In normal business operations, you might need to post transactions to the new period before you close the prior period. It is not necessary to stop operations at the end of a period to perform period-end processing. Continue to enter and post transactions in the new period, but make sure you enter the correct transaction date. Your system automatically posts the transactions to the correct period accumulator based on the transaction date.

It is important that you print time-sensitive reports, such as the Control Report (see Control Report), before you post to a new period. See Printing in Denali for information on report printing.