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2221341 - Customer Invoice for the Sale of a Fixed Asset cannot be posted: Unposted Source Document Error

Symptom

You want to post an invoice for the sale of a fixed asset. But although the Account Determination for Fixed Asset Sale/Scrapping is maintained, the posting of the invoice is not possible. Instead the document remains as Unposted Source Document in the Source Documents view at the General Ledger work center and the system issues one of the following error messages:

Account determination is missing for item type Revenues from Sale of Fixed Assets (on Gain). Specify account determination in chart of accounts XYZ: ABC Chart of Accounts (DEF) and account determination profile <HGI>. Column Path Fixed Assets->Asset Sale/Scrapping->Revenue from Sale of ..., Position Type Revenues from Sale of Fixed Assets (on Gain).

Account determination is missing for item type Revenues from Sale of Fixed Assets (on Loss). Specify account determination in chart of accounts XYZ: ABC Chart of Accounts (DEF) and account determination profile <HGI>. Column Path Fixed Assets->Asset Sale/Scrapping->Revenue from Sale of ..., Position Type Revenues from Sale of Fixed Assets (on Loss).

XYZ represents the ID of the chart of accounts.
ABC represents the country of the chart of accounts.
DEF represents the name of the chart of accounts.
HGI represents the ID of the account determination profile.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Under Closing Cockpit choose the Source Documents subview.
  3. Show Unposted Source Documents and choose Go.

You find a source document type Customer Invoice for which one of the above mentioned error messages occurs.
 
Note: For this invoice you find probably also open tasks with a similar message at the Closing-Relevant Tasks subview and at the Work view. 

Cause

The particular account determination group relevant for this source document is missing in the account determination.

Resolution

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Under Closing Cockpit choose the Source Documents subview.
  3. Show Unposted Source Documents and find the relevant document.
  4. Choose Go.
  5. Select the source document ID.
  6. Select the General tab. Note: If an invoice has more than one items and different product IDs, repeat the following steps for each product ID.
  7. Copy the product ID which is visible under Items.
  8. Now go to the Fixed Asset work center.
  9. In the Fixed Asset view open the Advanced View.
  10. Choose Personalize and then This Screen.
  11. Ensure that the field Account Determination Group is marked as Visible under section Untitled Table.
  12. If appropriate, choose Save and close the Personalize menu
  13. Enter the copied product ID into the Individual Material ID field.
  14. Choose the Go button.
  15. Copy the relevant account determination group ID which is visible at the column Account Determ. Group.
  16. Now go to the Business Configuration work center.
  17. Go to the Implementation Projects view and choose Open Activity List.
  18. Select the Fine-Tune tab.
  19. Find and open the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination.
  20. Under the Account Determination section select Fixed Asset.
  21. Select the tab Fixed Asset Sale/Scrapping.
  22. If you don’t find the copied account Determination group in the column Account Determination Group for Fixed Assets, choose Add Row.
  23. Enter the copied account Determination group ID in the column Account Determination Group for Fixed Assets and assign appropriate G/L accounts in the fields of the other columns.
    Choose Save and close.

Now the posting of the invoice is possible.

Keywords

KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To

Product

SAP BUSINESS BYDESIGN 1705