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 Editing Balance Confirmation

Use

On the Balance Confirmation tab page, you specify whether the system is to generate the balance confirmation as a periodic task, and what time periods are to be used. You also specify whether the balance confirmation is to contain interest information (such as credit, debit, or overdraft interest). For more information about displaying and editing individual generation dates, see: Displaying and Editing Generation Dates in the SAP Library.

Prerequisites

  • Balance confirmation is activated as a featurefor the product upon which the account is based. You have made the relevant settings in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Start of the navigation path Product Management Next navigation step Product Definition Next navigation step Account Products Next navigation step Create Account Product End of the navigation path or Change Account Product. When you create an account, you need to set up its product so that the contract can be saved without the need for any additional settings. It contains at least the calculation specification data defined in the product for calculating the key run dates if you set the Periodic indicator.

  • You have neither deactivated nor locked the Balance Confirmation feature in the account contract. If there is a lock or deactivation, you need to change this under Create/Change Account. For more information about features, see Editing Features .

  • The Correspondence Recipient Management feature must be active for the corresponding account contract. There must be at least one original correspondence recipient or general alternative correspondence recipient entered there.

Procedure

  1. You can make the following specifications in the General Data group box:

    • Calculate Date for Mass Run

      Set this indicator if the key date is to be set automatically for the next balance confirmation to be created in the mass run. The system then displays the Time Periods area where you need to enter the data for the automatic calculation of the key date. For more information about the required data, see the Time Periods section below.

    • Time Periods

      In the Time Periods area you can enter settings for the calculation method for the next date of the mass run. If you change the following details, the next due date is recalculated for the mass run.

      • Period Factor

      • Starting date

      • Working Day Shift

    • With Interest Information

      Set this indicator if you require interest information on the balance confirmation that is to be generated.

  2. Choose Save .

    Note Note

    Correspondence Recipient Management ( Correspondence Recipient Tab Page)

    To specify in more detail to whom, how, and in what form a balance confirmation is to be dispatched, enter the relevant settings on the Correspondence Recipient tab page in correspondence recipient management. For more information about correspondence recipient management , see the SAP Library, under Correspondence Recipient Management .

    End of the note.

Result

The system saves the data for the balance confirmation according to your specifications. If your entries are subject to release, another user with release authorization may need to release them before they can take effect. For more information, see: Release Object CN (Contract) in the SAP Library.