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3300031 - Balance Carryforward Run Error Message: Period PQR In Fiscal Year YYYY Closed For Closing Step Opening Balance

Symptom

Balance Carryforward Run has completed with the below error message:

Period PQR In Fiscal Year YYYY Closed For Closing Step Opening Balance

(Here PQR refers Accounting Period ID and YYYY refers to Fiscal Year)

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to Periodic Tasks > Balance Carryforward view.
  3. Open the Balance Carryforward run and click on Log Result.
  4. Go to Messages tab and you can see the error message:

Period PQR In Fiscal Year YYYY Closed For Closing Step Opening Balance

Cause

The error is due to First Accounting Period of Fiscal Year YYYY is closed for 010 - Operational Postings. The selected criteria for the First Allowed Step is not correct. For Balance Carryforward run, First Allowed Step should be 001 - Opening balance, so that previous year's closing balance will get transfer to the New Fiscal Year's first accounting period.

Resolution

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to Open and Close Periods view.
  3. Choose the row of Accounting Period PQR for Fiscal Year YYYY.
  4. Change the First Allowed Step to 001 - Opening balance.
  5. Choose Save and Close.

Now you will be able to execute Balance Carryforward run without this error message.

See Also

2437694 - Balance Carryforward Run Error Message: Period XXX In Fiscal Year YYYY Closed For Closing Step Closing Balance

Keywords

Balance carryforward run error, Opening balance, Period in fiscal year closed , KBA , balance carryforward , closing step , opening balance , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions