TimeSpans and Calendars

Cash flow worksheet reports year-to-date balances based on the As Of Date entered on the cash flow worksheet. When the GL Cash Flow process is run, the system determines the fiscal year based on the As of Date for a business unit. After determining the fiscal year, the system fetches data for the fiscal year up to the As of Date. For example, if the As of Date on the Cash flow worksheet is 12/31/2000. Data is fetched from the first period of the fiscal year up to 12/31/2000.

Scenario 1: If the calendar for the business unit happens to be April to March, then data is fetched from April, 2000 to December 2000 in the above example.

Scenario 2: If the calendar for the business unit is January to December, then data is fetched from January 2000 to December 2000 in the above example.

Use time span to include adjustment period data.

If business units do not share the same calendar years you must take this into consideration and make adjustments to the consolidated cash flow statement to compensate for the differences.

Adjustment period data is not reported if an appropriate time span is not defined and specified on the cash flow worksheet. Period 0 balances are always reported on the cash flow worksheet, you are not required to specify a time span on the worksheet for period 0 balances.