Posting Retroactive Accounting Data (SAP Library

Posting Retroactive Accounting Data

Use

When posting retroactive accounting data, the posting run for the previous payroll result is reversed (posting with reversed sign) and the new payroll result is posted for the payroll periods accounted retroactively.

The summarization of posting information performed in posting to Accounting has the following effect when posting retroactive accounting data:

If only the amount changes, the difference is posted.
If the account assignment objects also change, the amount in the old account assignment objects is cancelled and posted to the new ones.

At the time of posting, Financial Accounting has usually closed the previous posting periods. For this reason, the retroactive accounting data is posted in the posting period that belongs to the current payroll period (with the exception of posting to special periods).

If, at the time of posting retroactive data, the previous payroll result for the retroactively accounted period was already posted in Accounting, the system does not evaluate this payroll result a second time using Customizing to reverse the posting. Instead, the system evaluates the posting run that was created for this payroll result. In the process it determines

Which wage types were posted

Which symbolic accounts were used
With which account assignment type the posting took place
With which Employee grouping for the account determination this posting took place
Which entries from the payroll results tables (for example, table WPBP, C0, C1) were evaluated

The system reverses the posting using this information.

See also:

Example: Posting Retroactive Accounting Data

Recalculation Differences

Retroactive Accounting