Defining Strategic Ledger calendars

The calendar is used to post Strategic Ledger amounts. If you need to post amounts for previous years, then you must define new calendar year records for the relevant previous years.

Note: The Strategic Ledger calendar does not have to match the General Ledger calendar or the calendars of the applications that create Strategic Ledger transactions.

The Strategic Ledger calendar defines the period end dates for a daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly fiscal year calendar. For example, specify each day for a daily calendar, specify the end of each week for a weekly calendar, and the same for the monthly and quarterly calendar. Each end date represents a period; if you define daily end dates, then you have 365 periods.

Follow these steps to define a calendar:

Access Strategic Ledger Calendar (SL51.1).
Click New Calendar to open Define Calendar (SL51.2). Use this form to define a calendar name, a description of the calendar, and the fiscal year.

Within the Define Calendar subform, click Copy to open Calendar Copy (SL51.3). Use this form to define a new calendar by copying an existing one and making changes.
Select the Change form action to add the calendar.
In the End Date field on SL51.1, specify the period end date. For example, specify 131XX for January 31, 19XX.

Note: If you are defining a daily calendar, then you must specify each day. If you are defining a weekly calendar, then specify the end of each week. Specify the end of each quarter for a quarterly calendar.
(Optional) Specify a description of the period end date. If you leave this field blank, then the default value is the period end date long description. For example, if you specify 13100 in the End Date field, then January 31, 2000 is set as default.