Protecting An Account's Bill Cycle

An account has a single bill cycle, but may have multiple obligations that are billed via cyclical billing process. In this case, when a cyclical obligation is activated, you may not want an algorithm to change the account's bill cycle. To prevent this you need to turn on the account's protect bill cycle flag.

When the last obligation for an account is stopped, the protect bill cycle flag is reset. This is to ensure that if the taxpayer starts a new obligation in the future the bill cycle can be set based on the new obligation's activation algorithm rules.