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Change the Active Fiscal Year

Change the Active Fiscal Year

Overview

This guide will help you make an existing fiscal year active after confirming that current operations are ready for the change.

Muhasib updates active-year status and may deactivate the prior year. The source does not prove that already-open forms immediately reload the new context.

Who can do this

You need access to Fiscal Year and Fiscal Year Update.

Before you start

Close or save transactions, identify open working periods/registers, compare and confirm the prior year, and confirm the approved effective date with the financial administrator.

Before saving, check that the correct company is open and that you have permission to complete this task.

Where to find it

Back Office → Essentials Setup → Manage Fiscal Year.

Change the Active Fiscal Year

Step 1: Select the intended fiscal-year record

Step 2: Verify its Start Date and End Date

Step 3: Turn Currently Active on

Step 4: Choose Update and confirm the save

Step 5: When warned that another year is active, confirm only when

When warned that another year is active, confirm only when the switch is intentional.

Step 6: Reopen affected transaction/report forms or restart if required

Check your work

Confirm only one intended year is active, then run approved date-filtered reports and a non-posting check test.

Take a moment to check your work before closing the window. This small check can save time later.

If something goes wrong

  • Do not change year merely to enter an out-of-period transaction.
  • If transactions remain on the old context, close/reopen forms and follow restart guidance.

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