You can differentiate the opening and closing of posting periods by account type. This means that for a specific posting period, postings can be permitted to customer accounts, but not to vendor accounts. You can exercise more detailed control by specifying further account types.
Using the minimum entry, when you enter the posting date in the document header, the system checks whether the posting period determined in the posting period variant can be posted to. As soon as you then enter an account number, in a second step, the system checks whether the posting period is permitted for the account specified. You can differentiate the opening and closing of posting periods by account intervals. If you want to open subledger accounts, you have to enter the corresponding reconciliation account and the account type.
This allows you to prevent further postings to these accounts after you have confirmed the balances with your customers and vendors. Balance confirmation is one of the prerequisites for further closing operations. Use the transaction OB52 to maintain it. You define a posting period variant and assign it to various Company Codes. Since the posting period variant is cross-Company Code, the opening and closing of the posting period are made simple.
Instead of opening and closing individually for different Company Codes, you just need to open or close the posting period variant. It is possible to selectively control the opening and closing for various types of accounts. Now, for the GL S accounts, you will need to specify the period which needs to be opened. Select account types can also be opened or closed for a specific period; select accounts within an account type can also be opened or closed. Besides the normal posting periods, SAP allows for defining a maximum of four more posting periods, which are known as Special Periods as these are used for year-end closing activities.
This is achieved by dividing the last posting period into more than one maximum four period. However, all the postings in these special periods should fall within the last posting period. The special periods cannot be determined automatically by the system based on the posting date of the document. Posting periods are defined in the Fiscal year variant and the SAP system usually proposes the current date as posting date. To prevent the documents getting posted on to an incorrect posting period, you can close certain posting periods.
Special posting periods that subdivide the last regular posting period for closing operations. Irrespective of how we have defined our fiscal year, we can also use special periods. Special periods subdivide the year-end closing period.
They therefore merely divide the last posting period into several closing periods. We will mention the SAP transactions and tables that are relevant for this process. SAP FI posting periods are used to open and close periods of a financial year. Posting periods are maintained in a posting period variant that is assigned to a company code. One posting period variant can be assigned to more than one company code.
Posting periods can be maintained for each account type, i. Three configuration steps are required to enable assignment of SAP FI posting periods variant to a company code as explained below. Define variants for open SAP FI posting periods In this step, we will create a 4-digits alphanumeric code for a posting period variant.
Posting periods variants created in the previous step need to be assigned to a company code. SAP FI posting periods should be maintained against the posting period variant.
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