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2026/10/21 • 2 min. to read

Accruals and Deferrals is configured in the standard Deferral Template Card. The app adds settings that control how schedules use start and end dates, how amounts are calculated, and which template is proposed automatically.

Configure a Deferral Template

SettingHow it affects processing
Deferral TypeControls where amounts belonging to periods before the permitted posting or deferral period are accumulated and posted.
Calculation type with start-/ending dateDefines whether schedule amounts are distributed using actual days, equal 30-day periods, or the linear method with actual boundary periods.
No Period CheckAllows the dates entered on a line to produce a different number of periods than the template's standard number of periods.
Purchase DefaultProposes this template on purchase lines and journal lines with purchase posting type when a deferral code is still empty.
Sales DefaultProposes this template on sales lines and journal lines with sales posting type when a deferral code is still empty.

Recommended Setup Order

  1. Set up the standard deferral accounts and the standard schedule fields.
  2. Choose the calculation and backdating behavior for each template.
  3. Mark at most one template as the purchase default and at most one as the sales default.
  4. Test a schedule with partial first and last months before using it in production.

Schedule Description

The standard Period Description can use %9. When a schedule is posted, this placeholder is replaced with the source line description.

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