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You can set up month end date rules that you can later associate with an entity or master fund. A month end date rule determines how the system identifies the monthly accounting date for an entity or master fund.

The system stores the month end accounting date on all transactions booked to Eagle's Accounting solution. This allows you to book As Of activity in the current accounting period but reflect the transaction in the monthly period in which it actually occurred. This It also allows you to report these transactions in the correct month end report without having to reopen closed daily valuation and accounting periods. You can generate several ledger and subledger reports based on the month end accounting date.

Add a Month End Date Rule

Examples

You can base the month end date rule on the:

  • Last business day of the month. The system uses the last business day of the month based on the entity’s business calendar specified in the Calendar Name field as the month end date.

  • Last calendar day of the month. The system uses the last calendar day of the month as the month date date.

  • Same occurrence of a weekday

  • Same occurrence of a business day

  • Same occurrence of a calendar day

    Add Month End Date Rules

    In the Add Month End Date Rule panel, you can create a month end date rule.

    To add a month end date rule:

    1. In Accounting Center, in the left navigation pane, click Setup Ledger > Month End Date Rules Add Month End Date Rule.
      You see the Add Month End Date Rule panel.

    2. In the Rule ID field, enter specify the identifier name for the month end date rule that you are adding.

    3. In the Month End Date field, select the type of month end monthly accounting date to which use for the rule applies.
      Options include:  
      - Last Business Day. Default. Amortization/accretion rules specify how the system amortizes the securities held by the entity. View filenameObjectives - By Team - ART Planning - Accounting - Confluence.url Allows you to set up a monthly accounting date that occurs on the last business day of the month. The system identifies the last business day of the month based on the entity’s business calendar specified in the Calendar Name field.
      - Last Calendar Day. A URGL rule establishes the proper treatment of unrealized market and currency gains/losses.  Allows you to set up a monthly accounting date that occurs on the last calendar day of the month. The DEFAULT rule you can select for an entity uses this logic.
      - Same occurrence of a weekday. Variation margin Allows you to set up a monthly accounting date that occurs on the same day of the week for a specified frequency, based on the Week Day value and Assign Day value selected. For example, you can set Week Day to Tuesday and Assign Day to 4th for the system to assign the fourth Tuesday of the month as the monthly accounting date.
      - Same occurrence of a business day. Allows you to define which business day of the month to use as the monthly accounting date, based on the Month Day value selected. For example, if you set Month Day to 10, the monthly accounting date is the 10th business day of each month. The system identifies business days based on the entity’s business calendar specified in the Calendar Name field.
      - Same occurrence of a calendar day. Allows you to define which calendar day of the month to use as the monthly accounting date, based on the Month Day value selected. For example, if you set Month Day to 18, the monthly accounting date is the 18th day of each month.

    4. If you selected the Same occurrence of a weekday option, select a day in of the week in the Week Day list.
      You can select a value of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. For example, if you set Week Day to

    5. If you selected the Same occurrence of a weekday option, select a day in the week when the weekday to use in the Assign Day list.
      Options include:
      - 1st
      - 2nd
      - 3rd
      - 4th
      - 5th
      - LAST

    6. If you selected the Same occurrence of a business day or Same occurrence of a calendar day option, select a value in the Month Day list.
      You can select a value from 1 to 31.

    7. Click Submit.
      The system creates an instance number for the accounting rule (instance tag 4629) that serves as the primary key for the accounting rule.You are ready to add the amortization/accretion rulesURGL rules, or variation margin override rules for the accounting rule.

    After you define a month end date rule, you can associate that month end date rule with an entity or master fund.

    Change a Month End Date

    Rules

    Rule

    In the Change Month End Date Rule panel, you can edit one or more a month end date rulesrule

    To change a month end date rulesrule:

    1. In Accounting Center, in the left navigation pane, click Setup Ledger > Month End Date Rules Change Month End Date Rule.
      You see the Change Month End Date Rule panel.

    2. In the Query Based On Rule ID field, identify the rules enter the identifier for the rule you want to change.  
      Options include:
      –  Rule Name. Allows you to change an accounting rule that you specify in the Rule Name field.
      –  Type. Allows you to change all accounting rules with a rule type that you specify in the Rule Type field.
      –  All. Allows you to change all accounting rules.

    3. Click Submit.
      You see the accounting rules that met your criteria in the Show All tab.

    4. Select each accounting
      You can leave the field blank to view all month end date rules.  

    5. In the Show All tab, select the check box of the month end date rule you want to change and click Change Selected Accounting RulesRecords.
      You see each the rule you selected in the Change Selected Accounting Rules Records tab.

    6. Modify the accounting rulesrule values
      You can change all values other than the Rule ID.

    7. Click Submit.

    WRITERS NOTE: the Change panel is odd. It lets you leave the Rule ID blank to view multiple rules to change, but you can only select the check box for changing one rule.

    Delete Month End Date Rules

    In the Delete Month End Date Rule panel, you can delete one or more month end date rules.

    WRITERS NOTE: The system prohibits didn’t prohibit the deletion of an accounting rule that has an underlying amortization rule.??????a month end date rule assign to an entity. Should we tell users not to delete a rule assigned to entities?. You cannot change the rule on the change entity panel.

    To delete month end date rules:

    1. In Accounting Center, in the left navigation pane, click Setup Ledger > Month End Date Rules Delete Month End Date Rule.
      You see the Delete Month End Date Rule panel.

    2. In the Query Based On Rule ID field, identify the rules enter the identifier for the rule you want to delete.  
      Options include:
      –  Rule Name. Allows you to delete an accounting rule that you specify in the Rule Name field.
      –  Type. Allows you to delete all accounting rules with a rule type that you specify in the Rule Type field.
      –  All. Allows you to delete all accounting rules.
      You can leave the field blank to view all month end date rules.  

    3. Click Submit.
      You see the accounting month end date rules that met your criteria in the Show All tab.

    4. Select each accounting month end date rule that you want to delete and click Delete Selected Accounting RulesRecords.
      You see each month end date rule you selected for deletion in the Delete Selected Accounting Rules Records tab.

    5. Click Submit to delete the selected month end date rules.

    List Month End Date Rules

    In the List Month End Date Rule panel, you can view one or more month end date rules.

    To list month end date rules:

    1. In Accounting Center, in the left navigation pane, click Setup Ledger > Month End Date Rules List Month End Date Rule.
      You see the List Month End Date Rule panel.

    2. In the Rule ID field, enter the identifiers identifier for the rule you want to view.
      You can leave the field blank to view all month end date rules.  

    3. Click Submit.
      You see the month end date rules that met your criteria in the Show All tab and the Month Date Rule tab..

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