Posting not showing in correct year

Question

HI,
I am trying to figure out why postings that have an entry date of 01/02/2012 but a posting date of 31/12/2011 and Doc Date of 31/12/2011 are not showing up in the 2011 year for the Trial Balance, but the 2012 balance when Carry Forward has not been complete yet?
Any ideas as to why the system would not be recognizing these postings in 2011 in the trial balance?

Answer 1

I am sure your GL / AP / AR line item report (FBL3N / FBL1N / FBL5N) will show the posting in the correct fiscal year.  What is the nature of the account in question?  If it is receivables / payables, please read the following program documentation for balance carryforward receivables/payables transaction (F.07).  You will see the answer to your question as to why these balances are appearing in the new year.  Happy New Year, by the way :)!
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Carry Forward Receivables/Payables
Description
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.