Unable to Post to Current Month

[savagebooks]

We have been using PowerChurch for a couple years for contributions and this year for everything. I went to post within Fund Accoutning today and was unable to. The program is only willing to take posts for January 2009 - June 2009. When I try to post July items, they disappear. There is no July option in Fund Accounting - I get a message telling me that I have no items to post from January 2009 - June 2009. It is like the world ended on June 30 and I missed it.

Has anyone else had a similar problem? How did you solve it?

If this has been dealt with recently, please let me know how to find the information.

Thank you.

Sandra

[tborgal]

Sounds like you are set to only have 6 months open in Fund Accounting. You have two options. You can close an accounting month or you can set you system to have more months open.

To close a month, which would be January in this case, got to >Accounting >Fund Accounting then select >Close Month

To increase the number of months open go to > File >Preferences > Accounting Setup - click on the Fund Accounting tab. About half way down the window you will find "Number of months that can be open at one time".

I would guess you will find this set to 6, you can increase this to up to a maximum of 18.

One of these two options should resolve your problem.

[savagebooks]

Tom - thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! That was exactly the problem. I knew that we could have 18 months open at once but, not being the one who originally set up the program, I didn't know that it was set at 6 months. I followed your instuctions to change it to 18 and it worked.

I appreciate you taking the time to explain this to me.

Thank you.

Sandra