FINANCIALPERIOD function

Created by Harry Lewis, Modified on Tue, 16 Jul, 2024 at 9:33 AM by Gabriel Michaud

Applies to:

GL Module
ERP: Acumatica, CEGIC, Haufe x360, JAMIS Prime, MYOB Acumatica

Description

The FINANCIALPERIOD function returns the matching financial period for a given year and period number (as defined in the ERP's master financial calendar).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Syntax
Parameters
Example

Syntax

  FINANCIALPERIOD(Connection, Year, PeriodNumber, Company)

Parameters

The FINANCIALPERIOD function uses the following parameters (see our articles on filtering techniques and using arrays or cell ranges as parameters):

Parameter	Required/Optional	Description
Connection	Required	The name of the connection, as specified in the Connection Manager
Year	Required	The year of the financial period.
PeriodNumber	Required	The period number. A value that is lower or higher than the number of periods in the current year will yield a period that is in a different financial year.
Company	Optional	The ID of the company whose financial calendar is to be used for determining the results. This parameter is used when the Multiple Calendar Support feature is enabled within Acumatica. The company financial calendar of the specified company will be used. If left blank, the Master Financial Calendar will be used.

Example

The following examples assume a financial year with 12 periods.

Function	Result
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 2)	02-2017
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 1)	01-2017
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 0)	12-2016
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", -1)	11-2016
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 13)	01-2018
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 14)	02-2018