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Use this tab to specify purchasing information for G/L account determination.

To access this tab, choose   Administration   Setup   Financials   G/L Account Determination   Purchasing  .

General Subtab
Accounts Payable

Opens the Control Accounts – Accounts Payable window, in which you can set the controlling account for outgoing payments.

Permit Change of Control Accts

Select if you want to assign different control accounts to different vendors.

You assign control accounts to each vendor in the Business Partner Master Data window. If you do not select this option, the control accounts defined in the Control Accounts – Accounts Payable window are used for all vendors.

Domestic Accounts Payable, Foreign Accounts Payable, EU Accounts Payable

Define the respective accounts for posting purchases to domestic, EU, or other foreign vendors.

SAP Business One posts all purchases from vendors to this collective account, making your current total purchases available at any time.

Realized Exchange Diff. Gain, Realized Exchange Diff. Loss

Select accounts to use as default accounts for journal entries created to reflect loss and gain caused by exchange rate differences in purchase transactions.

Realized Conversion Diff. Gain, Realized Conversion Diff. Loss

Select accounts to use as default accounts for journal entries created to reflect loss and gain caused by conversion differences in purchase transactions.

Note Note

The fields are available only if the system currency is different from the local currency.

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Bank Transfer

Define a default account to use when paying by bank transfer.

Cash Discount

Define an account to use as default when a cash discount is used.

Cash Discount Clearing

Define an account to use as the clearing account when a cash discount is used.

Expense Account, Expense Account - Foreign, Expense Account - EU

Define accounts to use as default expense accounts:

  • For expenses incurred in domestic purchase transactions

  • In a purchase transaction involving a foreign vendor

  • In a purchase transaction involving a vendor from the European Union

  • For foreign expenses

Purchase Credit Account

Select a control account to use as the default when a credit transaction for purchasing is created, for example, an A/P credit memo.

Purchase Credit Account - Foreign

Select a control account to be used as the default when a credit transaction for purchasing is created for foreign vendors.

Purchase Credit Account - EU

Select a control account to use as the default when a credit transaction for purchasing is created for vendors from the European Union.

Overpayment A/P Account, Underpayment A/P Account

Define these accounts if you want SAP Business One to handle cases in which the outgoing payment amount is slightly different from the A/P invoice(s) amount paid.

SAP Business One compares the amount paid to the amount due, and if the difference is less than the amount defined in the Outgoing Amt Diff. Allowed or Outgoing % Diff. Allowed field of the Currencies - Setup window under   Administration   Setup   Financials   Currencies  , the application automatically creates the appropriate transaction.

Down Payment Clearing Account

Select a G/L account to use as the default clearing account when adding an A/P down payment invoice. You cannot select G/L accounts defined as control accounts.

Note Note

For China, Japan, and Korea, this field is not available for users using a new database.

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Variance Account-Expense and Inventory Acct

Define a variance G/L account for the clearing journal entries generated by A/P credit memos which are based on A/P invoices with a change in price or freight charges.

Country-Specific Field: Japan & Korea
Other Payable

Optionally, specify other payable accounts.

Country-Specific Fields: Mexico & Chile
Default Tax Code (New Vendors)

Select a tax code to use as the default tax code when creating a new vendor. Only valid A/P tax codes are available in this field.

Default VATW Code

Select the withholding tax code to use as the default withholding VAT tax code for new vendors.

Default ITW Code

Select the withholding income tax code to use as the default for new vendors who are marked as liable to withholding tax

Country-Specific Fields: Canada, USA & Brazil
Payments Advances

Specify a default account to be used when posting A/P down payment invoices. You cannot select G/L accounts marked as Control Account in the chart of accounts.

Note Note

In Brazil localization, you do not need to specify the CFOP field for down payment invoices.

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Tax Tab
Name

Specify a name for each index.

Withholding Tax

The company maintains withholding tax for purchasing.

Default Withholding Tax Code

Define the withholding tax code to use as the default for new vendors. This field appears only if Withholding Tax is selected.

Purchases Tax Group (Items), Purchases Tax Group (Services)

Define a default tax group to use when creating a purchasing transaction of items or services

Down Payment Tax Offset Acct

Select a default G/L account to use when creating an outgoing payment based on an A/P down payment request.

Note Note

This field is not available for China, Japan and Korea.

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Country-Specific Fields: India
Capital Goods On Hold Percentage

When you post CENVAT for capital goods in an A/P invoice, the amount of set percentage is posted into an On Hold account. The default value for this field is 50.

Capital Goods On Hold Account

The CENVAT in an On Hold account is posted separately by tax type. The material type is Capital Goods by default and is not editable.

Note Note

  • This field can be blank only if Capital Goods On Hold Percentage is zero.

  • You cannot delete the account once it has involved a transaction.

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