accountingperiod
controlThe period calendar: one row per period, hierarchical through parent, with year/quarter/adjustment flags and the close and lock state that governs what can still post.
this record exposes no lastmodifieddate — there is no watermark column here, so incremental extraction must full-refresh the period calendar.
isposting marks the postable base periods; isyear / isquarter rows are rollup parents and must be excluded before summing anything by period. transaction.postingperiod points here, and it is not the same thing as trandate.
What the badges mean
- master
- Data class: what the record holds — master data, transaction documents, control/configuration, or a documented convenience record. NetSuite has no product-family or schema axis, so this is the whole classification.
- Subsidiary-scoped
- The record carries a
subsidiarycolumn that partitions its rows, so the generated SQL anchors it. On a few records the column is a multiselect rather than a scalar foreign key — the table notes say which (see the quirks guide). - Location-scoped
- The record carries a
locationcolumn — an org segment in NetSuite before it is a warehouse — and the generated SQL anchors it the same way. - View
- A documented convenience record rather than a stored one. Land the records it stands in for instead of assuming it extracts as-is — the table notes say where the rows actually live.
Structural facts — how the record is partitioned, not a trap by itself
Join & extract hazards — verify before you rely on this
'T'/'F' string.Fields
14 fields · 1 key
14 fields.
| # | Field | Description | Type | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | id | Internal ID | NUMBER | Primary-key field |
| 2 | periodname | Period name | VARCHAR | |
| 3 | startdate | Period start date | DATE | The record's primary analysis date — a real DATE/TIMESTAMP column, no conversion needed |
| 4 | enddate | Period end date | DATE | |
| 5 | parent | Parent period (internal id) | NUMBER | |
| 6 | isposting | Postable base period | VARCHAR | |
| 7 | isyear | Period is a year rollup | VARCHAR | |
| 8 | isquarter | Period is a quarter rollup | VARCHAR | |
| 9 | isadjust | Adjustment period | VARCHAR | |
| 10 | closed | Period closed | VARCHAR | |
| 11 | closedondate | Date the period was closed | DATE | |
| 12 | alllocked | All subledgers locked | VARCHAR | |
| 13 | allownonglchanges | Non-GL changes still allowed | VARCHAR | |
| 14 | isinactive | Inactive | VARCHAR |
Field provenance: hand-curated. 1 key field.
Boilerplate SQL
Starting point for reading the Connect-landed copy of accountingperiod on Databricks — dates are real DATE/TIMESTAMP columns and need no conversion, and the partition anchors are already in place. This record carries no modification stamp, and the snippet says so where the watermark would otherwise go. Set your Unity Catalog location, schema, and filter values below; they’re substituted into the SQL and the copy button.
5 parameters not filled: <catalog>, <schema>, <id>, <DATE_FROM>, <DATE_TO>
-- ============================================================
-- Table : accountingperiod — The period calendar: one row per period, hierarchical through parent, with year/quarter/adjustment flags and the close and lock state that governs what can still post.
-- Purpose: Column-selected read of accountingperiod — auto-generated from field metadata
-- Grain : One row per id
-- Caution: this record exposes no lastmodifieddate — there is no watermark column here, so incremental extraction must full-refresh the period calendar.
-- Notes : Auto-generated skeleton for NetSuite data landed in your lakehouse from a SuiteAnalytics Connect (or SuiteQL) extract — it never addresses live NetSuite. Identifiers are lowercase as NetSuite2.com renders them. Select-type columns hold numeric internal ids: BUILTIN.DF() display resolution exists only at extraction time, so decode ids by joining the landed list records; see quirks #display-values. Check-box columns arrive as 'T'/'F' strings; see quirks #tf-booleans.
-- ============================================================
SELECT
t.id AS "Internal ID",
t.periodname AS "Period name",
t.startdate AS "Period start date",
t.enddate AS "Period end date",
t.parent AS "Parent period (internal id)",
t.isposting AS "Postable base period", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.isyear AS "Period is a year rollup", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.isquarter AS "Period is a quarter rollup", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.isadjust AS "Adjustment period", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.closed AS "Period closed", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.closedondate AS "Date the period was closed",
t.alllocked AS "All subledgers locked", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.allownonglchanges AS "Non-GL changes still allowed", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.isinactive AS "Inactive" -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
FROM <catalog>.<schema>.accountingperiod t
WHERE
1 = 1 -- no partition column on this record; the filters below are optional
-- AND t.id = <id>
-- AND t.startdate >= DATE '<DATE_FROM>'
-- AND t.startdate <= DATE '<DATE_TO>'
-- no lastmodifieddate on this record — there is no watermark column, so incremental extraction must full-refresh it (see quirks #deletes)
ORDER BY t.id;Verified August 2026 · Analytics Browser 2021.1 · corroborated 2025.2
Select columns hold internal ids, not display text — see decoding display values.
Relationships
Diagram of 1-hop neighbors — join details below. Document-link edges are highlighted; they chain one document to the next and are the joins newcomers most often get wrong.
Join details
ON transaction.postingperiod = accountingperiod.id- accountingperiodaccountingperiodforeign key · N:1
ON accountingperiod1.parent = accountingperiod2.id ON consolidatedexchangerate.postingperiod = accountingperiod.idON budgets.year = accountingperiod.id
More Foundation tables
- classificationThe class segment: one row per class, hierarchical through parent. The analytics id is classification; the NetSuite UI calls it "Class".
- consolidatedexchangeratePeriod consolidation rates: one row per accounting book, posting period and from/to subsidiary pair, carrying the current, average and historical rate flavors side by side.
- currencyThe currency list: one row per currency the account transacts in, with precision, base/anchor flags and a default rate.
- currencyrateDated transaction exchange rates: one row per base-currency / transaction-currency pair per effective date, with a rate type.
- departmentThe department segment: one row per department, hierarchical through parent, used to stripe transaction lines for reporting.
- locationThe location master: stocking sites, stores and virtual locations, hierarchical through parent, carrying the inventory-availability, bin and warehouse-management switches that decide how stock behaves at a site.