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The application enables you to change the processing period for which you enter data for the current client. Use the Actions > Change Posting Period command to change the processing period for the current client or to close the year for the client. You can move forward to a future period, or you can move back to a prior period. Client data is automatically moved to the next processing period when the period is changed.

The current posting period ending date is shown in the bottom left corner of the Workpapers CS status bar. If there is an asterisk after the date, that means you're not in the latest posting period for the client.

Changing the posting period

1. Choose Actions > Change Posting Period or click the Change Posting  button in the application toolbar.
2. Verify that the correct client is selected. (To select a different client, close this dialog and select the desired client from any of the data-entry windows in which you can select a client, and then confirm that you want to move to the next processing period.)
3. Select the year to which you want to move the posting period. The available years are based on the years defined in the Period End Dates dialog and can include one future year and an unlimited number of prior years.
4. Select the appropriate posting period.
5. Click OK.
6. You are prompted to carry forward tickmarks. Mark the Carry forward tickmarks checkbox to copy all tickmarks associated with a general ledger account within the source period to the destination period.

   Note: If you have worked in the destination period at any time, the period is advanced without displaying this prompt.

7. Click OK to continue advancing the period.

Closing the year

1. Choose Actions > Change Posting Period Change Posting  button in the application toolbar.
2. Verify that the correct client is selected. To select a different client, close this dialog and select the desired client from any of the data-entry windows in which you can select a client.
3. Select the year that follows the client's current processing period.
4. Select the appropriate posting period, and then click OK.
5. In the Year End Close dialog, specify how you want to handle budgets amounts in the year to which you are advancing, choose any applicable closing options, and click OK.
6. If the Zero account balances checkbox is not marked, a subsequent Year End Close dialog opens. In this dialog, you can distribute net income to one or more equity accounts, and you can close balance sheet accounts from one account to another.

   Only equity accounts (those with a classification code of EQ assigned to it) are included in the drop-down list in the Account column.

7. Click OK.

See also: Changing a client's processing frequency

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