GL date that you entered is not in an open or future enterable period in Payables and Receivables

We have bank accounts that are setup as a receivables only account.  We do not have AR setup, only AP for the operating unit.  When we load bank statements for the AR account with AP closed, we get the error GL date that you entered is not in an open or future enterable period in Payables and Receivables. Oracle requires us to have AP period open even though it is not an AP bank account, is there any way around this so that we can load our revenue accounts without having to have the AP period open?