Posting Bill of Exchange Presentation 

Prerequisites

You have maintained the settings in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Financial Accounting under Business Transactions ® Bill of Exchange Transactions ® Bill of Exchange Receivable ® Present Bill of Exchange at Bank.

You can also enter these same settings from the Banking Menu Input ® Bill of exchange presentation.

You can define a transaction variant so that the fields already contain values. In the Implementation Guide choose Financial Accounting ® Banking-Related Accounting ® Business Transactions ® Bill of Exchange Transactions ® Bill of Exchange Receivable ® Present Bill of Exchange Receivable at Bank ® Define User-Specific Settings.

Procedure

  1. In Banking choose Input ® Bill of exchange presentation ® From account.
  2. Enter a company code and a bill of exchange receivable account for the bills of exchange receivable to be presented, or enter a work list for bill of exchange receivable accounts.
  3. Enter the due date (from - to) for bill of exchange selection.
  4. Only bills of exchange whose due dates lie within the set time period are taken into account.

  5. If need be, you can enter further selection criteria, (for example, payment methods, document types, business areas, and so on).
  6. Choose Bill of exchange presentation ® Bill of exchange list.

The system displays a list of the paying company codes. The status of the bill of exchange is displayed, as follows:

  1. Choose Bill of exchange presentation ® House bank assignment.
  1. On the Bank Assignment Methods screen, choose the preferred method, (for example: Assign a bill of exchange directly to a bank) and then choose Continue.
  1. Enter the bill of exchange usage (for example, Collection).

The fixed value date and charges are dependent on bill of exchange usage.

Enter house bank ID and account ID and choose Continue.

The system displays the List of Bills of Exchange screen once more.

  1. Choose Bill of Exchange Presentation ® Calculation of fees, and enter the date when the bill of exchange was presented.

This date is the starting point for calculation of the value date.

Choose Continue to return to the list of bills of exchange to be presented.

  1. Select tab Post and make entries in the active fields in the following areas:
  1. To post the returned bill of exchange, save your entries.

Depending on which field you selected, the system either posts the returned bill of exchange immediately or it creates a batch input session.