Balance Confirmation 

Definition

This is a business object in Account Management (FS-AM), which represents a legally binding information medium used by the bank for customers. This displays the current balance of a bank account, and depending on the settings, also interest information.

The balance confirmation is a feature of the account in Account Management (FS-AM). For more information on editing account contract features, see Editing Features in the SAP Library. The balance confirmation also has a feature attribute in the product upon which an account is based. For more information about product attributes and their characteristics, see: Product.

Use

You can create a balance confirmation for one account in a single run or for more than one account in a mass run. You have the option of triggering the balance confirmation output immediately or creating correspondence requests for balance confirmation first, so this can be issued later. As a rule, customers receive balance confirmation once a year, showing the posting date-based account balance. For more information on creating and editing balance confirmation, see Creating Balance Confirmation and Editing Balance Confirmation in the SAP Library.

Once a correspondence request has been created for a balance confirmation, you can display the balance confirmation in a balance confirmation history, and then go from there directly to the archived balance confirmation document. For more information, see the SAP Library under: Displaying the Balance Confirmation History. You can also display a log for the balance confirmation.

Structure

Balance confirmation data in Account Management is grouped as follows (this data is partly master data and partly flow data):

Master and Flow Data

Master data is data required for creating and transferring a balance confirmation. It includes the name of the bank statement recipient and the dispatch address, and specifies whether the recipient is to receive the original statement or a duplicate:

·         General Data

·         Time periods

General Data

To create balance confirmation, you can specify the following details or use the system to calculate them in the General Data group box on the Balance Confirmation tab page of an account:

·         Calculate Date for Mass Run

·         With Interest Information

Time periods

The system displays the Time Periods group box when you activate theCalculate Date for Mass Run indicator. You can enter settings for the periodic calculation of the next date for the mass run.

·        Time periods every X days, weeks, months, years

·        Starting date

·        Working day shift.

If you change these details, the next due date is calculated again for the mass run.

Flow data is the data that changes each time there is a balance confirmation. It is required to ensure that the balance confirmation continues the data of the last confirmation without any gaps.

·         Next run date

·         Number /Year of last balance confirmation

·         Run date of last balance confirmation

Events

You can use the Display and Edit Creation Dates transaction to display the events that the customer has not been informed of yet, and when the next balance confirmation is to be created. You can also delete these entries.

You can schedule new creation dates for the balance confirmation either by using the Display and Edit Creation Dates dialog transaction, or the BankStatement.BalanceConfirmationenAddEvent method. For more information on scheduling by using a BAPI, see the corresponding documentation in the BAPI Explorer.

Methods

In Account Management (FS-AM), you can use one of the following three channels to process objects:

·        Dialog

·        Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)

·        Direct Input (DI)

The following shows the channels to use for calling up the different methods of disbanding an account pool:

Method	Channel
	Dialog	BAPI	DI
Creating a Balance Confirmation	x	x
Displaying and Editing Generation Dates	x	x
Displaying the Balance Confirmation History	x
Start Mass Run	x
Change Flow Data for Balance Confirmation		x
Edit Master Data for Balance Confirmation	x	x	x
Read Master Data for Balance Confirmation	x	x

Dialog

You can call up the following transactions in dialog mode:

Transaction Code	Short Description
F9N30	Generate Balance Confirmation
F9N37	Display and Edit Generation Dates
F9N34	Display Balance Confirmation History
F9N31	Starting a Balance Confirmation Mass Run

Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)

You can call up the following methods using the BAPI Explorer:

Method	Short Description
BankStatement.BalanceConfirmationAddEvent	Schedule Creation Date for Balance Confirmation
BankStatement.BalanceConfirmationChangeDue	Change Flow Data for Balance Confirmation
BankStatement.BalanceConfirmationRemoveEvent	Delete Creation Date for Balance Confirmation
CMAccountAM.BalConfirmChange	Edit Master Data for Balance Confirmation
CMAccountAM.BalConfirmGetDetail	Read Master Data for Balance Confirmation

Direct Input

Direct input has been implemented in the account for the contract element Balance Confirmation. For more information, see the Account section in the SAP Library.

For additional technical information on the contract element Balance Confirmation, see the Technical Documentation button on the initial screen of the account.

Integration

Customizing

There is no special customizing for the balance confirmation.

You can only generate balance confirmation if the following prerequisites have been fulfilled:

·        The account has the contract status Active, Used

·        The account is live

·        The Balance Confirmation feature exists for the account and is not locked.

Correspondence request

For more information on correspondence in Account Management, see the SAP Library under: Correspondence in Account Management.