Maintaining fiscal year variant in SAP is crucial for organizations to effectively manage their financial processes. This article provides valuable insights on the steps involved in maintaining fiscal year variants, ensuring accurate reporting and analysis of financial data. By understanding the significance of fiscal year variants and following the recommended practices, businesses can streamline their financial operations and make informed decisions based on reliable information within SAP.
Contents
- 1 Fiscal Year Variant
- 2 Creating and Managing a Fiscal Year Variant in SAP
- 3 Configuring Fiscal Year Variant: A Step-by-Step Guide
- 4 Managing a calendar year in SAP: A guide for maintenance
- 5 Steps to define posting period:
- 6 Assigning a fiscal year variant to a company code: How is it done?
- 7 Setting up fiscal year in SAP: How can it be done?
- 8 Maintaining variants in SAP: How is it done?
Fiscal Year Variant
In SAP, the Fiscal Year Variant is a designated time period used for financial reporting purposes within an organization. It consists of 16 posting periods, with 12 regular periods and 4 special periods. These special periods are specifically reserved for year-end activities. To define the Fiscal Year Variant in the CO (Controlling Component) module, one can use transaction code OB29.
Creating and Managing a Fiscal Year Variant in SAP
To begin, access your back-end system by logging in with your credentials. This will allow you to perform necessary tasks and make changes to the system. Once logged in, navigate to the fiscal year variant maintenance section using transaction GVAR. Here, you can manage and modify the settings related to fiscal years.
Within the fiscal year variant maintenance screen, locate and select the option for creating new entries. This will enable you to add custom configurations or make adjustments according to your requirements. On the subsequent page titled “New Entries: Overview of Added Entries,” proceed with entering relevant information or making desired modifications.
After inputting the necessary data on this page, there are a few actions that can be taken depending on your needs. Firstly, selecting “Enter” allows you to save and confirm the entered details before proceeding further. Alternatively, if you wish to go back without saving any changes made so far, choose “Back.” It is important to consider these options carefully based on whether or not you want immediate validation of your entries.
In addition, it may be required at times to specify certain parameters for an entry within this process. For example, marking an entry as RW indicates that it is read-write enabled – allowing both viewing and editing privileges for authorized users. Furthermore, when selecting periods from dialog structure during configuration setup ensures proper alignment of time intervals within specific modules or functionalities.
Configuring Fiscal Year Variant: A Step-by-Step Guide
Step 2: On the Change View “Fiscal year variants”:Overview screen click the New Entries button.
Step 3: Update the following fields on the screen called “New Entries: Overview of Added Entries”..
1. FV: You can assign any name to the fiscal year variant that will be used for posting periods, such as FT.
2. Description: Provide a description of the fiscal year variant being used by your company, specifying the period from April to March and including 4 special periods.
3. Number of Posting Periods: Determine the number of years for which you will be recording entries.
4. Number of Special Periods: Specify the maximum number (up to 4) of additional years in which you need to make special entries. These special periods are necessary for adjustment entries, such as correcting missing or erroneous entries at the end of each year.
Once you have entered the necessary information, click on the Save button to successfully create your Fiscal Year Variant.
Click on the confirm button located in View Cluster Editing: Initial Screen.
Step 4 : Go back to the Change View “Fiscal year variants”: Overview screen and press the Position button then Another entry screen appears where you type the name of the Fi Year Variant you created as FT and press the tick button
You can now view the fiscal year variant that you have created in the list.
Managing a calendar year in SAP: A guide for maintenance
When defining your fiscal year variant, make sure to set the Year-Specific indicator. Afterwards, for each calendar year, it is necessary to re-enter the end dates of periods which are determined by month and day limits.
1. Define your fiscal year variant.
2. Set the Year-Specific indicator.
3. Re-enter the end dates of periods for each calendar year based on month and day limits.
Steps to define posting period:
Once the Fiscal Year Variant has been established, it is necessary to specify the posting period.
First, go to the “Fiscal year variants” section on the Display View. From there, choose the FT fiscal year variant that you have previously created and click on the Periods button.
Step 2 : On Change View “Periods”: Overview screen select New Entries button to make entries for the period of fiscal year variant.
Step 3: Next, make sure to fill in the required information in the designated fields on the “Overview of Added Entries” screen.
In our fiscal year variant, we consider a non-calendar year with 12 months starting from January to December. We specify the number of days in each month, such as 31 days in the first month, January.
In order to maintain the fiscal year variant in SAP, it is important to establish April as the first month of the period. This means that when defining the months within a year, January is considered as part of the previous year while April is regarded as part of the current year. Therefore, there is a shift in years during January, February, and March where they are counted as -1, while April through December are counted as 0.
For example, suppose if we are making entries for the posting period 2021 then we take the 4th-month April 2021 as the 1 month for our posting period that’s why the year shift is 0 and 1st month January as the 10th month of the posting period 2021 and year shift is -1.
In SAP, maintaining the fiscal year variant involves specifying the month, day, period, and year shift for each month of the fiscal year. This information determines how the system calculates dates and periods within a fiscal year. For example, in India, a typical fiscal year variant may have January as month 1 with 31 days and period 10 with a negative (-1) year shift. Similarly, February would be month 2 with 29 days and period 11 also having a negative (-1) year shift. The remaining months follow this pattern until December which is month 12 with 31 days and period 9 having no change (0) in the year shift.
Click on the save button to store the changes. On the screen that asks for customization request, click on the tick button to confirm and successfully post periods for the fiscal year variant.
Assigning a fiscal year variant to a company code: How is it done?
To maintain the fiscal year variant in SAP, follow these steps:
1. Go to IMG (Implementation Guide) and navigate to Financial Accounting > General Ledger accounting > Master Data > G/L accounts.
2. Under “Preparations,” select “Assign company code to chart of accounts.”
3. Click on the “Position” option and enter your company code.
4. For each company code, you need to specify which fiscal year variant should be used.
A fiscal year variant is a way of defining the start and end dates of a financial year for reporting purposes. It helps organizations align their financial activities with specific time periods, such as calendar months or quarters.
In SAP, maintaining the fiscal year variant ensures that all financial transactions are recorded within the designated time frame. This allows for accurate reporting and analysis of financial data at regular intervals throughout the year.
By assigning a specific fiscal year variant to each company code in SAP, you can ensure consistency across different entities or divisions within your organization when it comes to reporting their financial results.
Setting up fiscal year in SAP: How can it be done?
Within OB29, you have various options available for customization such as defining how many periods are included in each fiscal year and specifying special periods if required. You can also set up different variants for different company codes within your organization if needed.
Maintaining variants in SAP: How is it done?
To maintain the fiscal year variant in SAP, follow these steps:
1. Go to Environment and select SAP Systems.
2. From the context menu of the SAP System, choose Maintain Objects.
3. Select an ABAP/client/variant/parameter/select option combination.
4. Modify the value of the selected parameter.
– Navigate to Environment → SAP Systems.
– Choose Maintain Objects from the context menu of the SAP System.
– Select an ABAP/client/variant/parameter/select option combination.
– Change the value of the selected parameter.