Executing the Fiscal Year Change and Year-End Closing 

To ensure that the posting values determined for the year-end 1999 are available for the following year, you now carry out the fiscal year change.

  1. On the SAP R/3 screen, choose Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Fixed assets.
  2. On the Asset Accounting screen, choose Periodic processing ® Fiscal year change.
  3. On the Asset Fiscal Year Change screen, enter the following data:

Field

Europe

Great Britain

North America

Company code

1000

2000

3000

New fiscal year

2000

2000

2000

Test run

Selected

Selected

Selected

  1. Choose Program ® Execute in background.
  2. In the Background Print Parameters dialog box, select Print immediately, then save your entries.

The system informs you that the job has been scheduled.

If the Start Time dialog box appears, choose Immediate, then choose Save.
  1. Choose System ® Services ® Jobs ® Job overview, then choose Execute.

    2. The system informs you that job RAJAWE00 has the status Finished. If this is not the case, choose Refresh.

    If your job has been executed without errors, repeat steps 3-6 in the update run (deselect test run).

  2. Return to the Asset Accounting screen.

    3. Now that the correct posting values exist for fiscal year 2000, you now need to carry out year-end closing in Asset Accounting. When you have completed this, you will not be able to execute postings for 1999 in this application.

  3. Choose Periodic processing ® Year-end closing ® Execute.
  4. On the Year-End Closing - Asset Accounting screen, enter the following data:

Field

Europe

Great Britain

North America

Company code

1000

2000

3000

For fiscal year

2000

2000

2000

Test run

Selected

Selected

Selected

  1. Choose Program ® Execute in background.
  2. In the Background Print Parameters dialog box, select Print immediately, then save your entries.

If a warning message should appear, choose Continue.

The system informs you that the job has been scheduled.

If the Start Time dialog box appears, choose Immediate, then choose Save.
  1. Choose System ® Services ® Jobs ® Job overview, then choose Execute.

    2. The system informs you that job RAJABS00 has the status Finished. If this is not the case, choose Refresh.

    If your job has been executed without errors, repeat steps 9-13 in the update run (deselect test run).

  2. Return to the SAP R/3 screen.