Our client very often after launching the year-end closing proceeds to liquidate and merge the transactions:

For example:

The opening 20AP vouchers is liquiquidated and merged with closing 20AP transactions.

Both of these vouchers were created by “Year and close” process, the one with date 31/12/2019 is the closing balance while the one with date 01/01/2020 is the one for the opening balance of the new year.

As I mentioned, the client settles the vouchers after running the “Year and close” process and would like to continue to do so.

With the feature "Awareness between ledger settlement and year-end close" active, it no longer allowed me to settle them.

Our idea is that to find a solution (for example disable the feature) to allow our client to continue with their current process so as not to be impacted.

If this feature becomes mandatory it could create severe impacts to our customer's business so I hope it will always be optional.