How To Guides

This section provides how to guides around locking and unlocking financial years within the Metrix Asset Management system.

Subsections of How To Guides

Locking a Financial Year

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The instructions within this current document pertain to features that are flagged as BETA content. As such, the process involved in completing these actions are subject to change. This document will be updated when such an event occurs.

To process the locking of a financial year, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Capital Financial Year page (Capital > EOY Processing).

  2. A financial summary of your asset portfolio is presented, along with a number of steps that are generally performed throughout a financial year.

  3. Ensure you are satisfied with the completion or otherwise of each these steps by clicking on the bubbles denoting each sequence.

  4. To perform a rollover and lock the current financial year, navigate to step 4 - Rollover.

  5. Click ‘Rollover & Lock the X Financial Year’ (X will be replaced with the current financial year label).

  6. To confirm this action, you will be prompted to type the current financial year into a text box, and then click ‘Rollover’.

  7. The financial year has now been locked, and the system has progressed to the next financial year.

Unlocking a Financial Year

To process the reverting / unlocking of a financial year, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Capital Settings page (Capital > Capital Settings).

  2. This page displays the current financial year, as well as the most recently locked financial year (if any).

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    The current financial year is defined as the period following the most recently locked financial year. If there is no locked year, the current financial year is calculated from the period of the first entry into the Financial Transactions Ledger.

  3. To revert or unlock a previously locked financial year, simply click on the button labelled ‘Unlock for Finance Posting’ adjacent to the ‘Latest Lock Year’ label.

  4. Confirm you decision in the popup dialog.

  5. The financial year has now been reverted to the previously locked year.