Expenses - Travel Authorization Accounting Date

We use the Expenses module a fair bit and are seeing issues where Travel Authorizations are being held up because the Accounting Date is incorrect.

What generally happens is:

1. Travel Authorization gets created, accounting date = Today.
2. Travel Authorization gets submitted.
3. A few days pass and the accounting period from step 1 is closed.
4. The Approver cannot Approve, Deny, or Send Back the Travel Authorization because there are errors.
5. The Approver cannot see what the error is because the Accounting Date is not visible on the page.
6. The Travel Authorization is now "stuck" because the Accounting Date cannot be manipulated on a Travel Authorization.