End oy year Activities
We carried out end of year activities for year 2013 on 2 instances using the following steps:
1. Backup ERP database
2. Generate trial balance as at dec 2013
3. Close all subledger appl ications
4.Close all open GL periods
5. Open Adj-13 period
6. Run Income statement Journal
7. Close Adj-13 period
8. Open Jan 2014.
9 .Run trial balance as at Jan 2014.
Observation on the first insance:
All the steps completed successfully. It was observed that the values in the retained earnings was far less than what was obtained in dec 2013.
Observation on the second instance: N:B The income statement journal was not run on this instance