Billing document date and accounting document date varying...

Hello Experts,
There is one billing document and the date of invoice is, say today, 12/01/2009. and the accounting document date is, say 15 days ahead or behind, 27/01/2009.however, the posting date is proper and according to the billing date and that is again dated today-12/01/209. Now, the user wants to know why the difference exists between the accounting document date and the billing date. any idea? there are some user exits being used but I cant make out, neither the abaper. suggestions please.
Regards,
N.Raja Sekhar.

Dear Raja Sekhar
Document date is nothing but the date on which that particular transaction has taken place.  But I dont know where you get the date as 27-01-2009.
It is a general practice that for exports billing document, there would be a Posting block and once the exporter receives the B/L, based on that date, the billing document would be released manually.  For this, there is an user exit to input the B/L number and date and release the billing document.
So here, what the end users normally does is that the B/L Date might be on 02-01-2009 but he would not have updated on the same date.  At a later date, say on 12-01-2009, he can input the B/L Date (in another words, it is Posting date) as 02-01-09 and execute the billing document.
If you see the accounting document here, the posting date would have been 02-01-2009 but the document date would be 12-01-09.
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

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