Hi Sam,

What is the Current Fiscal Calendar for this company? Is the Next Year open?

This message appears when the sign-on date is not in the Current fiscal calendar, or the Next Year calendar if that is open. I suspect that for the company data you are opening, there is no fiscal calendar period related to your sign-on date.

When I log into sample data with today's date, I get that message you see, and creating a new batch entry defaults the period to 12. For me, the period default is coming from the sign-on month, irrespective of the year. Is this the source of the question?

We'd need more information about the company fiscal calendar, and where you were expecting a period 12 default that wasn't provided, in order to provide a more specific answer.