Has the usage of the "As of Date" on the general ledger definition page been changed with the upgrad

Has the usage of the "As of Date" on the general ledger definition page been changed with the upgrade to Financials 9.2? It appears that it is controlling the period of our nVision reports and to the best of our knowledge, never used too.

What we found was that the number of period in a year is not effective dated like they confirmed. but we also had additional problems where nVision 2-tier would run using correct override dates but the Application nVision kept creating the same period report regardless of online overrides.

We tracked it down to the G/L business unit date and nVision is using it regardless of overrides.