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

Symptom

You want to know if you can 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 you 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 we would need a kind of a Migration of this existing Source documents to get them posted in the new Set of Books as well. This type of Migration does not exist in the system.

Keywords

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

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 1802 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1805 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1808 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1811 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1902 ; SAP Business ByDesign 2002 ; SAP Business ByDesign 2005 ; SAP Business ByDesign 2008