You carry out periodic accrual postings in an accrual run. This posts the accruals calculated for a specific key date and creates the corresponding document.
Caution
You always have to start the accrual run manually for a specific key date.
During an accrual run, the system performs the following steps:
It creates Accrual Engine documents
It transfers these Accrual Engine documents to
Accounting
This leads to follow-up documents being created in
Accounting
You can influence how the Accrual Engine document is transferred to
Accounting
in a number of different ways.
Before the documents are transferred to
Accounting
, a temporary two-line Accounting document is created from the Accrual Engine document. You can summarize several of these two-line Accounting documents prior to transferring them. The summarization setting is in Customizing for
Manual Accruals
, under
.
You can change the Accounting document before or after summarization or add further document lines. Two Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) are provided for this purpose. The settings are in Customizing for
Manual Accruals
, under
.
You can use the following functions to perform periodic accrual runs:
You can start an accrual run. When you do this, the Accrual Engine documents are automatically transferred to
Accounting
.
You can reverse a completed accrual run together with its postings. However, you can only reverse accrual runs in their entirety.
Transfer Accrual Engine Documents Manually
If the transfer of Accrual Engine documents to
Accounting
terminates because of errors, you can transfer the documents to
Accounting
manually.