About the Year End Process

The year end process is an easy way to close your accounts for a financial year so that you can prepare your profit and loss Also known as an income statement. account and balance sheet Also known as a statement of financial position..

Warning:  

• You must be assigned the Accounting and Billing - Year End permission set to run the year end process.
• If one or more companies do not have the Year End Mode specified, the year end process will run in Full Accounting Code mode for those companies.
• You must make sure that the opening balances in period 000 are the correct brought forward balance sheet values. Once the year end process starts, the periods in the selected year are closed and locked. You can only run the year end process once. When the year end process is running for a current company, you cannot deselect that company until the process is complete.
• Once you have run the year end process, the year is closed. However, you can still reopen and adjust the following periods of the last closed year:
  • Trading periods
  • Adjustment period
    

You cannot reopen and adjust the special periods 000 and 101. For more information on closing and reopening a period, and on how different closing options control the saving and posting of documents, see Editing and Deleting Years and Periods.

• If you open and post adjustments in a period within a closed year, you must run Process Adjustments. This ensures that all of the related transactions are accurately reflected in the company reports for that year. For more information, see Running Year End Adjustments.

Before You Start

The year end process will not run if any of the following is true:

• There are "In Progress" or "Ready to Post" documents for the selected year. You must post or discard these documents before running the year end process.
• The year end process has been run before for the same year or a future year and the Year End Status has changed to "Closed". You must run year end processes in chronological order.
• There is another year end process running for the same company and the year's Year End Status is "Closing".
• The selected year has no special periods defined.
• Period 101 has documents posted to it (Period 101 must be empty).
• The following year or period 000 of the following year do not exist.

When running a Year End, you must have your correct brought forward balances in period 000 of the year for which you want to run the process. A warning is displayed if period 000 for the current year exists but is empty. This means that you have no opening balances for this year.

Before you start a year end process you must specify the following items on the current company and year. If these items are defined at company level, they are used as a default at year level but you can amend them at any time before the process starts.

• The general ledger account The general ledger will normally include general ledger accounts (GLAs) for items such as income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and reserves. to use as a suspense account.
• The general ledger account to use as a retained earnings account.
• The Year End Mode GLA Only or Full Accounting Code. This mode controls the detail and size of your year end journal lines. for the year end process.

If your multi-company org has more than one home currency The main working currency of the current company., you must create a separate retained earnings and suspense account GLA for each home currency. So, for example, if you have two USD companies and one GBP company in your org, you must create the following GLAs:

• Retained Earnings USD
• Suspense USD
• Retained Earnings GBP
• Suspense GBP

The two USD companies can share the same USD GLAs.

Before running a year end process, you must:

• Post all transactions
• Make corrections and adjustments
• Reconcile bank accounts
• Check key reports, such as:
  • Debtors aged analysis
  • Creditors aged analysis
  • Trial balance
  • Profit and loss Also known as an income statement.
  • Balance sheet Also known as a statement of financial position.

Flexible Decimal Places

If you have enabled the Flexible Decimal Places feature, the year end closing journals are rounded to two decimal places, regardless of the number of currency decimal places. Opening journals for the following year are rounded to the decimal places of the home or dual currency.

For more information, see Enabling the Flexible Decimal Places Feature.

Custom Settings

The following custom settings include fields that relate to the year end process:

• Accounting Settings
• Document Line Volume Settings

See Managing Custom Settings for more information.

Validation Rules

Before running your year end process, work with your administrator to review your validation rules on FinancialForce objects, in particular rules that affect transactions and transaction line items. Validation rules that interfere with the posting of year end journals and documents might need to be temporarily disabled.

Running a Year End

For more information, see Running the Year End Process.

What Happens during the Year End Process?

• Batch jobs are initiated to create and post a series of year end journals. The balance sheet Also known as a statement of financial position. process starts immediately after the profit and loss Also known as an income statement. process has completed successfully.
• If you are using Multi-Book Accounting, the year end process takes into account your accounting books and:
1. Runs a year end process for each book.
2. Calculates year end journals by identifying the balances book by book.
3. Associates the resulting year end journals with the correct accounting book.
   
   This is done automatically so you do not need to run a year end process per company and accounting book. Multi-Book Accounting is compatible with both year end modes: General Ledger Account and Full Accounting Code. The year end process for multiple years and companies supports Multi-Book Accounting.
   
• The profit and loss process reads all transaction line items for the selected year's trading periods and sorts them either by general ledger account or by full accounting code. This depends on the year end mode in force. You can select the year end mode at company and year level.
• The balance sheet process reads all transaction line items for the selected year's brought forward values in period 000 and its trading periods and sorts them either by general ledger account or by full accounting code as before.
• A new journal line item is created at each change of general ledger account or full accounting code. The values on each transaction line item are summarized on each journal line item and its sign is reversed. When the maximum number of journal lines is reached, a new journal header is created.
• The transactions posted to profit and loss GLAs are posted to the retained earnings GLA in period 101 of the year being closed.
• The transactions to balance sheet and retained earnings GLAs are posted to the brought forward balances (period 000) for the following year.
• The suspense GLA will be cleared to 0.00 at the end of the year end process.
• The home, dual, and reporting values in the year end journals are calculated by adding up their respective values in the relevant transaction line items.

Notifications

When the process completes you will receive a notification by email. If Chatter is enabled, you will receive a notification on your Chatter feed too.

We recommend enabling the Year End Log so that you can resolve any errors encountered during the year end process more easily. Any errors will be shown in Year End Logs. If there is no related list on the Year object, contact your administrator. For more information, see Custom Object Descriptions.

Additional error information can also be found on the Apex jobs page, with the Apex class CODAYearEndBatch.

Year End Journals

All resulting journals have a type of "Year End Journal", a status of "Complete", and are created in home currency. You cannot amend, cancel, or delete year end journals.

• Journals created by the profit and loss process have a reference starting "PL".
• Journals created by the balance sheet process have a reference starting "BS".

Year End Adjustments

You can post adjustments automatically using the year end adjustment process. For more information, see Running Year End Adjustments

Year end adjustments must be reflected in both periods 100 and 000 so that your opening balances are correct.

Here is an example:

 

	100	000
Sales	–400
Deferred Income	400

Retained Earnings		–400
Deferred Income		400

Once you have run the year end process, the year is closed. You cannot reopen and adjust the special periods 000 and 101. However, you can still reopen and adjust the following periods of the last closed year:

• Trading periods
• Adjustment period

For more information on closing and reopening a period, and on how different closing options control the saving and posting of documents, see Editing and Deleting Years and Periods.