Customer Engagement & Dynamics CRM Forum

Hi,
We have just been purchased by a larger company, and our financial year is going to be amended to fit in with theirs.
We currently run 1st July to 30th June, and they use calendar years.
As a result, at the end of this financial year we will have a 6 month stub year, followed by subsequent years running Jan 1st to Dec 31st.

Can anyone help me understand how we can handle this in Dynamics CRM? I have not been able to find any way to accurately represent this, with my main concern being that the Advanced Find date fields options will be misleading & invalid.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
Jo

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Jo Anslow
Information Systems Specialist
Granta Design
Cambridge
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In Settings -> Business Administration, you can change your Fiscal Year settings. Be aware, since CE/CRM is not a financial system, it's just going to change the fiscal year, it's not going to account for previous fiscal years or any other changes.  But everything that lines up to fiscal year, like Goal tracking, or advanced find filters, will then use the updated fiscal year.  You're likely going to have to manually manage any discrepancies.

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Wayne Walton
CRM Practice Lead
eBECS Limited
Atlanta GA
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-06-2019 06:11 AM
From: Jo Anslow
Subject: Working with changing financial years in Dynamics

Hi,
We have just been purchased by a larger company, and our financial year is going to be amended to fit in with theirs.
We currently run 1st July to 30th June, and they use calendar years.
As a result, at the end of this financial year we will have a 6 month stub year, followed by subsequent years running Jan 1st to Dec 31st.

Can anyone help me understand how we can handle this in Dynamics CRM? I have not been able to find any way to accurately represent this, with my main concern being that the Advanced Find date fields options will be misleading & invalid.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
Jo

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Jo Anslow
Information Systems Specialist
Granta Design
Cambridge
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Count yourself lucky that you can change the fiscal settings :)

In the "old" days of CRM, fiscal settings was a one-time setting only.

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Feridun Kadir
Principal Consultant, MVP
Expert CRM Services Ltd
Stansted
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-06-2019 10:06 AM
From: Wayne Walton
Subject: Working with changing financial years in Dynamics

In Settings -> Business Administration, you can change your Fiscal Year settings. Be aware, since CE/CRM is not a financial system, it's just going to change the fiscal year, it's not going to account for previous fiscal years or any other changes.  But everything that lines up to fiscal year, like Goal tracking, or advanced find filters, will then use the updated fiscal year.  You're likely going to have to manually manage any discrepancies.

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Wayne Walton
CRM Practice Lead
eBECS Limited
Atlanta GA

Original Message:
Sent: 02-06-2019 06:11 AM
From: Jo Anslow
Subject: Working with changing financial years in Dynamics

Hi,
We have just been purchased by a larger company, and our financial year is going to be amended to fit in with theirs.
We currently run 1st July to 30th June, and they use calendar years.
As a result, at the end of this financial year we will have a 6 month stub year, followed by subsequent years running Jan 1st to Dec 31st.

Can anyone help me understand how we can handle this in Dynamics CRM? I have not been able to find any way to accurately represent this, with my main concern being that the Advanced Find date fields options will be misleading & invalid.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
Jo

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Jo Anslow
Information Systems Specialist
Granta Design
Cambridge
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