How To Fix CNV_20200_CHECK032 - Participating company codes have different fiscal year variants

CNV_20200_CHECK032 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: CNV_20200_CHECK - Messages for check functions (company code merge)

• Message number: 032

• Message text: Participating company codes have different fiscal year variants

What causes this issue?

Participating company codes have different fiscal year variants.
By default, in a company code merge, the fiscal year variant of the
reference company code is assigned to the target company code.

System Response

Warning, with action required

How to fix this error?

You must check whether the differences of the fiscal year variants are
severe (different posting periods in the current fiscal year or
different current fiscal years). If the differences are severe, you must
harmonize the fiscal year variants before a company code merge. We
recommend that you contact SAP by creating a ticket component CA-LT-CNV.

Procedure for System Administrators

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

CNV_20200_CHECK032 - Details

• The SAP error message CNV_20200_CHECK032 indicates that there is a mismatch in the fiscal year variants of participating company codes during a data migration or conversion process. This error typically arises when you are trying to consolidate or migrate data from multiple company codes that have different fiscal year settings.
  
  Cause:
  The primary cause of this error is that the participating company codes have been configured with different fiscal year variants in the SAP system. Each company code can have its own fiscal year variant, which defines the start and end of the fiscal year, as well as the number of posting periods. When these company codes are involved in a transaction or migration that requires them to be aligned, the system raises this error.
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Check Fiscal Year Variants:
  
  Go to the SAP transaction code OB29 to view the fiscal year variants assigned to each