Annual Processing Mode

When you set the Processing Mode to Annual, you run the Period Build program once for the entire year, up to the As Of date. The system creates only one stock valuation record for the year.

When processing in annual mode, set the processing option for Clear and Restart to On. When set to On, the application reprocesses all transactions for the current year. If you do not set this processing option to On, the system displays an error.

Reprocessing all transactions from the beginning of the year calculates the average unit cost and creates a new layer.

Note: Processing LIFO calculations in annual mode affects performance because every run must select all transactions belonging to the processed year. Depending on the number of transactions in the F4111 table and the F39120W table, this batch process requires a considerable amount of time to reselect all stock transactions for the current year in order to recalculate the average unit cost.