FINANCIALPERIODOFFSET

Overview

The FINANCIALPERIODOFFSET function returns the ERP financial period (in MM-YYYY format and based on the Master Financial Calendar) that is a specific number of periods before or after the listed period.

Syntax

CODE

=FINANCIALPERIODOFFSET(Connection, Period, Offset, Company)

Arguments

The FINANCIALPERIODOFFSET function uses the following arguments (see our article on using arrays or cell ranges as arguments):

Argument	Required/Optional	Description
`Connection`	Required	The name of the connection as configured in the Connection Manager
`Period`	Required	The starting financial period, in MM-YYYY format
`Offset`	Required	The number of financial periods to add or subtract from the starting financial period.
`Company`	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.

Examples

Example 1

CODE

=FINANCIALPERIODOFFSET("demo","12-2019",-3)

Description
Returns the third Acumatica financial period before period 12-2019.

Result
09-2019

Example 2

CODE

=FINANCIALPERIODOFFSET("demo","09-2018",5)

Description
Returns the fifth Acumatica financial period after period 12-2018.

Result
01-2019

This function will include any adjustment periods defined within Acumatica: