Periods Distribution
The form is located at the path: Tables > Controlling > Management Accounting > Periods distribution
This table is for exclusive use by companies that have set up Controlling.
In the period distribution, we can indicate, area by area and year by year, how to divide our months. The available fields are as follows:
- the Code
- the Description
- the Default flag
It is mandatory to have entered a record in this table with this flag; otherwise, the period processing of controlling will require it.
Below, we will have the list of records for each code entered, where we will have:
- the Area of reference
- the Year
- the Period
- The Value, which is the weight of the individual period within the year
We could divide the year into twelfths, or into elevenths, appropriately weighing August/December and January, rather than assigning the actual production days expected in a particular month year by year.
The Periods distribution is associated in two points:
- In the Chart of Accounts: I can specify that sub-account X, for which a range of dates is valued, is to be allocated via a specific period distribution instead of the exact days of the set date range, which is the default logic when period distribution is not set.
- In the Journal of Physical Movements, mandatorily for Units of Measure that are defined as Flow and not as State
In the interface, there is a button to duplicate the selected distribution, a convenient option at the beginning of the year to prepare the new list valid for each new fiscal year.