Specify Default Special Periods
Application component: Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
App type: SAP GUI
Description: When posting a document, you can: Enter a special period at document header level that the system uses when transferring the posting to the general ledgerExplicitly specify that the document is not to be posted in a special period 
Key features: You enter the desired special period at document header level in documents. Note Since FI-CA documents can post across company codes, it can be the case that the requested special period (from the document header) is not open in all posted company codes for the document. A check for this at item level therefore only results in a warning message. The system issues an error message only if the special period is not open in any document item. For postings in other transactions and automatic processes, and if you do not have the special authorization mentioned, you define a default special period that is dependent on the posting date. The system then enters this default special period dependent on the posting date in the document header. In this way, for example, you prevent the posting period of the clearing document for automatic clearing (transaction FP06 or FPMA) from being earlier than the posting period of the item to be cleared. This default special period is also proposed as the default special period for manual postings (transaction FPE1). If you have the necessary authorization, you can overwrite the default special period manually; or you can delete it, if you want to post without a special period. Following a change to the proposed posting date, the system automatically proposes the new default special period that results from the change (if you did not manually change the special period at the same time the posting date was changed). In this way, you can check if the entered posting date and special period are correct. During the transfer of cross-company-code postings to the general ledger, it can be the case that the special period stored in the document header or totals record is not open in all company codes. For these cases, you can specify an alternative special period dependent on the company code. Note This setting is only necessary for cross-company-code postings in company codes with different fiscal year variants. If none of the defined special periods is still open during the transfer to the general ledger, you can enter an alternative special period for the transfer to the general ledger that is dependent on the company code and the requested special period. If none of the defined special periods is open at the time of the general ledger transfer and you do not want to open one, you can perform the transfer posting with a new alternative posting date (in the new year) by entering an alternative posting date. For automatic postings (transactions for which it is not possible to enter a special period), you can also use event 0062 to change the default special period that was determined from the current settings, based on any document data (such as the document origin from the document header). When you display a document (transaction FPE2 or FPE3), you can display the special period from the document header at the level of the line items. To do so, define an appropriate line layout variant, in which you specify that the Special Period field is displayed. If you do so, the system determines the special period for each company code, already taking table TFK001W into account. That means that the system displays the special period, in which the transfer to the general ledger is to be posted.