Question about accounting period:is there a way to lock them for certain team / team members only like when finance is working on month end no one else should be in doing stuff

Lock everything then grant roles to be used during month-end the override period restrictions permission? The downside is this wouldn't be limited to a specific subset of AR/AP/GL. The other downside is the users could access those roles outside of month-end. What's an example of a circumstance in which being able to lock AR and AP is not enough?

we ended up having "temporary" roles that we switch on at day 1 and switch off at day 4

thank you guys. the problem our accounting team runs into that at month end they start reconciling everything but someone comes along and posts something and going back and finding a discrepancy is cumbersome

posts what type of transaction?

the issue we were having was that the period should be closed for our AP/AR team but our accountants still need to post advanced intercompany journals, which Netsuite treats as AP/AR transactions...(and they are, technically...) You can try to get around this by instead adjusting the AP/AR forms to make period non-selectable and having it default but we had mixed results with that approach. And one or two exceptions is all it takes to make an angry accountant

ah makes sense