Performing the Posting 

Purpose

Posting to Accounting includes the evaluation of the payroll results, the creation of summarized documents and posting them in the Accounting components.

The documents created in posting to Accounting contain summarized information. However, provided you have authorization, you can trace back which information (from the payroll results) the posting documents are based on for a specific personnel number.

If documents have been posted with an incorrect posting date, you can also reverse a posting run.

You can also archive the data created in posting to Accounting. For more information, see Archiving Posting Documents (PY-XX-DT) and Archiving Index Files (PY-XX-DT).

Prerequisites

You have successfully run payroll.

Process Flow

When posting to Accounting, you carry out the following activities:

  1. Simulating a Posting Run
  2. Creating A Posting Run
  3. Checking a Posting Run
  4. Checking the Posting Documents
  5. Releasing Posting Documents
  6. Posting Posting Documents
  7. Checking Accounting Documents
  8. Checking the Completeness of the Postings
  9. Subsequent Activities in Financial Accounting

Result

You have posted the personnel expenses and payables to the accounts and account assignment objects in the Accounting components.