COM1085 - Accounting periods: company accounting periods: using MAPD to create more than 5 APs

It is July 2024 and you want to amend the AP (Accounting Period) record of a company for the periods from 01/04/2019 to 31/12/2024. The existing record and the actual and expected APs are as follows:

Recorded APs

Actual and Expected APs



01/04/2019 to 31/03/2020

01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019

01/04/2020 to 31/03/2021

01/01/2020 to 31/12/2020

01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022

01/01/2021 to 31/12/2021

01/04/2022 to 31/03/2023

01/01/2022 to 31/12/2022

01/04/2023 to 31/03/2024

01/01/2023 to 31/12/2023

01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024


Function MAPD (Maintain AP Dates) will not let you make the changes in one operation because it:

听听听听听听听听 will not let you enter more than five new APs at a time

听听听听听听听听 demands that the end date of the last AP you enter either:

听听听听听听听听听 coincides with that of a currently recorded AP shown on the screen

听听听听听听听听听 is later than that of any currently recorded AP

In these circumstances, you have to use the function twice. The first time you could amend the AP record to

01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019

01/01/2020 to 31/12/2020

01/01/2021 to 31/12/2021

01/01/2022 to 31/12/2022

01/01/2023 to 31/03/2023


Please note that the last AP is a 鈥榙ummy鈥� AP terminating on the same date as an existing AP shown on the screen.

You then use Function MAPD again to change the 鈥榙ummy鈥� AP and add the final AP to the record as follows:

01/01/2023 to 31/12/2023

01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024


Remember that if the accounting period ends in February you should end the period on 29/02.