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2723736 - Is it Possible to Change the Company Currency in the New Fiscal year ?

Symptom

Is it possible to change the Company currency in the new Fiscal year if the Fiscal year do not have any postings?

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Business Configuration Work center.
  2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  3. Go to the Project and Choose Open Activity List.
  4. Go to Integrate and Extend and search for Set of books.
  5. Go to Company Settings.

Cause

Since there are already postings in the past belonging to the Company,it does not allow to change the Company currency in the New Fiscal year

Resolution

It is recommended to create a new Company with new Company currency.

It is not suggested to create a new Set of Books in the existing Company as all source documents such as Customer/Supplier invoices, Deliveries, Goods/Services receipts are only posted as a Journal entry in existing Set of Books.

For the new Set of Books, a kind of a Migration of this existing Source documents to get them posted in the new Set of Books as well is needed. However, currently this type of Migration does not exist in the system.

Keywords

Company Currency, New Fiscal year, Set of Books , KBA , company currency , fiscal year , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions