can we change posting period to backdate

[former_member584050]

Dear Experts,

we have one shipment cost document in production system with settlement date as 0002/2022 .

When try business try to post getting error like below, to the best of my knowledge posting dates cannot be reopen .

could you please suggest is there any other way to transfer it successfully.

Period 002/2022 is Not Open for Account Type S and G/L 46020

[former_member584050 · Accepted solution]

In the change mode 1st i have deleted account assignment in SCD then we changed settlement date to current date, done transfer successfully.

[Kartik_Dua]

Agree with Yasin, how we have handled such situations in the past is, on an off hour we open OB52 period only for type S and the respective company code, do the posting and close the period again. Caution: this is not recommended though because your Feb financials have already been documented or reported. So please validate this approach with your Accounting or Finance business leads before performing it in Prod.

I am not familiar with shipping cost documents as much, but alternatively you can try to change the date of the document to post in the current open period and then make an adjustment entry against it to reclassify it as Feb financial impact (this would be a manual process, but it is only one document so should be okay). This process should be performed by an Accounting or Finance stakeholder as this is going to be in Prod directly and if you are doing it, please get proper approvals.

Thank you.

Kartik

[Yasin]

check with your finance people if they can re-open 02/2022 for you to complete your posting otherwise not possible.