New Functions
for Bills of Exchange 
Use
Failed payments by bill of exchange (transaction FBZG)
You access this function from the SAP Easy Access screen via Accounting -> Financial Accounting -> Banks -> Incomings -> Failed Bills of Exchange.
You can use this function to process failed bills of exchange. When a bounced bill of exchange is posted, a new receivable (a new open item) is created in the customer's account.
- When posting a failed bill of exchange, you can now specify a payment method in addition to the terms of payment. If you do not enter a payment method, the system determines the payment method from the specified terms of payment.
- You can now specify the posting date for posting the new open item. Until now , the system automatically selected the system date for posting.
- When posting a failed bill of exchange, you can now specify whether the bank charges are to be posted to an expense account or to a customer account. Until now it was only possible to post the charges to a customer account.
Bill of exchange payment (transaction F-36)
You access this function from the SAP Easy Access screen via Accounting -> Financial Accounting -> Accounts Receivable -> Document entry -> Bill of exchange -> Payment .
When entering bills of exchange, until
now, charges and tax amounts could be calculated and then summarized
and posted to the customer as an open item. The posting specifications are as
follows:
Debits Credits
09W Customer 100
15 Customer 100
03 Customer 10
50 Discount charges 10
You can now process the bill
of exchange so that the costs incurred are added directly to the amount of the
original receivable, that is, you create a bill of exchange for the amount
including these costs. The posting specifications are as follows:
Debits Credits
09W Customer 110
15 Customer 100
03 Customer 10
50 Discount charges 10
If you wish to post according to these posting specifications, create the bill of exchange terms of payment BOEF and enter these terms in the company code data in the customer master record on the tab Payment transactions in the field B/e charges payt term.