Opening balance for new financial year

How do i close the current financials and proceed to the new year financials ?

Will the opening balances be transferred automatically, or will i have to manually do that?

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Manager is a perpetual accounting system and there is no need for closing and reopening a financial year

Welcome to the forum @nirav_Shah1,

Actual closing Journal Entries for Retained Earnings accounts are not required.

Whenever you generate a Balance Sheet, Trial Balance or General Ledger report, manager does automatic closing of Profit and Loss to Retained Earnings account.

It also does automatically generate Foreign Exchange Difference entries if you have accounts denominated in Foreign Currencies and you keep an updated Exchange Rates table.

Other than that, you might want to do manual closing for specific regulatory provisions and reserves.

Dear colleagues,

We are approaching the end of the financial year. I am using the cloud version of this software, and I would like to know how I can close the balances for the current year and open a new financial year (for example, 2026), with balances carried forward, income and expense accounts closed, and a fresh start for the new year.

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Hello @Naem_Suliman,

Welcome to the forum.

The same advice given to the OP still holds true:

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