FM Fiscal Year Variant

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

We have 2 company code which has two different fiscal year variant. One of them 1000 uses FY variant K4 ( from january to december ) and the other company has FY variant V3 ( from april to march ). We have created 2 FM area and assigned them to company codes. Our client wants to start budget control from april for both company codes 1000 and 2000. But we made a mistake. in FM customizing under public sector, we assigned FY variant K4 for company code 1000 and FY variant for company code 2000. Everything is ok for company code 2000 but I want to change FY variant for 1000. FM area 1000 is deactive now in live system. How can I change fiscal year year variant for 1000? or Is it better to create a new FM area and using this FM area for 1000??

CC : 1000

FM Area : 1000 ( is deactive in live system )

FY Variant ( January - December )

CC : 2000

FM Area : 2000 ( is active in live system )

FY Variant : ( April - March )

Best Regards

[iklovski]

Hi,

If you use variant with special periods, then, normally, variant assigned to company code and that assigned to FM area should match.

Regards,

Eli

[Former Member]

Hi Eli

I assigned variant K4 company code 1000. But its budget period is starting from april. I want to change variant K4 to V3 but the system does not allow me to change it. Is there a way to change  assigned fiscal year to FM area?

Thank you

[iklovski]

Do you have actual data posted on this FM area. If 'yes', then you won't be able to change the variant, without deleting first FM data.

[Former Member]

Thank you for reply Eli.

Which tables should I delete?

Thank you

[iklovski]

Is it production system or sandbox?

[Former Member]

It is production system. But there are too little posting.

[iklovski]

It's a serious exercise and you have to be ready to face possible consequences, when you are about to reconstruct the data. Technically speaking, you can delete the data via FM_DLFM and then run reconstructions programs, but you have to make sure that you won't encounter any problem during this process.