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1823530 - Error - Posting Date Not Permitted Due to Additional Valuation Postings

Symptom

After created a customer invoice or a supplier invoice with a currency other than the default company currency.
Need tp cancel this invoice but the posting does not go through to accounting.

Instead, the cancellation document appears as unposted source document in the Source Documents view of the General Ledger workcenter, displaying the following error message: Posting date MM-DD-YYYY not permitted due to additional valuation postings. The item to be cleared was already valuated on posting date MM-DD-YYYY. Enter a posting date equal or after MM-DD-YYYY.

Or when trying to clear an expense/credit against an invoice, the manual clearing throws an error: Posting date MM-DD-YYYY not permitted due to additional valuation postings. The item to be cleared was already valuated on posting date MM-DD-YYYY. Enter a posting date equal or after MM-DD-YYYY.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

Cancellation invoice scenario:

  1. In the Customer Invoicing/ Supplier Invoicing workcenter navigate to the Invoice Documents/ Invoices and Credit Memos view.
  2. Select the customer invoice to cancel and press Cancel/ Cancel Document.
  3. A cancellation invoice has been created but in the document flow of both documents, noticing that this cancellation posting has not created a journal entry - The posting did not go through to accounting.
  4. To check the invoice navigating to the Closing Cockpit of the General Ledger workcenter and there to the Source Documents view. By default the unposted source documents are displayed here.
  5. To find the cancellation invoice. In the Messages section the following error message is displayed: Posting date MM-DD-YYYY not permitted due to additional valuation postings. The item to be cleared was already valuated on posting date MM-DD-YYYY. Enter a posting date equal or after MM-DD-YYYY.

Manual clearing scenario:

  1. Go to Receivables/customer accounts work center.
  2. Select customer ID and click View.
  3. Select both documents to be cleared and click 'Clear manually'.
  4. Error message is displayed: Posting date MM-DD-YYYY not permitted due to additional valuation postings. The item to be cleared was already valuated on posting date MM-DD-YYYY. Enter a posting date equal or after MM-DD-YYYY.

Cause

This error message appears as already executed the Foreign Currency Remeasurement Run (FCR run) for the period in which the original customer/supplier invoice was posted.
The key date of this run is after the posting date of the original invoice.
Therefore either have to post the invoice to a date on or after the key date of the FCR run (option A) or need to reverse the FCR run to be able to post the cancellation on the posting date of the original invoice (option B).

Resolution

Option A) Post the invoice on or after the key date of the FCR run:

  1. In the General Ledger workcenter navigate to the Closing Cockpit and here to the Source Documents view. By default the unposted source documents are displayed here.
  2. Select the cancellation invoice and press Actions- View Business Transaction.
  3. In the new screen press Post to another period.
  4. In the popup window, maintain an alternate date on or after the key date of the FCR run (mentioned in the error message) and maintain an alternate closing step if you wish.
  5. Press OK and post the invoice.

Option B) Reverse the FCR run and post the invoice to the posting date of the original invoice

B.1. For Customer invoices

  1. In the Receivables workcenter navigate to the Periodic Tasks view and there to Foreign Currency Remeasurement Runs.
  2. Select the run of the period in which the respective customer invoice was posted
  3. Press Reverse.
  4. Now navigate back to the Source Documents view of the General Ledger workcenter.
  5. Select the customer invoice and press Actions – Post Business Transaction.

B.2. For Supplier Invoices

  1. In the Payables workcenter navigate to the Periodic Tasks view and there to Foreign Currency Remeasurement runs.
  2. Select the run of the period in which the respective supplier invoice was posted.
  3. Press Reverse.
  4. Now navigate back to the Source Documents view of the General Ledger workcenter.
  5. Select the Supplier Invoice invoice and press Actions – Post Business Transaction.

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Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions