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 Transfer from Bank Data Storage

Purpose

Transfer of data from electronic account statements using the bank data storage of the component Bank Accounting (FI-BL).

Prerequisites

You have made the system settings for the electronic account statement in the Implementation Guide for Financial Accounting under Start of the navigation path Bank Accounting Next navigation step Business Transactions Next navigation step Payment Transactions End of the navigation path .

Define and classify the external transaction codes of the electronic account statement that you want to transfer to FI-CA as Payment or Return in the Implementation Guide for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Transactions Next navigation step Payments Next navigation step Processing Incoming/Outgoing Payments End of the navigation path .

Process Flow

The electronic account statements are processed using the Bank Accounting (FI-BL) component of Financial Accounting as follows:

  1. Call electronic account statement from house bank.

  2. If the data is not available in MultiCash format, convert the data to MultiCash format using one of the standard programs provided by SAP or a customer-defined program.

    You can import data in MultiCash format into the bank data storage immediately; SAP provides formatting programs for numerous other formats.

    For the SWIFT format SAP certifies the SWIFT MT940 interface (FI-SBS). Certified banks or software providers provide files in SWIFT MT940.

  3. Provide the data in a file system or PC drive.

  4. Import the data, interpret the data, and save the information in the bank data storage of the component Bank Accounting (FI-BL) with report RFEBKA00.

    The systems performs a posting of the form bank to bank clearing account if you have specified this in Customizing.

  5. Select payments, returns, payment orders, and check deposits from the bank data storage and enter them in the relevant lots using transaction FPB7.

To display the account statement data held in the bank data storage, from the SAP menu choose Start of the navigation path Accounting Next navigation step Financial Accounting Next navigation step Banks Next navigation step Incoming Next navigation step Account Statement Next navigation step Display End of the navigation path .

For more information about the electronic account statement, see the documentation for Financial Accounting under Start of the navigation path Bank Accounting (FI-BL) Next navigation step Electronic Account Statement End of the navigation path (FI-BL). See also the documentation for report RFEBKA00 and transaction FPB7.