External Posting

For an expense that was posted in FI and that has an account assignment for cost center EXAMPLE 1, the system sets the debit/credit indicator BEKNZ to S. This value is used for virtual characteristic BELKZ.

Reversal in FI

If you reverse the posting in example 1, the system creates an additional CO posting record with debit/credit indicator BEKNZ = H.

In this example, no costs were incurred by the cost center. The SAP system does not show a credit or a debit for the cost center in the reports when using BELKZ. The postings balance to zero. If, however, you use BEKNZ, the system displays a debit of 100 USD and a credit of 100 USD in the report.

Reposting

If the posting in example 1 was assigned to the wrong cost center and you repost this amount with an adjustment posting to debit cost center EXAMPLE2, you get the following result:

Here too, no debit is shown if you use BELKZ, since the system treats a reposting in a manner similar to a reversal used to make an adjustment to an incorrect primary posting.

Activity Allocation

If you allocate the amount in example 1 using an activity allocation with order 12345678, you obtain the following values:

In this example (secondary posting), there is no difference between using BELKZ and BEKNZ. Cost center EXAMPLE1 is marked by BELKZ = H as the sender, the order correspondingly by BEKNZ = S as the receiver. In either case, the system displays the primary posting to cost center EXAMPLE1 and the posting record that debits this cost center separately in the report.

Order settlement

If you settle the order from example 4 with cost center EXAMPLE2, the system updates the following data:

To obtain a correct view of the sender/receiver relationships in self-defined reports that arrange the line items per credit/debit indicator, you should use BELKZ as you would in standard reports. If you want a debit/credit view as in FI, you can use BEKNZ.