Document Type 

Definition

This classifies the posting data with various attributes.

You can use document types to assign certain properties to consolidation entries, for example, properties for updating the database and processing currencies.

Structure

A document type specifies the following attributes required for posting journal entries, translating foreign currency, and evaluating data:

Posting Level

See the section Posting Levels for Classifying Journal Entries.

Balance Check

You can determine how balances are checked when posting to statistical items:

·       Error message if balance not equal to zero

·       Warning message if balance not equal to zero

·       No balance check

When one or more balance sheet or income statement items are posted, an error message is always displayed – regardless of which balance check option you have chosen.

Business Application

You can choose one of the following options:

·       Elimination of investment income (for postings with posting level 20)

·       Consolidation of investments (for postings with posting level 30)

·       Other

Automatic or Manual Posting

You need to specify whether journal entries are posted automatically or manually.

Key Figures to be Posted

You can select the following key figures to be posted: transaction currency, local currency, group currency, and/or quantity.

See the section Key Figures to be Posted.

Inversion

You determine whether an automatic document inversion is posted in the subsequent period of consolidation. In this case, a document that has been posted in a given consolidation period is automatically inverted by the system in the next consolidation period. This occurs as soon as processing is begun in the subsequent consolidation period.

If the given document is reversed before the begin of processing of the next consolidation period, that document is no longer inverted.

Two settings are available for documents that are posted in the last consolidation period of a fiscal year:

·       If these documents are to be inverted, the inversion takes place in the first consolidation period of the following fiscal year.

·       You can specify that these documents are not to be inverted.

For example, you may want to automatically invert documents that have been posted in elimination of interunit payables/receivables – even across fiscal year boundaries.

You also may want to automatically invert documents that have been posted in elimination of interunit revenue/expense. Since IU revenue/expense postings only affect the income statement, these are not inverted beyond a fiscal year.

See the section Automatic Inversion Prior Periods.

Number Range

See the section Number Range.

Clearing Items

See the section Fin. Stmt Imbalances, Deferred Taxes, CU Balancing Adjustments and the sections after that.

Posting of Deferred Income Taxes

See the section Deferred Taxes.

Method Assignments for Validation

See the section Validation of Manually-Created Documents.

Control of Subassignments for Manual Postings

See the section Fixing or Hiding of Subassignments.

Integration

You can use a particular document type in one task only (with a given version, fiscal year, and so on).

For information on the relationship between tasks and document types, see also the section about tasks.