Introduction What is an ERP system? And why should businesses use it? Today, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) also face some of the problems that large enterprises do. One of them being planning and managing their resources. SMEs face similar complexities but have limited resources to deal with them. Small businesses (like their bigger counterparts) have to: Do accounts to track their sales/purchases. Do their taxes. Pay their employees. Manage deliveries within promised timelines. Deliver quality goods and services. Communicate with customers, answer their queries. Large enterprises invest millions of dollars in highly sophisticated systems like SAP. SAP and similar systems are able to handle requirements from these large enterprises to bring their multi-country , multi-company , multi-currency , global businesses into a single platform. This has helped them achieve consolidation of data/records in the fundamental processes such as accounting, taxation, payroll, reporting
SAP FI Posting period variant is used to maintain accounting periods that are open for posting and all closed period are balanced. This is used for opening and closing period in the fiscal year for posting purpose. You can assign these posting periods to one or more company codes. How to create posting period variants in SAP FI? Go to SPRO → SAP Reference IMG → Financial Accounting → Financial Accounting Global Setting → Document → Posting Periods → Define Variant for open Posting Periods → Execute. It will open a new window. Now, click New Entries. It will open another window, as shown below. Enter the 4-digit Posting Period Variant and name of the field. Click the Save icon to save this variant. Open and Close Posting Periods Go to SPRO → SAP Reference IMG → Financial Accounting → Financial Accounting Global Setting → Document → Posting Periods → Open and Close Posting Periods → Execute. Click the button New Entries, as shown in the following screenshot. Now, you need to provide the