Finance Dates differences - Entry date, Posting date, Document date etc..

Entry Date - System Date on which document is entered

Document Date - Date of the supporting document ie PO/
invoice/ Bill date

Posting date - date on which entry is posted to the ledger
or accounting date 

Value date - the date on which doc is valued. ie for forex
valuation the value date is needed for calculating the
exchange rate difference

Next run date - this is for payment run. what the next day
for calculating the payment due document and discount
calculation 

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