ProcedureDefining Cash Accounts

 

The Customer Payment Analysis and Vendor Payment Analysis reports display invoices and payments. For the purposes of the reports, a payment is any accounting document that contain a cash account item. For this reason, define all cash accounts as follows.

Procedure

  1. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose   Accounting · Financial Accounting · General Ledger · Master Records · Individual Processing · Centrally.

  2. Enter the G/L account number and the company code, and choose Change.

  3. On the Create/Bank/Interest tab, select Relevant to Cash Flow.

  4. Save the G/L account.

Example

You have a checking account with the Bank of Moscow. Since this account is a cash account, you define it as such in the system, following the procedure above.

Assume the Volga Stationery Company sends you a payment order for RUB 50,000. You post the payment as follows:

Payment Order

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Because you have defined the checking account with the Bank of Moscow as a cash account, the Vendor Payment Analysis report identifies the accounting document as a payment.