Generating Line Items Automatically

Depending on your system’s configuration, you can have the system generate and post line items automatically.

Which line items are generated depends on which business transactions you have entered:

The following table gives you an overview of the different business transactions for which line items can be generated automatically.

Business transaction	Line items
Entering a customer or vendor invoice	Tax on sales/purchases (output tax when posting a customer invoice, input tax when posting a vendor invoice) Payables and receivables between company codes (when posting cross-company code transactions)
Posting a customer or vendor payment and clearing open items	Cash discount (paid and received when posting payments) Backdated tax calculation for tax on sales/purchases (after cash discount deduction) Gains and losses from exchange rate differences (between invoice and payment) Unauthorized deduction of cash discount (when a payment is slightly different to the amount due) Residual items Bank charges
Entering special G/L transactions	Bill of exchange charges Tax adjustment for a down payment