Mapping Periods
Introduction
To cater for automatic translation in consolidation reporting involving subsidiaries using different financial year/periods patterns, the period mapping functionality is used to link a division’s periods to the periods of its reporting entity(s). The following needs to be taken into account when mapping periods:
- Be sure to map one or multiple division periods to one single reporting entity period.
- If you delete or modify a particular period mapping after generating the consolidation balance report, you need to regenerate the consolidation balance report to reflect the changes made.
- By saving your changes in mappings historically, and not changing one single record on every change, you can report consistently based on previous period mappings.
Menu path
Go to Financial/Setup/General/Financial years / Periods. Select a division and click Show. Then, click a link under the Period mapping column and click Map.
Roles & rights
To map financial periods, function right 195 - Maintain years/periods is required. Users with the Controller role have this function right.
For more details on what you can do with function rights or levels, go to System/Setup/Security/Function rights, select the required module, and then click on the relevant ID. To find out the functions you can perform with a particular role, go to System/Setup/Security/Roles, type in the description, click Refresh, and then click the required link under the Role column.
Button
Map
Click this to map the period(s) selected from the division to its reporting entity. If the frequency (monthly, yearly, half-yearly, and others) is different between the division and its reporting entity, you can still map the periods by selecting the relevant periods from the division and reporting entity.
Note: You can link a single period of a division to a single period of a reporting entity or a number of periods of a division (that has a monthly frequency for example) to a single period of a reporting entity (that has a quarterly frequency for example).
Map all
Click this to map all periods from the division to its reporting entity having the same frequency. You do not need to make any selection before clicking this button.
Close
Click this to exit.
Description
Division section
Division
The division selected is displayed. Click this to go to the division card. For more information, see Creating Division.
Year
The year selected is displayed. For more information, see Creating Financial Year.
Reporting entity section
Division
Type or select a reporting entity to display the periods in the financial year selected.
Note: The relationship between the reporting entity and its divisions has to be defined at the division card first. For more information, see Overview of Linked Divisions.
Year
Select a year to display the periods. For more information, see Creating Financial Year.
Results section
Four columns are displayed in both the Division and Reporting entity sections:
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Check box – This displays the check box for the division. Select the relevant check box(es) from the Division section and the Reporting entity section, and click Map to map the selected division periods to the respective reporting entity periods.
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Period – This displays the periods in the year selected for the division.
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Start date – This displays the start date of each period.
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End date – This displays the end date of each period.
After mapping, the screen below will be displayed. In the example, it shows four periods of a division mapped to 1 period of a reporting entity. You can click 
Delete to delete the mapped periods.
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