Prerequisites

In the IMG activity Activate Variant for Budgetary Ledger (see Customizing the Budgetary Ledger ), you must specify whether negative postings are permissible for your organization. If you have specified that negative postings are possible, you change the way the transaction figures for this account are updated. Specifically, when you make a debit posting, the credit side of the account is reduced, when you make a credit posting, the debit side of the account is reduced.

Postings of Documents withNormalSequence

In this kind of posting, the “normal order” of fields in the document is adhered to. This is the usual sequence ofbudgetary ledger document lines, since it starts with the G/L account that refers to the starting point and ends with the G/L account of the final status.

In the example below, the budgetary ledger has been customized using the G/L account number 10 for available budget and G/L account number 20 for released budget .

Next a budget supplement of 100 Euros is posted. According to the BL customizing, the result will be the following:

As you can see, G/L account number 10 has received a debit posting.

Postings with a Reversed Order of Documents

In this kind of posting, the order of posting is reversed. This is the case for budget returns, which reverse the posting procedure.

Considering the same G/L accounts as before, a budget return is now posted with the following results:

As can be seen from the changed G/L account numbers, they are reversed due to the return posting involved.