Application Areas
You can close GL accounting periods by GL transaction type. This lets you, for example, prevent any more sales order shipments, while still allowing banking entry in the GL. The GL module overrides the other area modules, and when closed, prevents transactions of any type for the period.
The application areas that can be closed separately are:
• GL, which closes all areas including fixed assets.
• AP, which closes the AP sub-ledger in financials.
• Sales, which closes the AR sub-ledger in financials. This also prevents the posting of sales invoices through Invoice Post and Print and posting of any SO transaction in Operational Transaction Post.
• Inventory, including all inventory (IC) and work order (WO) transactions created in operational functions.
• Periodic Costing. You can manually close the Periodic Costing module for a particular GL period if there are no unposted periodic costing GL transactions for that period.
When an application area is open (indicated by a selected check box) for a period, you enable transactions of that type to be posted during the GL period. The area check box acts as a switch, opening or closing the period to transactions of that type. You can update the area switch only when the period is open.
Note: You can also lock postings from a daybook or daybook group for a GL accounting period. To do this, create a daybook mask and apply it to the GL period using Entity GL Period Lock by Daybook (25.21.5.6). For more information on this approach, see
Daybook Masks.