2341699 - Costs Without Assignment to Sales Order for Supplier Invoice Items With Cash Discounts/ Surcharges/ Cost Distributions

You create supplier invoice ABC with items associated with customer project tasks DEF-XX, DEF-YY (ABC represents the supplier invoice ID; DEF represents the project ID; XX and YY represent the project task IDs).

For these items, say ABC-A and ABC-B (ABC-A/B represent the Supplier Invoice Item IDs),

• you selected the Distribute Additional Costs Proportionally option or
• you maintained an Overall Net Discount, Surcharge or Reduction or
• you maintained a Net Discount, Surcharge or Reduction on Item level.

In Project Management you verify that all project expenses are assigned to sales order items. You therefore expect that

• all related expenses are immediately realized on the expense account (if no accrual method is assigned to the sales order item) 
• all related expenses get realized with the revenue recognition run (if an accrual method is assigned to the sales order item).

Instead, you notice

• (for all items) an unassigned, deferred Cost of Goods sold amount associated with these supplier invoice items,
• (for sales order items using an accrual method: ) a warning in the revenue recognition run application log reporting that 'Costs without assignment to a sales order exist for project DEF'.
• You then check the Sales Accruals report and notice the unassigned, deferred Cost of Goods sold amount originates from these Supplier Invoice items.

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