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title: "Close financial periods (CA506000)"
description: "You can use this window to close active financial periods in the Cash management workspace as a required stage of closing a period in the General ledger workspace."
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lastmod: 2026-02-19
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# Close financial periods (CA506000)

Last modified February 19, 2026

> You can use this window to close active financial periods in the Cash management workspace as a required stage of closing a period in the General ledger workspace.


This topic provides information about the elements in this window in Visma Net, such as fields, field values, buttons, and check boxes.

You can use this window to close active financial periods in the Cash management workspace as a
required stage of closing a period in the General ledger workspace.
The financial
period can be closed in the General ledger workspace only if it is closed in the
Supplier ledger, Customer ledger, Inventory, and Cash management workspaces.

When you close a given financial period in the Cash management workspace, all preceding active periods will be closed as well if they have not already been closed.

Generally, posting transactions to closed periods is not allowed.
In order to post to closed
periods, you should select the **Allow posting to closed periods** check box in the [General ledger preferences (GL102000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/general-ledger/general-ledger-windows/general-ledger-preferences-gl102000/index.md) window.

## The window toolbar

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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Close periods</td>
<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Initiates the process of closing the financial periods you have selected (by using the check boxes in the unlabelled column).</td>
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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Opens the <strong>Unreleased cash management documents</strong> report so you can view and print the open documents for the selected financial period.</td>
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## The table

The table contains the list of all currently active financial periods for the earliest year
that has active periods.
Select the period or periods you want to close, and click
**Close periods**.
A period can be closed only if there are
no documents with the **On hold**, **Balanced**, and **Released** statuses
to be posted to this period.

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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Period</td>
<td class="vismanet-table__cell">An ID of the financial period.</td>
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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Description</td>
<td class="vismanet-table__cell">A description of the financial period.</td>
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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">A check box that indicates (if selected) that the financial period is active.</td>
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<h2>Related pages</h2><h3>Concepts</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/general-ledger/manage-financial-periods/about-period-end-closing-procedures/index.md">About period-end closing procedures</a></li>
</ul><h3>Tasks</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/supplier-ledger/suppliers/close-a-financial-period-in-supplier-ledger/index.md">Close a financial period in Supplier ledger</a></li>
</ul><h3>Windows</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/general-ledger/general-ledger-windows/close-financial-periods-gl503000/index.md">Close financial periods (GL503000)</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/supplier-ledger/supplier-ledger-windows/purchase-invoices-pending-payment-ap403000/index.md">Purchase invoices pending payment (AP403000)</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/supplier-ledger/supplier-ledger-windows/close-financial-periods-ap506000/index.md">Close financial periods (AP506000)</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/supplier-ledger/supplier-ledger-windows/prepare-for-closing-ap50700s/index.md">Prepare for closing (AP50700S)</a></li>
</ul>


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