Opening and Closing Accounting Periods

During the month-end closing process, the company's accountant need to block or open periods.

  1. Go to the Accounting Periods page.
  2. Click your fiscal year in the panel showing a list of years, then select the period in the Accounting periods per ledger list and click User Groups per Period.

  3. In User Groups per Period page:
    • If you are making changes at your company level only, select the user group(s) and click Open Period or Close Period in the toolbar.

    • If you are making changes on several companies at the same time, click Multi Company in the toolbar to display the user groups of all the companies. Then, select the user group(s) and click Open Period or Close Period.

  4. To close or open a period for all user groups, come back to Accounting Periods page, then select the fiscal year and period and click Open Period or Close Period.

    A validation list opens. All items must be tagged as No, in green. If not, correct the errors.