Accounting Settings

Manage your accounting module's financial year status, including temporary locking.

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The Accounting Settings tab lets you control the status of your current financial year, whether it's open for edits or temporarily locked to prevent further changes.


Financial Year Settings

This section shows your Current Status:

StatusMeaning
OpenThe financial year is currently active, and accounting entries can be edited freely

Important Precautions

  • You can still edit accounting entries while the year is open
  • Locking will prevent any further changes
  • Closing will permanently finalize the year
Financial Year Settings

Financial Year Settings

View and manage your current financial year status.

Permanently closing a financial year is managed separately within the Accounting module, not here. This tab only covers temporary locking.


Temporarily locking the financial year

1

Open the confirmation dialog

Click Temporary Lock Financial Year to open a confirmation dialog.

2

Review the details

Temporarily Lock Financial Year Temporary locking prevents further edits but allows manual entries. This can be unlocked by an administrator.

Temporary locking will:

  • Prevent editing existing entries
  • Allow manual entries only
  • Still allow permanent locking or closing
3

Confirm or cancel

Click Temporary Lock Year to confirm, or Cancel to back out.

Temporarily Lock Financial Year dialog

Temporarily Lock Financial Year dialog

Confirm temporary lock to restrict editing on existing entries.

Temporary locking can be reversed by an administrator, unlike permanently closing a financial year, which is final.


FAQs


Manage Your Books

Your financial year is configured. Dive into day-to-day accounting or review your ledgers.