Too Late :)
Already bought your book Sharon.  Can't go wrong with more information. 
Thanks for the details below!  Especially reopening of closed periods.  

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Subject: Re: Financials ->Month End Close Procedures
From: Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org>
Date: Wed, March 21, 2018 1:46 am
To: <user@ofbiz.apache.org>

Hi James

You don’t need to buy my book, to find out about this. :-) 

I’ve gone through the main process below with some links to the
screens in our demo.
So the main things you need are:

Time Periods
https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/accounting/control/TimePeriods?organizationPartyId=Company

To make sure that your time periods (monthly ones are setup). The last
time I checked OFBiz still needed the periods to be setup a bit like
this

Start Date 1 January 20XX End Date 1 February 20XX because the
comparison for whether a transaction is within the range is a less than
comparison. So setting the period end date to 31st January 20XX will
miss the transactions for the 31st January. 

Make sure the period is active

GL Account Type Defaults Account Mapping
https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/accounting/control/GlAccountAssignment?organizationPartyId=Company

You need a mapping to make sure that:
- ‘Profit Loss ‘ GL account type is mapped to your account for
Net Income 
- 'Retained Earnings' GL account type is mapped to your account for
Retained Earnings

Month End Closing
https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/accounting/control/TimePeriods?organizationPartyId=Company

To close the month simply close the time period and Period closing
accounting transaction should automatically be created and posted (Do
this in the company settings not at the global GL accounts level)

Period Closing Accounting Transaction
To find the Period Closing Transaction, go to 

https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/accounting/control/FindAcctgTrans 

Re-opening a Closed Period
You used to be able to do this via the Edit Custom Time Period screen
https://localhost:8443/accounting/control/updateCustomTimePeriod 

but that is no longer the case. 

The workaround is to edit Time Period entity record to make it active.
There is a flag that indicates whether the period is active or not
– just change it.
https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/webtools/control/FindGeneric?entityName=CustomTimePeriod

- Reverse the accounting transaction for the original period closing.
(Just go into the original accounting transaction and use the Revert
option)
- Do your accounting adjustments 
- Close the period again

I think that having the ability to re-open a closed Time Period is a
something that is quite useful so would probably suggest that we look at
re-implementing something that does this.

I hope this helps and if anyone else has other ideas or suggestions then
please feel free to add your feedback.

Thanks
Sharan
On 2018/03/20 13:17:56, <ja...@productive1.com> wrote: 
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction for Month End Close
> Accounting Procedures in Ofbiz. As well how to re-open a closed period?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
>

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