#COE #BA01 Schedule Post Closing and Opening Balances - Italy, Replaces Rollforward Process?

[P_Quiroz_23]

Our offices in Italy have indicated to us that the standard balance carryforward process for closing a year and opening the following year does not meet local requirements.  We see that SAP provides a compliant process via Schedule Post Closing and Opening Balances.  As we have already run the standard process for 2023, our worry is that reopening 2023 for our Italy Company Code & relevant ledgers and running Schedule Post Closing and Opening Balances may cause duplication with the standard process that had already been run.

Does running Schedule Post Closing and Opening Balance replace or duplicate what has already been run?  In other words, should we have run Schedule Post Closing and Opening Balances for Italy instead of the normal balance carryforward process?

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[Edna_Garcia]

Hola P_Quiroz_23 

According to the case description, I think you are talking about the Balance Carryforward job automatically. If this is the case, the balance carryforward job is scheduled for approx. Two weeks before the fiscal year closes. This job, which is not visible to the users, is executed every night after midnight. This job checks, for each company code and ledger combination, whether a balance carryforward job should be scheduled for this company code and ledger combination.

However, it is possible to run the job from the Schedule General ledger job app manually, but you would wait until all periods of the previous fiscal year are closed to avoid such a situation. This means that a manual balance carryforward is only possible after the start of the next fiscal year. And every journal entry, which was already handled by the automatic balance carryforward, is ignored. The system won’t duplicate postings.
The Balance Carry Forward Status app provides the planned, in-process, or completed status.

More details in the following links:

- 3014633 - Technical Background to Automatic Scheduling of Balance Carryforward Runs

- SAP Help Portal Balance Carryforward

Best regards

Edna