Updating Distribution Rules in Accounting Documents and Manual Journal Entries
An accounting document is a logistics document recording a business transaction that generates journal entries, that is, postings to accounts.
If you add accounting documents or manual journal entries to SAP Business One, transaction amounts are posted to various cost centers according to the distribution rules defined for the G/L accounts.
At times, you may want to use a different distribution rule for a transaction. For example, if you have some cleaning work done that also involves renovation, you might want to post the expenses not to your usual cleaning expense account, but to a different account. In such a case, you need to change the distribution rule specified in the accounting document or manual journal entry.
Procedure
On the
Table Format
tab of theForm Settings
window for the accounting document or manual journal entry, select theVisible
andActive
checkboxes for theDistr. Rule
column.
NoteIf you selected the
In Separate Columns
radio button on theCost Accounting
tab of theGeneral Settings
window in
Administration
System Initialization
General Settings
, select the two checkboxes for the XXX
column, whereXXX
is the description of active dimensions.End of the note.The column appears on the
Contents
tab of the accounting document or in theJournal Entry
window.In the
Distr. Rule
orXXX
field of the row for which you want to change the distribution rule, specify a different distribution rule.To save your changes, choose the
Update
button.