Central object in posting to Accounting, which contains all the information transferred when posting to Accounting. Posting documents are created in the step Create posting run. All posting documents that are created as a result of creating a posting run are grouped together to one unit in this posting run.

Each posting document is given a clear number when it is created. During posting to Accounting, the posting document takes on different statuses, which provide information on which activities were performed with reference to the posting document.

The Accounting components use the posting document as the original document for creating other documents. These accounting documents contain a link to the posting document on which they are based.

Posting documents always consist of document header and document lines.

The document header contains information on

• Document number
• Company codes
• Posting date
• Document date

The document header contains information on

• Account number
• Account assignment objects (for example, cost center)
• Amount
• Currency

The system automatically creates a status history for posting documents, to log changes with the date, time and user responsible.