Carry Balance forward

Hi All,
We just started our new Fiscal year, and we are carrying the balances forward.  We ran F.07, and selected the new fiscal year and checked both Select Customer and Vendors.  Then when i went to check the Account balance for the AR account (121000), I see a value of only 34,441 as the Balance carry forward under *** Balance.  Now when i double click on that value it gives me line items.  In that drill down report I see the correct amount of 8,144,292.83.  The same problem happens on the Vendor side just different amounts.  Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Thanks,
Rashad

Hi Rashad,
Before we discuss the problem further, I would like to share the program logic by SAP:
This program calculates the balance carried forward for customers and/or vendors.
The balances of the previous year are carried forward to the new year. If the account has not yet been posted in the new year and no balance carried forward has been carried out for this account, the account is opened inthe new year with the 1st balance carried forward; otherwise, the balance carried forward of the account is stored in the new year if changes result.
When posting into a previous year, the system carries forward the balance automatically. This is independent of whether the program has already run or not. "posting to a previous year" means that the posting date of the document has an earlier year than the entry date. This automatic carrying forward also occurs accumulatively over several years that means a posting in January 1993 with the posting date December 1991 changes the balance carried forward for 1992 and 1993.
SAP recommends that the program is run at the beginning of the new fiscal year. If the program is already run at the end of the last fiscal year, postings which are posted after this to the last fiscal year, do not result in automatic adjustment of the balance carried forward because it is not a "posting to a previous year". In such a case, it is necessary t let the program run again after these postings to carry forward the postings entered later.
The program can be started as often as desired.
Nevertheless, you can post to the new year if the program has not yet run. When posting, the accounts, however, with a balance carried forward of greater than zero are opened. Postings in the previous year do increase this balance carried forward, but do not carry forward the total of the items already posted in the old year to the new year; the balance carried forward only has the items posted by the new year into the previous year, but not the items posted in the previous year itself.
Please go through the same and let me know what problems you are facing.
Rgds
Harmees

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