Hi Christine

The following assumes you are using Ledger 9.0.

What you want to do is possible if you haven't posted ANYTHING to periods 6 thru 12. In that case, immediately close those periods. Error batches containing transactions with those periods will accumulate - just let them. You will eventually need to change the periods of every single transaction in those error batches - 6 will become 1, 7 will become 2, etc.

When you are finished with the short year, archive those error batches, perform year-end, change the dates of new year's fiscal periods, and then change the periods of the archived batches, bring them back and post them.

As tech support suggests, this is not for the faint of heart, and is one of the ways consultants such as me provide value. It goes without saying that you will not be able to get comparative financials for a year.

Steve