Displaying Payment History (SAP Library - FI Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable)

Displaying Payment History

Use

You wish to display payment history evaluations. The display options are explained using the "country" grouping criterion at "group" level.

Features

Initial Screen for Payment History

On the initial screen for payment history, the system displays the following values in lists per country or country key:

Days in arrears, medium-term

Days in arrears, short-term

Days in arrears of the items open on the evaluation key date

Displaying Further Evaluations

From the initial screen, you can access the following evaluations:

You can display how the system calculates the days in arrears for individual countries. These values are displayed as formulas explaining how the system calculates the days in arrears, medium-term and short-term, as well as the days in arrears of open items

To do so, proceed as follows:

Place the cursor on a country.

Select Edit ® Days in arrears.

The system displays a dialog box explaining how it calculates the days in arrears for country you selected.

You can scroll back and forth in the country list on the initial screen via Next feature or Previous feature.

You can display the following values for the customers of a certain country:

Days in arrears, medium-term
Days in arrears, short-term
Days in arrears of open items
Interest calculation numerator, medium-term
Interest calculation numerator, short-term
Interest calculation numerator of the open items

To do so, proceed as follows:

Place the cursor on a customer.

Choose Edit ® Top n customers .

In the following menu option, you can list your customers in descending order according to the above-mentioned values. You can, for example, list the customers with the most days in arrears, medium-term, or with the largest interest calculation numerators, short-term. When displaying the values, the system highlights the totals column by which the customer list is sorted.

From this drilldown list, you have two additional evaluation options:

You can display a line item analysis for each customer.

To do so, proceed as follows:

Place the cursor on a customer.

Select Edit ® Line item analysis.

You can display how the system calculates the days in arrears for each customer. The values are displayed as formulas explaining the calculation.

To do so, proceed as follows:

Place the cursor on a customer.

Select Edit ® Days in arrears.

The system displays a dialog box explaining how it calculated the days in arrears for the customer you selected.

You can scroll back and forth in the customer list via Next customer or Previous customer.