Stop Accounting 

Use

You can use this function to stop the accounting for a lease, temporarily and effective immediately, when unforeseen situations such as insolvency, destruction due to natural catastrophe or accident, or disputes occur. When you execute this change process, the accounting postings in the ERP system are stopped. Depending on your Customizing settings, depreciation, asset accounting, and revenue recognition may or may not be continued.

You execute this change process in the original document, which means that no new document is generated. The change process does not affect pricing.

You can either execute the change process at header or item level. If you execute the process at header level, all the items in the contract document are affected. If you execute it at item level, only individual contract items are affected. The system sets the status Stop Accounting at the financing item level in both cases.

In SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) you use the process STAH to stop accounting at both header and item level. The change processes STAH and STAI (change process at item level) are created and assigned in the Lease Accounting Engine (LAE, SAP ERP).

Prerequisites

You have an active lease with the status Released.

Activities

If the reason why you executed the change process no longer applies, you can reset stop accounting (USAH). To do so, you execute the appropriate change process in the same document. In this case, the system restarts accounting in the ERP system. The system deactivates the Stop Billing status for the financing items.

You can combine the change processes Stop Accounting and Reset Stop Accounting at header and item level in one document.

When you stop accounting at header level, this affects the entire contract. If a contract contains several financing items, accounting is stopped for all of them. If you then want to resume accounting only for one or several of the financing items, you execute the change process Reset Stop Accounting at item level.

Example

Contract 0001 has a term of six months. Three months after contract inception, you have to stop accounting due to a dispute with the lessee. As soon as the problems have been resolved, you can execute the appropriate change process to resume accounting.