FINANCIALPERIOD
Overview
The FINANCIALPERIOD function returns the matching financial period for a given year and period number (as defined in the ERP's master financial calendar).
Syntax
=FINANCIALPERIOD(Connection, Year, PeriodNumber, Company)Arguments
The FINANCIALPERIOD function uses the following arguments (see our articles on filtering techniques and using arrays or cell ranges as arguments):
Argument | Required/Optional | Description |
| Required | The name of the connection, as specified in the Connection Manager |
| Required | The year of the financial period. |
| Required | The period number. A value that is lower or higher than the number of periods in the current year will yield a period that is in a different financial year. |
| Optional | The ID of the company whose financial calendar is to be used for determining the results. This argument is used when the Multiple Calendar Support feature is enabled within Acumatica. The company financial calendar of the specified company will be used. If left blank, the Master Financial Calendar will be used. |
Example
The following examples assume a financial year with 12 periods.
Function | Result |
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 2) | 02-2017 |
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 1) | 01-2017 |
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 0) | 12-2016 |
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", -1) | 11-2016 |
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 13) | 01-2018 |
=FINANCIALPERIOD("Demo", "2017", 14) | 02-2018 |