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accountingPeriod resource type (Beta)

Important

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Represents an accounting period in Business Central.

Note

For information about enabling APIs for Business Central see Enabling the APIs for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Methods

Method Return Type Description
GET accountingPeriod accountingPeriod Gets a accounting period object.

Properties

Property Type Description
id GUID The unique ID of the accounting period. Non-editable.
displayName string Specifies the accounting period's name. This name will appear on all sales documents for the accounting period.
startingDate date
endingDate date
newFiscalYear boolean
fiscalYearStartDate date
fiscalYearEndDate date
closed boolean
lastModifiedDateTime datetime The last datetime the accounting period was modified. Read-Only.

JSON representation

Here is a JSON representation of the accountingPeriod resource.

{
    "id": "GUID",
    "displayName": "string",
    "startingDate": "date",
    "endingDate": "date",
    "newFiscalYear": "boolean",
    "fiscalYearStartDate": "date",
    "fiscalYearEndDate": "date",
    "closed": "boolean",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "datetime"
}

GET accountingPeriod