Periodic Accrual Runs 

Use

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.

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

Prerequisites

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 Accrual Posting → Posting Control.

·        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 Accrual Posting → Document Change Using BAdI.

Features

You can use the following functions to perform periodic accrual runs:

·        Carry Out Accrual Run

You can start an accrual run. When you do this, the Accrual Engine documents are automatically transferred to Accounting.

·        Reverse Accrual Run

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.