diff --git a/addons/account/account.py b/addons/account/account.py
index f6dd36c01fc..d9a62296a6e 100644
--- a/addons/account/account.py
+++ b/addons/account/account.py
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ class account_journal(osv.osv):
         'currency': fields.many2one('res.currency', 'Currency', help='The currency used to enter statement'),
         'entry_posted': fields.boolean('Skip \'Draft\' State for Manual Entries', help='Check this box if you don\'t want new journal entries to pass through the \'draft\' state and instead goes directly to the \'posted state\' without any manual validation. \nNote that journal entries that are automatically created by the system are always skipping that state.'),
         'company_id': fields.many2one('res.company', 'Company', required=True, select=1, help="Company related to this journal"),
-        'allow_date':fields.boolean('Check Date not in the Period', help= 'If set to True then do not accept the entry if the entry date is not into the period dates'),
+        'allow_date':fields.boolean('Check Date in Period', help= 'If set to True then do not accept the entry if the entry date is not into the period dates'),
     }
 
     _defaults = {