Transferring Receivables and Payables

With a transfer posting, the system transfers from the old to the new profit centers the balances of all reassigned partial amounts of receivables and payables. If the new profit centers are assigned to a different segment, the transfer is made implicitly to that new segment.

The postings are made directly to the reconciliation accounts. To reduce the number of documents and line items, the system makes the postings in aggregated form.

Vendor Net Procedure

If a payable has been posted using the vendor net procedure, the cash discount clearing amount is also posted to the new profit centers.

Foreign Currency Valuation

In the case of foreign currency valuations using the delta procedure, there is always a balance remaining since the last valuation, and that balance is either increased or decreased with the next foreign currency valuation. However, for reassigned receivables and payables, the increase or decrease is made on the new profit center. For this reason, the foreign currency valuation balance is also transferred to the corresponding accounts (and ledgers, if appropriate).

Note Note

For the special case that you use the view V_FAGL_SPLIT_FL2 in Customizing for document splitting, the following applies:

In this view, you can specify that the profit center and/or segment are not assigned for foreign currency valuations.
This setting is also applied in the reorganization when foreign currency valuation balances are corrected.
You can also specify in this view that, while profit centers and segments are not assigned, cost objects are assigned during the valuation of the payable or receivable (for example, the order on which the original expense was assigned when the receivable or payable was posted). If the offsetting entry for the foreign currency valuation is made to an expense account that is a cost element, the profit center is derived from the cost object in the expense item during valuation.
If, however, document splitting is now also set up so that the profit center or segment is inherited from the expense item to the balance item (adjustment account, such as for receivables) for the document type with which the adjustment is posted, the system proceeds as follows: Regardless of the setting made in the view V_FAGL_SPLIT_FL2, the balance is posted during foreign currency valuation to the profit center or segment that was derived from the cost object (such as an order).

This logic cannot be applied in the reorganization of receivables and payables. The foreign currency valuation balance is not posted to the profit center or segment in accordance with the settings in the view.

Example: If you have selected the segment update setting in the view, the reorganization performs a transfer posting on the segment. If you have not set up any update on the segment, the reorganization does not perform any transfer posting.

End of the note.

Preparations for Consolidation

Partner profit centers and partner segments are not reassigned. When a receivable or payable has been posted with a partner profit center or partner segment, transfer postings are also made to those partner profit centers or partner segments. The Affiliated Company (VBUND) field is also filled with the transfer posting.

Example Example

The following profit centers are affected by the reorganization:

Old Profit Center: PCA
New Profit Center: PCB

Payable (from the perspective of General Ledger Accounting):

Doc.No.	Line Item	Amount	Curr.	PrCtr	Partner PrCtr	Affiliated Comp.
4711	001	40	EUR	PCA	PCZ	DG01

After the transfer posting:

Amount	Curr.	PrCtr	Partner PrCtr	Affiliated Comp.
40–	EUR	PCA	PCZ	DG01
40	EUR	PCB	PCZ	DG01

End of the example.

Repeated Generation

As described in the section Receivables and Payables as First-Level Objects, it is only during generation of object lists for first-level objects that the system analyzes whether or not objects that impart assignments are included in the reorganization. This is to achieve shorter runtimes.

Recommendation

For this reason, we recommend generating object lists for first-level objects every now and again before you close the reorganization plan.

End of the recommendation.

To force execution of the above analysis and thereby prevent receivables and payables from being left out of the reorganization, the system checks - at the very latest when transferring the last receivable or payable - whether an object list needs to be generated again on the first level.

Result of the transfer posting: Grouped View for Invoice-Related Items

For the object types Receivables and Payables, invoice-related items (partial payments, residual items, and so on) are reassigned together. With the standard settings, the grouped view is available in the Transfer Posting area on the Object List tab page. This view groups together invoice-related items in the columns Grouping by Invoice Reference and Leading Entry; here, the leading entry “X” is the entry that was always shown in the object lists (this is generally the original invoice). The nonleading entries are the invoice-related items that could not be displayed using the Detail pushbutton in the object list.