The carryforward covers only commitment documents previously selected for carryforward using program RFFMC001. If an open commitment was reduced or deleted after selecting the documents (e.g: By reversing a purchase order), these documents are not carried forward into the new year.

If you are working on a payment basis you must convert the line items from the "invoice" status to the "payment" status using the program RFFMS200. You find further information under Payment Transfer as well as in the program documentation.

If you are using the function "Revenues increasing the budget (distribution procedure)", you must use program RFFMUD01 to execute the budget increase. For more information, see Execute Budget Increase.

1. Choose Accounting ® Financial accounting ® Funds Management ® Additional functions ® Closing operations ® Commitment carryforward ® Carry forward documents.
2. You must enter the following data to carry forward the open commitment documents:

• FM area
• Fiscal year
• Payment Budget and/or Commitment Budget

1. You can limit the selection of open commitment documents for particular FM Account Assignments and for individual documents or Value Types.
2. You must deselect Test Run to carry forward the documents to the new fiscal year.
3. Start the program in the background.

For a precise overview of what documents have been carried forward to the new fiscal year, see the Year-End Closing Report. The information system now shows the documents carried forward in period 000 of the following year, not in the period they have been in up to now.

After carrying forward open commitment documents to the new year, you must reconstruct the assigned values for the old year and the new year. For more information on this, refer to Reconstructing Assigned Values.