Dale,
I would say yes to you question.
Yes, your ledger will be messed up in the way that you will have to restate all the Financial papers that you may have run and already audited on (Income statement, Balance Sheet and perhaps your Cash flow analysis) for all the months after the period you will post cash for (back dated).
Your ledger, per say, will be OK, but all financial papers won't be worth the paper that they are printed on.
Is it worth it for you to go that way?
Can't you post it to the current period and have your accountants explain what happen; such as: Accounts Receivable and Sales are overstated for this month because we are booking sales that really should have been booked 2 months ago. That should satisfy anyone reading your financial statements.
Knowing what is going on now with companies having to restate their statements (IBM, GE, TYCO, ENRON, etc..)I would not backpost anything that would require restatement of Financial papers.
Also, if the "As of" file generation is using the "date created" stamp given when a record is created, yes it would not pick up these transactions, however if it is using G/L date therefore it will pick them up.
All this blob just to tell you not to do it.
Good luck....
OWman
XE, Oracle, SP16, Sun