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2330074 - Unexpected Debit Entry Posting in Customer Invoice

Symptom

In the journal entry resulting from a posted customer invoice XYZ - a some small decimal value of the amount posted as Revenue also shows in Debit for the same account.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to General Ledger work center.
  2. Journal Entries view and find the Customer Invoice XYZ.
  3. Click on the Journal Entry ID 001.

Sample Posting:

Accounts Receivable Debit 954.00 INR

Service Tax Payable Credit 4.15 INR

Revenue Credit  950.00 INR

Revenue Debit 0.15 INR

Cause

In India, its a business requirement that all documents should either end in .50 paise or 1 rupee of rounding.

Resolution

Rounding only happens, if the document does not end either in .5 or .00 INR, In India its a business requirement that all documents should either end in .50 paise or 1.00 rupee rounding. so if your document net price is 900 INR ( 900 + 4.5 ) is ending with 945.50 then no rouding is applied but this results in 945.60 then rounding will come in and create diff price .10 INR component to make for the rounding value to be paid /received as 945.50 only since the dedominations should either in 0.50 paise or 1 rupee of rounding.

Keywords

KBA , AP-RC-BCT , Business Config. Tools (SAP Business ByDesign , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions