SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2832058 - Accounting Posting for the Zero Balance Supplier Invoice

Symptom

You have posted a supplier invoice with the zero balance and you are not clear of the journal entry posting done in the system

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to General Ledger work center.
  2. Under Journal Entries view select Journal Entries.
  3. Search with the Source Document of your supplier invoice and click the corresponding Journal Entry ID.

Sample

Foreign exch. gains 0 debit

Goods Rcvd/Invoice Rcvd - not yet delivered 0 debit.

 

Cause

In the case of a zero value invoice, there's no due item created. Because of this, system offset against the miscellaneous ledger.

Resolution

We have specific logic for this in which if there's no due item, we set the miscellaneous ledger as the offset ledger, and we post into whatever account is maintained for foreign currency rounding differences. The balance in this account never actually changes, but we need to have something here when there's no due lines. So this is how it is handled in the system for zero value invoices.

Keywords

zero invoice posting logic, zero price, exchange rate difference, , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions