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Procedure documentation Reversing a Bill of Exchange Payable  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

You have cleared open items with the bill of exchange payment. If you want to reverse the bill of exchange payment, you must reverse the posting. The system posts a new payable to the vendor.

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In the above case, the following postings have already been made:

  1. You have cleared open items with the bill of exchange payment.
  2. The following postings are now necessary:

  3. You reverse your bill of exchange payment.
  4. The system posts a new payable to the vendor.

To reverse the bill of exchange payment, you must make the following steps in the system:

  1. Choose Document entry ® Other ® Intern.transf.psting ® With clearing.
  2. The system now displays the Post with Clearing: Header data screen.

  3. Enter the required data for the document header and select the clearing procedure Transfer posting with clearing. To post the new payable, enter the posting key for a vendor credit posting (32 in the standard system, for example) and the vendor's account number in the field First line item at the bottom of the screen. Choose Enter.
  4. The Post with Clearing: Create vendor Item screen is now displayed for entering the new payable.

  5. Enter the amount of the bill of exchange payment.
  6. This amount is posted to the vendor account as a new payable. The system enters the document date as the baseline date for payment, since the payable is generally due net immediately.

  7. Select Edit Choose open items.
  8. The system now displays the selection screen for open items.

  9. Enter the number of the vendor account and the special G/L indicator for bills of exchange. Select Goto ® Open items.
  10. The screen that is now displayed is for selecting open items.

  11. Select the open items of bills of exchange that you want to reverse.
  12. Choose Document ® Post.

The system clears the bill payable and posts a new payable to the vendor account. The special G/L account for bills of exchange payable is also cleared.