two questions .. what is the purpose of accounting date?  Is that just when entered vs actual invoice date?  2nd question.. well 2nd subject question .. HOW plz tell me there is a way .. how can you get Name be the search criteria rather than ID for EVERYTHING .. gl acct, vendor, customer, if I new the ID's by heart I wouldn't need a look up.  HELP!!

The Accounting Date tells you what accounting period the transaction hits your financials.  You can choose whether it is entered, duplicate of the invoice date, etc.

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to do this.

I thought not, I did see the cloud version you could but you loose so much more it's not worth it.  But thank you for confirming.