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Chapter 1 ■ Customizing Organizational Structure in SAP ERP
Year Specific or Year Dependent
Year specific is used when the fiscal year/posting periods vary from year to year. This is uncommon in practice.
An example of a situation when this will arise is when posting periods are either greater than 12 months
(extended fiscal year) or are less than 12 months (shortened fiscal year). The reason for a shortened fiscal
year could be as a result of a company winding up or any other special reasons.
Maintain Fiscal Year Variant
Problem: The accounting team has asked you to define a calendar year fiscal variant
(January–December) for your company code. You were advised by your colleagues to
copy K4—the standard fiscal year variant supplied by SAP—and modify it to meet this
requirement.
To access the screen where you will maintain your fiscal year variant, use the menu path: IMG ➤ Financial
Accounting (New) ➤ Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) ➤ Ledgers ➤ Fiscal Year and Posting
Period ➤ Maintain Fiscal Year Variant (Maintain Shortened Fiscal Year). The transaction code is OB29.
The Change View “Fiscal Year Variants” Overview screen is displayed. This screen is split into two
sections, the Dialog Structure section and the Fiscal Year Variants section (Figure 1-16), where you can
customize your fiscal year. Since you want to copy the fiscal year variant K4 supplied by SAP in the system,
you should use the
button at the bottom to search for the fiscal year variant you want to use
(in this case, it’s K4).
Figure 1-16. Searching for the fiscal year variant you want to copy
When you click the Position button, a dialog box called Another Entry (Figure 1-17) pops up. This dialog
box enables you to search for the fiscal year variant supplied by the system (K4) that you want to adapt to
your fiscal year variant.
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