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Background documentation Posting Procedure for Bills of Exchange Payable  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

The following events are documented in FI for bills of exchange payable:

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  1. Payment by Bill of Exchange
    You pay an invoice with a bill of exchange. As a result, the payable is cleared; A bill of exchange payable is created.
  2. Bill of Exchange Charges Statement
    Your vendor sends you a bill of exchange charges statement. You post the invoice in the same way as for other invoices.
  3. Payment of a Bill of Exchange
    Your bank pays the bill of exchange by debiting the amount from your account. You post the bank debit entry and cancel the bill of exchange payable and the bill of exchange liability.

In the following, the posting procedure for the bill of exchange payable is described in an example and the precautions that are to be taken to do this in the system are explained.

See also:

Payment by Bill of Exchange

Bill of Exchange Charges Statement

Paying the Bill of Exchange