For balance sheet accounts, you can make system configuration settings to specify whether the business area is a required entry when posting to these accounts. It may, for example, be necessary to not enter a business area if the financial statement item has to be assigned to several business areas but the original item should not be split up.

In the standard system you can make transfer postings to the business area where the transaction originated for the following balance sheet accounts:

• Receivables

• Payables

• Cash discount clearing

• Taxes

You can use the balance sheet adjustment to do this. When you post a document, the system checks it and, if appropriate, marks it for the balance sheet adjustment. Program SAPF180A reads the marked documents, calculates the necessary adjustment postings, and updates these in its own database tables. A second program, SAPF180, reads the adjustment posting tables and on this basis posts the accounting documents required.

• The balance sheet adjustment generates summarized transfer postings for each of the categories in question.

• You can run a balance sheet adjustment as often as you require.

• You cannot however run the balance sheet adjustment without first activating the business area balance sheets for the company code in question.

• You can display the calculated adjustment postings for each individual document from the document display screen.