Several agencies are receiving errors related to the closed accounting period when processing the second half (ITA) of an interagency transfer. This is occurring because the ITI agency has keyed a period of 1 on the ITI transaction and the ITA document does not allow this field to be modified.  If the ITI transaction was keyed with period 1, the ITA document needs to be discarded and the ITI document needs to be modified to not include the accounting period. 

GAO’s recommendation when processing any ITI documents is to leave the Record Date and Period blank on the Header and the Accounting line.  This will reduce the number of errors received on the ITA.  Please contact your GAO liaison if you have any questions.