2766868 - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles: Creation of New Posting Control Profile For Procurement Processes.

According to a country specification (example, France), you want to create a new Posting Control Profile in which Exchange Rate Differences is posted to Original Expense Account like Price Differences.

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1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
2. Go to the Overview view.
3. Show All Configuration Elements.
4. Search and open the activity: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
5. Select the Posting Control Profiles for Procurement Processes.
6. Select the button Copy to copy the standard Posting Control Profile ID.

• The Payment and Price Differences boxes: "Cash Discount", "Over-/Underpayment" and "Differences from Deviating Payment Currency" are editable.
• The Payment and Price Differences boxes: "Price Differences" and "Exchange Rate Differences" are grayed out and not editable.

SAP as part of standard business processes has specific business scenario attached to "Price Differences" and "Exchange Rate Differences" and hence, does not allow change of these fields.

This is the standard system behavior.

 Only the Payment and Price Differences boxes: "Cash Discount", "Over-/Underpayment" and "Differences from Deviating Payment Currency" are editable.

 The Payment and Price Differences boxes: "Price Differences" and "Exchange Rate Differences" are not editable.

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