OB52 close posting periods

All,
Our finance people use transaction OB52 to close posting periods. This transaction very well might not be the correct one for my users to use. But there is no way to restrict this transaction by company code. I checked the available objects to switch in SU24. Basically our finance people have verbal instructions to not close periods for other comapny codes although they have authorization to do so.
Does anyone know 1) if OB52 is the correct transaction to use and 2) how we can restrict this transaction by company code?
Thank you,
Michael Jaynes

> but I forget which one
It is "stuck" in the IMG and has an equally meaningless description. Useless for a "normal" menu.
If you use the BUKRS field for S_TABU_LIN then it will have major consequences. Please be carefull of it.
F_BKPF_BUP-BEGRU is the correct approach (giving you also the option of maintaining and posting to account types and individual accounts).
From my experience a user with such access to OB52, can post anyway to the same KOART and then close it.
Cheers,
Julius

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Hoping you could help it, as our organization had that policy from our previous system,
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Sorry, but I do not think that's possible in SAP Standard.
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First i would like to tell about fiscal year
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Hi everyone,
I'm working on a system with different company code, each company code has a posting period variant.
My question is:
Is there the possibility (by tcode 'OB52') that more users can, at the same time, open\close posting periods related to them posting period variant?
In practice, my customer asks me:
AT THE SAME TIME: - user x (company X) modifies posting periods of PPV '001' and user y (company Y) modifies posting periods of PPV '002'...
Is it possible???
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Probably I may not recommend this. These are most critical activities. We do not the dependency of the tables. Meaning that the table could be linked to many other tables and fields in database. This may end up in data integrity issues.
These are not the activities that we should do on a daily basis. Normally we open and close the period on a monthly basis and open this screen for few minutes or so. I would suggest first user can go and change and then he come back and the second person may change.
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Hii
In standard SAP there is not such functionality where u can do these kind of configuration...it is at least for a month that is through OB52.
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In our company there are many posting period variants. We want to restrict the access for opening and closing posting periods in OB52 by Posting period variant. i.e. User can open/close for a specific posting period variant and not all.
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Is there any chance to control the user to open and close another company code posting period variant in TCODE: S_ALR_87003642.
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