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Fighting FRx Month Descriptions with 4/4/5 Accounting?

July 28, 2007 By Jan Lenoir Harrigan CPA 3 Comments

Learned something interesting from a client the other day.

They’re using 4/4/5 accounting periods, and for a long time, they fought the @month code in their column headings. FRx would often pick up an incorrect month from their perspective, although that programming is by design.

They resolved this by using the @perdesc code instead of @month. This causes FRx to look at the ‘period description’ in the GL. (Their GL happened to be Great Plains, and the period description is found under Tools, Fiscal Periods, Period Name. Your mileage may vary, so to speak.)

I know this tip is a bit obscure, but hopefully it will make someone’s day!

Filed Under: FRx Tagged With: 4/4/5, Report Design

Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    July 30, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    This helps tremendously. Thank you!!

  2. tree309 says

    April 11, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    How do you do the month to date column in FRx? I set my periods up as weekly and tried to use effective dates, but the effective date pop-up window only allows 20 entries, not 52 as needed for weekly/mtd reports.

  3. Jan Harrigan CPA says

    April 16, 2008 at 8:42 am

    I would steer you away from effective dates in this instance. 52 columns is way too high maintenance!

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