Adding a financial year
Procedure
1. Go to Supporting data > Financial years.
2. On the action panel, click Add.
3. In the data panel, complete the relevant fields.
For a description of these fields, see the following table:
Field | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Year | Enter a year that represents the new financial year. | ||
Description | Enter a description for the financial year. | ||
Start date | The start date is automatically populated by adding one day to the end date of the previous financial year. | ||
End date | Select an end date for the financial year.
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Costs excl. VAT | When creating a financial year, typically, the default setting is taken from System Settings. Here you can overrule this setting for a selected financial year, if required. Click No, if you want to calculate costs including VAT or click Yes if you want to calculate costs excluding VAT. | ||
Status | The status of the financial year is displayed: Open or Closed. | ||
Journal entries generated for contract lines | If you applied the Generate journal entries for contracts action, this field will be automatically set to Yes. Journal entries are created for those contracts which belong to the selected financial year and are linked to a budget definition. For more information on the Generate journal entries for contracts action, see Adding a financial year. |
4. Click Save.