Creating Payment Items (Special) 

Use

In addition to creating payment items on the current posting date, you can also create payment items in former periods (backdated in previous settlement periods).

This allows you to depict transactions whose posting date is in the past.

Procedure

Creating Backdated Payment Items

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       1.      Choose Account Management ® Payment Item ® Create (Special) ® Backdated.

       2.      Specify the transaction type with which the item is to be updated, and the bank area and account number of the respective account.

       3.      On the item entry screen specify the posting date and the value date of the posting, and the posting amount. In addition, you can enter payment notes and view the details about the transaction and the references (day book).

Result

You have successfully created a payment item in the past.

On further processing, see also: Creating Payment Items

The payment item is parked with the corresponding control status if you have activated the (amount-dependent) principle of dual control for the processing of payment items in Customizing for BCA. You set up dual control for payment item processing by choosing Authorization Management ® Amount-Dependent Authorizations ® Maintain Amount Limit/Principle of Dual Control for Payment Item. Dual control applies to the following activities related to a payment item:

§         Create and change

§         Post, transfer post, and force post

§         Reverse and return

Another user with appropriate authorization must then release the payment item. To release the payment item, choose Account Management ® Payment Item ® Release. The system lists all the items that have not yet been released. Go to the detail view of a payment item and choose Release.