Making the FA period just 1 month instead of a full fiscal year or a dummy accounting year shifting one month forwards each month on restoration will help simulate closing month by closing dummy year.

The devs can put out a list of new features in FA 2.4 that will help users in deciding if and when to update.

- financial year is 1 Jul 2014 - 30 Jun 2015
- client will continue to use their manual system to finish this year
- we're re-entering past transactions into FA, so not having a monthly close feature is not hurting us
- we use FA in parallel with old system for new transactions
- we update FA to 2.4 when available
- we use this time to skill-up the team on FA, do a nice yearly close, and move into the next year clean
- FA 2.4.x becomes official system of record for this next financial year (1 Jul 2015 - 30 Jun 2016)

Note: The entry of past transactions and parallel operation is something the client feels strongly about to give them confidence that FA can handle their workload... which looks great so far.