Opera II Helpsheet: How to Change the Nominal Calendar

Over the past few years we have been sending out Helpsheets to our customers which help them to carry out tasks within their Pegasus Opera II accounting software. This Helpsheet covers 'Changing the Nominal Calendar'.

Pegasus Opera II - Changing Nominal Calendar

If you change to a different financial year end date (so the current financial year is no longer equivalent to a calendar year in length), the application determines the following year end date and period start dates according to the number of days in the current financial year.

The statutory changes required are outlined below:

It uses this information to calculate how many days adjustment to apply to the new financial calendar when you use the Year End command. You can override any of the dates calculated in this way on the Calendar tab, and use the Rebuild Periods and Rebuild History commands to update the database.