An object in Accounting used as a clearing account within posting to Accounting.

When posting to Accounting, various situations require the posting data to be split into several documents.

If it is necessary to split documents but a document split account was not set up in the system, posting to Accounting cannot take place. For this reason, you should set up a document split account and assign the account planned for this purpose, even if it does not appear necessary to split documents when the system is introduced.

You assign a document-split account to the relevant symbolic accounts in Payroll Customizing (under Reporting for Posting Payroll Results to Accounting ® Activities in the AC System ® Assign Accounts ® Assign Technical Accounts).

The system splits the document in the following situations:

• The posting data contains posting records with a different posting date or different posting periods.
• The posting data contains posting records with different company codes.
• The posting data does not only contain G/L account postings but also payable/receivable postings.
• Document split control that is stored in the posting variant used requires you to split the documents.
• The size of the posting data makes it necessary to split the documents.

If the system splits documents in one of these situations, the posting items do not always have a balance of zero. If the balance of the posting items for a document is not equal to zero, an item for the relevant posting to the document split account is added to this document in order to clear the balance of this document.