Foreign Currency Revaluation of Open Payables and Receivables 

  1. Select SAP R/3 System screen Accounting ® Financial accounting ® General ledger
  2. On the General Ledger screen select Periodic processing ® Closing ® Valuate ® Open items in foreign currency.
  3. On the Open Item Foreign Currency Valuation per.... screen, select Get variant...

    4. A dialog box appears.

  4. Mark the following data:
    5.

     

    Field

     

    Europe

    North America

    (Method I)

    North America

    (Method II)

    Variant name

    DEMO_1

    DEMO_2

    DEMO_3

  5. Select Choose.

    6. The variant defaults are copied.

  6. On the Open Item Foreign Currency Valuation per.... screen, enter the following data


    7. Field


    Europe

    North America
    Method I

    North America
    Method II

    Balance sheet key date

    last day of period 1

    last day of period 1

    last day of period 1

    Posting date of the posting

    last day of period 1

    last day of period 1

    last day of period 1

    Reverse posting date

    		    

    first day of period 2

    Document number

    Invoice to be revaluated

    Invoice to be revaluated

    Invoice to be revaluated

  7. Select Execute.
  8. On the Open Item Foreign Currency Valuation per ........ screen, the item is revaluated and the revaluation difference displayed.

    9. If you use method I, one document will be posted. This document will represent the realized revaluation gain or loss up to that point in time.

    If you use method II, two documents will be posted. The first document will represent the accrual of the unrealized revaluation gain or loss for the current period. The second document will represent the reversal of that gain or loss at the beginning of the following period. After you execute the program, you will get a user message giving the document number that has been created. This is the document number of the reversal, or second document. Subtract one from that document number to get the number of the accrual document.

     

  9. If you use the Method II you have to open the Batch-Input folder after the valuation. For this, you have to select System ® Service ® Batch input ® Edit.

    10. On the Batch Input: Initial Screen enter the following data:

    Field

    Data (Method II)

    Session name

    SAPF100_3

    Select Enter.

    On the Batch Input: Session overview, screen mark the line SAPF100_3 and select Process session.

    On the dialog box Process Session SAPF100_3 mark Background and select Process.

  10. Return to the General Ledger screen.