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Locked vs. Closed Accounting Period: Ability to Make Changes in a Transaction

edited Dec 20, 2019 5:10PM in Ask A Guru

Below is an overview of the differences between Locked and Closed Accounting periods when it comes to the ability to make posting and non-posting changes in the transaction.

Locked Accounting Period

Closed Accounting period

Making Non-General Ledger Impacting Changes

It is still possible to make Non-General Ledger impacting transactions for Administrator Roles.

For non-Administrator Roles, it is also possible as long as:

  1. The Allow Non-G/L Changes is marked in the period; and
  2. The Allow Non-G/L Changes permission is given to the role Under permissions Tab > Setup Subtab.

It is still possible to make Non-General Ledger impacting transactions.

Making General Ledger Impacting Changes

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