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We close A/P and A/R at the end of the last 'business' day of the month, as defined by our 4-4-5 accounting calendar. Actually, EVERYTHING is closed at the end of the last business day each month, except for G/L and C/M. Our business live revolves totally around our accounting calendar. R. Tim Kresky, Controller Sunflower Manufacturing Company Beloit, Kansas "Wu, Eva" <Evawu@PTS-TOOLS.CO To: "'JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com'" <JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com> M> cc: Sent by: Subject: RE: Accounting Period - Change of Method owner-jbausers-l@mi drange.com 07/25/01 08:28 AM Please respond to JBAUSERS-L When you close A/P and A/R on the last business day of each month, are you following the calendar hanging on the wall or the business calendar you set up? -----Original Message----- From: tkresky@sunflowermfg.com [mailto:tkresky@sunflowermfg.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:41 AM To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com Subject: Re: Accounting Period - Change of Method We're on 4-4-5 here. The best advice I can give is to make sure ALL your various calendars reflect your periods. The system worries about what period it is in, not what the date is. So, as long as your calendars are right and you are following proper month-end closing procedures, everything works wonderfully. As for sales analysis... We keep it in line with the calendar for the business, not the calendar hanging on the wall. As for the financial modules... At the end of the last business day of each month, we close A/P and A/R and open for the next month. (Obviously, we also close out the nonfinancial modules, such as Inventory.) G/L and Cash Manager remain open for the next week, as we work through our closing process. Given Sales and Inventory have been closed and opened in the next month, the system knows to post all AFI activity from those modules to the new month in the G/L (even though it hasn't officially been opened yet). Again, it all works quite well. One note on Cash Manager. If you leave it open for a week like we do and you want to post a misc cash receipt for the NEW month via a journal entry to C/M, remember to override the posting period (it defaults the old month into the period field). R. Tim Kresky, Controller Sunflower Manufacturing Company Beloit, Kansas John Taylor <John.Taylor@britax To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com -pmg.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Accounting Period - Change of Method owner-jbausers-l@mi drange.com 07/25/01 05:35 AM Please respond to JBAUSERS-L Our parent company has decided to change the way we report to it by moving from calendar period ends, to a system of periods containing 5 weeks and 2, 4 week periods per quarter. Can anyone explain the implications of, or give further examples of pros and cons with this change across the System 21 financial suite (352SP3). I'm aware that sales invoices will be able to be raised for example in the first period (was January) with a February invoice date. This I presume will have some knock on effect with aging reports. Also sales analysis, if kept in line with SL period end will not reflect the true sales per calendar month - should this be kept in line with the new period close (as a cross check for accounts) or left as is to report monthly sales? Also what about PL, Cash and GL? (I admit not in my area of expertise but I can pass on anything relevant) Any feedback would be useful on this one. Regards John Taylor IT Manager Britax PMG Limited +--- | This is the JBA Software Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message send your mail to JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to JBAUSERS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to JBAUSERS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: doug333@aol.com. +--- +--- | This is the JBA Software Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message send your mail to JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to JBAUSERS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to JBAUSERS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: doug333@aol.com. +--- +--- | This is the JBA Software Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message send your mail to JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to JBAUSERS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to JBAUSERS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: doug333@aol.com. +--- +--- | This is the JBA Software Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message send your mail to JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to JBAUSERS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to JBAUSERS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: doug333@aol.com. +---
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