provided by the windows operating system to determine how to use the information you enter into the date columns.
This error can also arise if you are attempting to enter a date within the current financial year but as far as the program is concerned it is still not within the financial year according to settings..
To explain this; in Australia we enter our dates in this format dd.mm.yy but in many other countries the date is entered as mm.dd.yy
A problem will arise if for example the regional settings of windows is set to United States, and someone in Australia attempts to enter a date such as 28th February 2010. You would enter it as 28 02 10 but the system is set to the US so it is reading it as 28th Month, 2nd Day or 2010. Obviously there is no 28th month in the current year so it brings up this error.
An easy way to see if this is a possible regional setting issue is to simply enter you date by switching your day and month around. If you are in Australia try entering using the format of mm.dd.yy and if it works when you enter in the US format then its obvious the regional settings are incorrect. The same sort of test should work no matter where in the world you are.
Changing Your Regional Settings
It is not possible for us to be able to instruct you on how to check your regional settings as there are too many differences between operating systems.
But there is a similar process, so I will provide you with the method I used for this machine, so you should get a fair idea of how to go about it.
This machine has the Windows XP operating system.
The Regional Settings are usually located in the control panel, this should be the same for all systems.
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