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GL500


GL500 - Fiscal Year Change

**Form Purpose
Run Fiscal Year Change (GL500) to change the value of the current accounting
period and fiscal year for your Lawson General Ledger company. All account
balances, transaction history, and budget information are adjusted to
correspond with the new accounting period and fiscal year.

Important You should run all financial statements and back up the database
before you run this program.

Note This program does NOT include those entries in the new Retained Earnings
amount for the beginning balance. You must run GLAMOUNTS, GLUNITS File Rebuild
(GL325) for each year to include those transaction amounts.




Updated Files

    CAHEADER   - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    CATRANS    - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    CKPOINT    - Used for restart capability.

    CUAMOUNT   - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    CUAMOUNTX  - This file is updated with report currency balances.

    CUTRANSL   - This file maintains translation rates for each currency
                 relationship.

    FBDETAIL   - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    FBDTLHIST  - This file stores the budget detail version information.

    FBHEADER   - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    FBHISTHDR  - This file stores the budget header information for a version.

    FBSPREAD   - This file stores budget spread codes maintained by this
                 program.

    GLAMOUNTS  - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    GLAMOUNTSX - This file is updated with report currency balances.

    GLCLSAUDIT -

    GLCODES    -

    GLCONTROL  - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    GLJELOG    - This file is updated with a journal entry posted log.  This
                 file will also be updated with any journal entry errors
                 encountered.

    GLMASTER   - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    GLSYSJE    - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    GLSYSTEM   - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    GLTRANS    - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    GLUNITS    - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    GLUNITSX   - This file is updated with posting account unit daily balances.

    RJCONTROL  - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.

    RJSCHEDULE - This file is accessed for interfaced recurring journal entries
                 to determine
                 the amount to be journalized. The schedule status is updated
                 by this program.

    ULPOST     - This file is updated with the fiscal year change.


Referenced Files

    CUCODES    - Used by common library; not referenced in this program.

    GLADDRESS  - Used by common library; not referenced in this program.

    GLCHART    - Used by common library; not referenced in this program.

    GLCHARTDTL - Used by common library; not referenced in this program.

    GLESACCT   -

    GLNAMES    - Used by common library; not referenced in this program.

    GLZONE     - Used by common library; not referenced in this program.

    RJBRIDGE   - This file is updated with an interfaced recurring journal
                 released status.

    WFSETUP    -


INVOKED Programs

    IFOB
    IFSG