Impact on changing the year dependent fiscal year period from 445 to 435

[former_member228896]

Dear Friends,

May I have your comments on the impact of below change

Currently using Year Dependent fiscal year variant K5 and period end closing is *445

Future we want to use the same year dependent fiscal year variant K5, however the period end closing will be *435.

*445 Periods - 1st month 4th sat, 2nd Month 4th Sat & 3rd Month 5th sat will be the closing periods
similarily for the rest of the months in a year.

*435 Periods - 1st month 4th sat, 2nd Month 3rd sat & 3rd Month 5th sat will be the closing periods

similarly for the rest of the months in a year.

Regards,

SB

[former_member719081]

Did you implement this change in your organisation?I need some inputs on how you achieved it and how to set the shortened fiscal year...

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjay,

With the current fiscal year variant (4-4-5 weeks) , you would be having 12 posting periods defined for each year.

If you wish to change it to 4-3-5 weeks, how many posting periods you will have.? If its 12, then your requirement would affect period definition. The change can be done only from a fiscal year in which no document is yet posted. However, thorough testing is required. You may even raise on OSS message to get a confirmation from SAP.

If the posting period would be 13, change in fiscal year definition should be done consulting SAP SLO team.

Regards,

Ravi Kumar

[former_member228896]

Hi Ravi,

In 445 and 435 scenarios - we have 12 periods.

The only change is period end dates are going to changed from 445 to 435 .

Would there be any impact going forward. Pl share your comments

Thanks

Sanjai

[former_member228896]

Dear Friends,

Any Leads??

[joseluis_carbajo]

Hi Sanjai,

SAP do not recommend to change a Fiscal Year Variant that has already
been assigned to a company code and has already some postings. This
will may create database inconsistencies

Please check the following SAP notes which will give you an
idea of some adverse effects that may happen as a result of a change
based on the modules/components you have implemented in your system.

427920     Analysis program for fiscal year conversion
210861     Changing fiscal year variant in production system
193713     SAPF070: Change of fiscal year variant
672255     Shortened fiscal year/changing fiscal periods

The change of the fiscal year or the change of the fiscal periods
has an effect in many modules, for example, in FI, FI-AA, FI-SL, FI-LC,
EC-CS, IM, CO, EC-PCA, MM, PP, SD, PS, PM.

Corresponding risks (for example, data inconsistency, system standstill)
can arise from incorrect changes to the fiscal year or from incorrect
changes to the fiscal periods in a live SAP system.

You can refer to the following wiki page also:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/jYXrCw

I hope you find this information helpful.
Regards,
Jose