Changing the Accounting Month Pariod

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Changing the Accounting Month Period

To Change the Month Accounting Period, do the following steps:

Select Processing | Change Accounting Period | Change Month from Menu

When in Change Month Maintenance Screen

1. In the Change Month screen, Click the Begin button.

2. Click the Yes button if you really want to setup that new month and that you have backed-up the CommonCents database when the following message box is shown. If you are not sure, click the No button.

3. Click the Yes button if the "Are You Sure?" message box is shown.

4. If there are accounting transactions that were not yet posted, CommonCents shows the following message box.

a. When a message box is shown, Click the OK button.

b. Post the journals that were not yet posted to the general ledger.

5. If there are no problems encountered, CommonCents does the processing and prompts the user if this is finished. When done, the new month text box would contain the beginning day and the ending day of the month.