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Separate Accounting Document for Purchase Account Postings

In this step, you define for each valuation area whether the system should create two separate FI documents for stock and purchase account postings or for invoice and purchase account postings (in Logistics Invoice Verification only).

Requirements

Note: You can only use two documents if the purchase account is posted at the receipt value, otherwise the difference between the GR/IR clearing account and the purchase account would result in a balance not equal to zero.

Standard Settings

In the SAP Standard configuration, only one accounting document is created.

Activities

1. Activate the separate accounting document in the required valuation areas.
2. Define a new document type for the second accounting document. The document type must be different from the document type for goods receipts (GR, WN) and invoice receipts (IR). Assign a number range to the document.
3. Check the number assignment for the number range.
4. Assign the new document type to Inventory Management transactions.
This includes all transactions that generate goods movements with reference to purchase orders, that is, MB01, MB04, MB0A and Purchasing transactions (beginning in ME* and ML*). You must also assign the new document type for automatic movements (for example, movements from Kanban and Quality Management).
5. Assign the new document type to Logistics Invoice Verification transactions.