Question on Financial Sanction process

Hello,

We are on PeopleSoft 9.2. We are attempting to run the Financial Sanction process on a supplier. If a certain supplier matches with the Sanction list, the sanction status in the Identifying Information page( Supplier) is updated to REVIEW. When the user changes that status to Clear, 2 fields become available-

Suppliers >> Supplier Information>> Add/Update> Supplier>> Identifying Information ( Financial Sanction Status)

1. Days before next validation

2. Skip future validation

We don't want to skip future validation but need to put a number (>0) in the other field. We have scheduled the Sanction process to run once a month. Does the number of days in the field( Days before next validation) include the day when the process runs. In other words, if today i.e. 6/24, the user wants to clear the status before the next run of the sanction process ( which is 7/5), then will the correct value be 12( including today & the day of the run). As per my understanding, the correct value is essential because it