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I used the backup function and restored my accounts into 2.4.  Problem is solved. Also the language settings are ok now.

Have still issues with the time zone settings. I did not change anything. There is nothing to change in line 50 of the config.php and config.default.php file as asked in both warnings. "date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in bestand: /hsphere/local/home/a986034/debeesnv.com/frontaccounting/config.php op regel50"

My timezone is CET Brussels but the server is situated in the US
Time and date used by frontaccounting is correct.

When doing business with a strange company Vat number must always be verified to be valid .
The date base must not serve the verification of validation of VAT numbers but to eliminate the possibility for errors in the format. That the correct number of numbers and letters for that country are submit. Each country has his format for the VAT number beginning with the country letters. For Belgium BE 0 448 910 654. country-code BE followed by  0 and nine numbers. It is to verifier the format of the number, not the VAT number validation. To eliminate typing errors. VAT may become unclaimable when the number is not correct entered.

Waiting for the EU VAT problem to be solved to move my accounts to FA.  My hopes are on the release of FA 2.4. Any idea when?

The Trial balance gives only the amounts for the accounts but does not give totals for sub-groups and groups. I did not enter a starting balance. I am just trying out the account tree I made by making some entries.

http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/traders/invoicing_rules/index_en.htm

Second Directive on VAT Invoicing (Council Directive 2010/45/EU) and Explanatory Notes

The second Directive on VAT invoicing was adopted on 13 July 2010 and  its provisions shall be applied by Member States as from 1 January 2013.

It aims to promote and further simplify invoicing rules by removing existing burdens and barriers. It establishes equal treatment between paper and electronic invoices without increasing the administrative burden on paper invoices and has the aim to promote the uptake of e-invoicing by allowing freedom of choice regarding the invoicing method.

For a clear understanding of the main VAT invoicing rule changes as from 1 January 2013 a set of Explanatory Notespdf Choose translations of the previous link has been written in 21 languages.

How to implement the VAT claimable date in FA?

Rental of real estate is VAT exempt but the rent must show in the VAT declaration. Rental of equipment is 21% VAT in Belgium.
Based on the rental contract the rent is paid in advance for a period of 3 months. Once paid, the VAT claimable date will be the date the payment was received and an invoice must be made before the 15é of the following month. When the invoice is received the VAT tax can be booked for the paid period as shown on the invoice. When the rent was not paid for, invoice must be made for the consumed TAX- period and booked in this period. Invoice date and VAT-tax claimable date will be the same.

There is a subscription on a monthly magazine payable in advance each 3 months. The subscriber forgets to pay but because he is  a good costumer the next number was send to him. The VAT tax claimable date will be the date the magazine was send and the invoice for one magazine must be made before the 15é of next month. The invoice must be booked in the invoice date Tax period, As long the subscription was not paid for but magazines are send each month there will be an invoice each month. When the subscription was paid after the VATtax of the first month became claimable the next invoice will show the VAT-tax claimable date of the received payment.
This is how I implement the new Vat regulation.
In Belgium VAT declaration is before the 20é day of the month following the TAX period ( 1 or 3 month)

The above is for VAT tax declaration.
For income tax the normal accounting rules for your country apply.

Please comment.

These are EU rules and must be the same for all EU countries within the community. They where implemented from 01 jan 2013.
When for example the electric company sends each 3 months an invoice as advance on the yearly billing  they can do this only after the electricity for that period  was delivered, they may not send you an invoice any-more for an advance on the delivery of electricity. If they send you a bill ( not a legal invoice) for an advance on delivery they can only make an invoice and book it when you have paid the bill. The costumer has to wait for the legal invoice which he can book immediately because it was paid for even not delivered.
When the same invoice is not paid by the costumer  the electric company must book the invoice because they have delivered but the costumer may only book that part of the invoice that has been delivered in the taxable period. When the taxable period is also 3 month but the moths do not correspond, only for the corresponding period VAT-tax is claimable.

Booking the same invoice under two dates is forbidden. Invoices may be made and booked only when the VAT- tax becomes claimable because bookings may show only the claimable VAT and not the VAT you may be entitled to. A seller can make a legal invoice only when the goods or services where delivered or the costumer has already paid for them as shown on his bank-account. Purchases may be booked the moment  the legal invoice, with VAT-tax claimable date, arrived and the goods or services are received or have been really paid for, shown by the bank summary.  So the GL accounts may show the booking on the date the legal invoice is made. This is for the VAt-tax and for net it should be the same because the legal invoice with VAT tax claimable date is the only valuable document on which the bookings may be based.

When each country will implement these new rules on there own way, nothing will change.
For the moment the directions in Belgium are as stated above.
This is not easy writing and as I am Dutch speaking I hope my English is good enough.
Thanks for the reply.

In practice invoices are made and/or booked after the VAT tax becomes claimable, so the invoice date is always later or the same as VAT tax date. GL accounts may be booked when the invoice can be booked. The VAT date is de date goods or services are delivered or recieved  or the date they are paid for as shown on the bank summary; So, when the goods are paid in advance the VATtax date is de date the payment shows on the bank summary.
AR/AP can only be booked when the invoice is booked because these are, together with the bank summary's, the legal documents to prove transactions.
wich prove the booked transactions.

In may case negative bookings are not the solution. The VAT-tax must show as payable and deductible on the proper accounts so they must be booked debit and credit. The amounts must show on the balance.
As I stated before. Accounting-books  must show at all times the real situation of the company and negative bookings must be avoided as much as possible, if not avoided at all. Questions may be asked about negative bookings. An accountant who uses negative bookings? That's why credit notes are created.
Booking a suppliers invoice should be a simple process because nothing has to be calculated. FA is a good ERP system and not an accounting program, therefore there is an other approach about the way things are done. Making it more difficult is not the answer.
To solve EU, non EU purchases and other received non VAT invoices where VAT must be declared by the receiver of the goods   I need  TAXcategories which can be assigned a creditable account and a debitable account, as it is now, but the VAT tax must be booked automatically to both accounts, credit and debit, when the supplier is assigned to that specific TAX category. Is this possible?