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what are posting periods

[Former Member]

Hi,

The Posting period variant controls which posting periods, both normal and special, are open for each company code. It is possible to have a different posting period variant for each company code in the organization. The posting period is independent of the fiscal year variant.

Fiscal Year is a period of 12 months and SAP provides 4 special periods to posting adjustment Entries. Fiscal year determines posting periods. Posting periods are used to assign business transactions. Fiscal year may be year dependent or year independent.

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raam

[Former Member]

Hi,

Pravallika,

Posting periods are used to specify when business transactions are posted.Generally, there are 12 posting periods and 4 special posting periods.

A financial Year(FY) normally consists of 12 months.so, every month is treated as 1 posting period. if ur finacial year is from JAN to DEC, if u want to posting an entry into General ledger/ CASH/Assets table, its posting period is 1, for DEC , it is 12.

For the last month, there are so many transactions are in the line to consolidate all the accounts of that FY.So, 4 special postongs are available to use in the last month.but, we can use at any time these 4 special periods.

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G.V.K.Prasad