The New Cycle Date must be manually entered on the first cycle. The subsequent cycle defaults to the next cycle month/year.

Clicking the Start Cycle button will:

• Update the gas cycle status to Started and the gas cycle month/year to the next month.  
• The Start Monthly Cycle screen displays the Clear Cycle option, and the Start Cycle button is disabled (grayed out)
• Update Company Maintenance> First Purchaser Gas current cycle status and date
• Temporarily move gas ticket records for that cycle month/year to historical tickets for gas tickets.  Those tickets are unavailable for editing.
  • Gas ticket allocations are not being handled at this time.
• Recalculate gas ticket. -  If the calc type is Auto-Calc MCF,  only recalculate the MCF.

Clicking on the Clear Cycle will:

• Clear the current cycle.
• Open the cycle/month that was locked and allow gas tickets to be booked to that accounting month.
• Moves gas ticket records from historical gas tickets to the gas ticket maintenance screen.
  • Gas tickets that have not already been extracted to revenue are now editable.  New gas tickets can be added.
• Gas cycle status of Started is cleared.
• Cycle Status and date on Company Maintenance> First Purchaser Gas is cleared.
• Start Monthly Cycle Screen makes the Start Cycle button available and disables the Clear Cycle button.