Symptom
How to add a Shortend Fiscal Year Variant to a Set of Books.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Resolution
- Go to Business Configuration workcenter.
- Go to Implementation projects view.
- Select the Project and click on Open Activity List
- Select the fine tuning activity Other Fiscal Year.
- Create a New Fiscal Year Variant.
- On the new screen, enter the data <XYZ>, Description, Number for Accounting Periods = <012> and mark the option Year-specific fiscal year variant.
- After doing this you will get the new variant in the previous screen.
- Navigate to the Deviant Fiscal Year and enter the information Fiscal year = 20XX & Number of Accounting Periods = 0XY(the requires shortend periods).
- Navigate to the Period Details
- Perform the action Generate Accounting Periods for Specific Fiscal Year and enter 20XX
- This will generate the periods and now you have to adjust the start date and end date accordingly.
- Once you change the dates of all the 0XY periods, press enter.
- Perform the action Generate Accounting Periods for Specific Fiscal Year and enter 20XX +1.
- This will automatically populate the rest of the periods which you require and that will be of subsequent 12 periods.
- Save the New fiscal Year variant.
- Go to Integrate and Extend in Business Configuration workcenter.
- Select the activity Set of Books.
- Create a New Set of books and here you have to maintain 'XYZ' as the Fiscal Year Varaint.
See Also
Keywords
KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To
Product
SAP Business ByDesign all versions