Malcom Ziman,

I respectfully disagree that the vendor's bill date isn't important in an accounting system.  Say a vendor provided a service in the month of November.  I would want to "book" that expense in the month of November (the old matching principal).  However, if the vendor doesn't invoice me until 12/15 and has 30 day payment terms, that vendor bill isn't due until 1/15.  Service date and billing date are generally two different periods and people who book invoices just when the vendor bill arrives are actually more on the cash basis than on the accrual basis.  It would be a very simple fix for QB to have a service date/GL Posting date (to get the expense correct) and a bill date.  Since terms for that vendor are already set up in the vendor profile, once we enter the vendor invoice date correctly, the AP due date will automatically populate.  This is the way accrual accounting should work.  And this wouldn't be a difficult fix for QB to make!