Palladium Accounting will use your Windows regional settings to retrieve currency symbols and date formats. If you wish to use a different format, please go into your Windows control panel > regional settings and adjust the format there. After you restart Palladium the new settings will be used.  Optionally you can access the regional setttings under your company menu in the 2009 versions, or in the Palladium control panel in the 2010 versions.