Accounts Software VAT Changes 2010
The standard VAT rate will be returning to 17.5% from 1st January 2010 so you will need to make changes to your accounts software. We have created a number of help sheets and made utilities available to make the changes as easy as possible.
These help sheets cover Pegasus Opera II, Pegasus Capital Gold, Pegasus CIS, IRIS Exchequer, Sage 200 Suite as well as KCPOS (and any accounts packages which link to it and ProspectSoft CRM.
All details of the 2010 VAT changes can be found at www.hbpsystems.co.uk/vatchanges
Opera II Helpsheet: How to Change the Nominal Calendar
Over the past few years we have been sending out Helpsheets to our customers which help them to carry out tasks within their Pegasus Opera II accounting software. This Helpsheet covers 'Changing the Nominal Calendar'.
Pegasus Opera II - Changing Nominal Calendar
If you change to a different financial year end date (so the current financial year is no longer equivalent to a calendar year in length), the application determines the following year end date and period start dates according to the number of days in the current financial year.
The statutory changes required are outlined below:
It uses this information to calculate how many days adjustment to apply to the new financial calendar when you use the Year End command. You can override any of the dates calculated in this way on the Calendar tab, and use the Rebuild Periods and Rebuild History commands to update the database.

