Topic 55: FICO (And 6000 Real-time SAP Screen shots)

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Number of posting periods

The fiscal year can be subdivided into up to 16 periods. These are divided into normal posting periods and special periods for closing purposes. This field contains the number of normal posting periods.



Number of special periods

Special periods represent an extension of the last normal posting period. When the posting date falls within the last normal posting period, then during document entry you can specify that the transaction figures be updated separately in one of the special periods.


In this case, you can select as many special periods as you have specified here.

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Indicator: Determine periods like calendar year ?

Indicator that the posting periods match the months of the calendar year.

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Assign Company Code to a Fiscal Year Variant

For every company code, you must specify which fiscal year variant is to be used.


Requirements
You have defined the relevant fiscal year variant. The variant does not contain more than 16 periods. For more information, see Maintain Fiscal Year Variant.


Standard settings
The standard company code is assigned to the fiscal year variant that corresponds to the calendar year and uses four additional special periods.


Activities
Assign a fiscal year variant to each company code.

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Define Variants for Open Posting Periods

In this activity, you can define variants for open posting periods.

Standard settings

In the standard setting, a separate variant for posting periods is defined for every company code. The name of this variant is identical to the company code name. Every company code is allocated to this variant with the same name. Thus nothing has changed in the system yet: Every company code has its own variant. If you want to and can continue working on this basis (for example, if you manage with only a few company codes), you do not have to make any changes in the configuration.

If however, you want to use identical variants in several company codes, you must change the default settings as described in the "Activities" section.

Activities

1. Change the name in one of the variants.
2. Allocate all company codes, for which you want to use identical variants for open posting periods, to this variant.
Detailed information on this can be found in the chapter "Allocate company code to variant".
3. Delete the variants no longer required.