When you post a document, the balance at business area level is not automatically zero.

In the standard system, you can balance each business area to zero by means of adjustment postings.

You can use the balance sheet adjustment to do this. When you post a document, the system checks the business area balance and if this is not zero it marks this document for the balance sheet adjustment. Program SAPF180A reads the marked documents, calculates the adjustment postings required, 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 adjustment postings are posted to a clearing account. This account fulfills the function of a receivable or payable from a business area against all other business areas.

• The balance sheet adjustment generates summarized transfer postings to the clearing account.

• 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.