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 Defining Cash Accounts

Use

The Customer Payment Analysis and Vendor Payment Analysis reports display invoices and payments. For the purposes of the reports, a payment is any accounting document that contain a cash account item.

For this reason, define all cash accounts as follows.

Procedure

  1. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Accounting Next navigation step Financial Accounting Next navigation step General Ledger Next navigation step Master Records Next navigation step Individual Processing Next navigation step Centrally End of the navigation path .

  2. Enter the G/L account number and the company code, and choose with the quick info text Change .

  3. On the Create/Bank/Interest tab, select Relevant to Cash Flow .

  4. Save the G/L account.

Example

You have a checking account with the Bank of Moscow. Since this account is a cash account, you define it as such in the system, following the procedure above.

Assume the Volga Stationery Company sends you a payment order for RUB50,000. You post the payment as follows:

Because you have defined the checking account with the Bank of Moscow as a cash account, the Vendor Payment Analysis report is able to identify the accounting document as a payment.