Close a posting period to the next year
- The chart of accounts and trial balance must be in balance before you can close to the next year.
- You must have at least 1 equity account classification code to close the fiscal year.
You can use the
Year End Close
screen to specify how the application should update budgets for the new year, to choose closing options, and to specify the distribution of net income and balance sheet accounts.Closing a year prevents adjustments during that period. Select a client, then follow these instructions.
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- The firstYear End Closescreen opens automatically when you select (from theChange Posting Periodscreen) a period end date that's in the next year.
- If theZero account balancescheckbox isn't marked in the firstYear End Closescreen, the application opens a subsequentYear End Closescreen when you selectOK.
- Although you can't select a default closing account, the application does save year-end close distributions each year.
- SelectActions, thenChange Posting Period.
- Select the year after your client's current processing period.
- Select the next posting period.
- SelectOK.noteIf there was no activity for the client in the current year, the application automatically advances to the next year without opening any other windows.
- Set up the budget for the next posting period and make changes to closing options if you need them.
- Mark theCarry forward tickmarkscheckbox to have the application copy all tickmarks associated with a general ledger account within the source period to the destination period. If you have worked in the destination period at any time, this checkbox is grayed out and unavailable.
- Mark theCarry forward WP referencescheckbox to have the application copy all workpapers references that were added to the Trial Balance WP reference column. You can use theView Maintenancescreen to add this column to the trial balance. Note that the first time you move the period, the application prompts you to choose whether or not to carry forward WP references. To maintain consistency in the client data, the same selection is applied automatically—and the option becomes unavailable (grayed)—when you move to a prior period and then back again.
- Mark theZero account balancescheckbox to reset the beginning balances for all balance sheet accounts (CA, CL, NPE, EQ, NCA, LTL) to 0 for the next year. You shouldn't mark this option if you perform bank account reconciliations for this client.
- Mark theClose accounts by individual segmentscheckbox to close the year by account segment rather than by core account. This enables you to distribute net income by primary account segment during the year end close process.
- SelectOK.
- Use the net income distributions grid to distribute net income to the proper equity accounts. If you selected to close accounts by individual segments, be sure to select the appropriate accounts for each primary segment code to distribute each portion of net income separately.note
- The sum of the amounts in the Amount column must equal the full net income amount. As you enter amounts or percentages in the grid, the application updates the amounts in theTotal,Net Income, andDifferencefields. You can selectRecalculate Amountsat any time to recalculate the amounts in the net income distributions grid.
- You must have at least one equity account classification code to close the Fiscal Year. You can add a new account on the fly by right-clicking theAccountfield, or you can edit an existing account in theChart of Accountsscreen.
- Only equity accounts (those with a classification code of EQ assigned to it) are included in the dropdown in the Account column.
- Use the balance sheet accounts distributions grid to close balance sheet accounts from one account to another. The dropdown in the From Account and To Account columns include all Asset (CA, NPE, and NCA), Liability (CL and LTL), and Equity (EQ) accounts.
- SelectOK.
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