Consecutive fiscal years
Isah Finance uses consecutive fiscal years. If a company/fiscal year has a subsequent fiscal year, all balance sheet transactions will be processed in the current fiscal year as well as the subsequent fiscal years.
Opening a new fiscal year
Some ledger accounts are included in the balance sheet, which is a statement of all assets and liabilities of your business at a particular point in time. Transactions on those ledger accounts are posted not only in the year of the posting date, but also in subsequent fiscal years. For example, if the 'Buildings' ledger account has a balance of € 1,500,000 in 2016 and a balance of € 200,000 in 2017, then the 2017 closing balance shown on the balance sheet will be € 1,700,000 (€ 1,500,000 + € 200,000).
The table below shows which ledger categories are part of the balance sheet and the profit and loss account.
|
Balance sheet |
Profit & loss account |
Category starting with number: |
0,1, 2 or 3 |
Other numbers |
Unrecognized result of previous fiscal years
To display only the actual result in the current fiscal year, the unrecognized result is presented in a separate ledger account called Unrecognized Result.
Recognize Result
Use the Recognize Result process to post the result of a fiscal year to a ledger account. For balance sheet accounts, this is the ledger account 'General Reserve', and for profit and loss accounts, this is the ledger account 'Recognized Result'. The result will be displayed on the Ledger Overview form. The Recognize Result process also ensures that the unrecognized result is set to € 0.00 in the subsequent fiscal year.
Posting to previous years
In some cases, postings are still made to a previous year. In that case, run the Recognize Result process again.