Special Calendar
Use the Special Calendar window to define periods that Payables uses for automatic withholding tax, recurring invoices, and for the Key Indicators Report. For example, if you monitor staff productivity weekly, use this window to define weekly periods for the Key Indicators calendar type.
The Report Run display only check box indicates that a Key Indicators Report has been run for this period. The check box is not applicable to Withholding Tax or Recurring Invoices calendar types.
Note: The periods you define in the Special Calendar window are completely separate from the periods you define in the Accounting Calendar window for your AP Accounting Periods. See: Defining Calendars.
To set up a special calendar:
1. In the Special Calendar window, select the Type of calendar you want to define:
2. Enter a calendar name and description. You will select this name from a list of values when you assign a special calendar to a key indicator report, recurring invoice template, or a withholding tax type tax name.
Enter the number of periods per year. For example, if you use a 12 month period calendar, enter 12.
3. Enter a period name. For example, Jan, Feb, Mar, etc., or Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4.
Enter in the Year field the calendar year in which a period occurs.
Enter numbers in the Sequence fields to indicate the order in which the periods occur. The sequence numbers of a period should represent the sequence of the period in a regular calendar. Therefore, May - December 1995 should be sequenced 5-12, and January 1996 should be sequenced 1.
Enter the Start Dates and the End Dates for the period. Periods within a year cannot overlap.
Payables displays the System Name for the period by combining the accounting period name you entered with the last two digits of the Start Date. Payables lists System Names whenever you select a period name from a list of values. This way you can use the same period names every year, such as Jan, Feb, but they will be unique to the period, because they will be Jan-98, Feb-98.
See Also
Key Indicators Report
Automatic Withholding Tax Overview
Entering Recurring Invoices