You are not required by the program to close periods, however, there are many month-end activities that can be performed if you wish to do so. The following is a list of those procedures, which may or may not be necessary for your company.

General Ledger

  • Specify system-wide and user-specific Posting Date ranges. Depending on your business needs, you may want to restrict user posting date ranges at the start of the period-end process.

Sales & Receivables

Purchases & Payables

Fixed Assets

Intercompany

VAT and Intrastat

Tasks to be Performed Sequentially

The following processes, which affect Manufacturing, Inventory, and General Ledger, should be performed sequentially.

Manufacturing

  1. All Consumption and Output has been posted

  2. All completed Production Orders have been changed to a status of Finished

Inventory

  1. Make all necessary inventory adjustments using the item journal

  2. Run the Adjust Cost - Item Entries batch job

  3. Run the Post Inventory Cost to G/L batch job

  4. Run the Inventory Valuation report and reconcile Inventory and COGS to the general ledger

  5. Reconcile WIP to the general ledger

General Ledger

  1. Make all necessary G/L adjustments

  2. Update and post Recurring Journals

  3. Process Consolidations

  4. Run Account Schedules:

  5. Specify system-wide and user-specific Posting Date ranges.

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