SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2940098 - Multiple accounting documents created for one single material posting

Symptom

There could be more than one accounting documents created for one single material movement document. It's unclear what is the reason.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

Check the accounting documents for material movement document.

Cause

There are 2 main causes for the additional accounting documents:

1. Event-based Revenue Recognition posting.

You can find more information in the help portal.

2. COGS Split posting.

This function is briefly introduced in Note 2399030.
Find more information in the help portal.
You can also find the example in the Configuration Help for SSCUI 102617.

Resolution

This is standard system behavoir.

How to check the source of an accounting document:

1. Event-based Revenue Recognition posting.

The document type is normally SA (G/L Account Document).
The accounts used in the document are according to the SSCUI 102517.

2. COGS Split posting.

The Doc.status is normally U (Posting in General Ledger Only).
The accounts used in the document are according to SSCUI 102617.

Keywords

Journal Entry, Journal Entries, double, additional, FI documents, source document. , KBA , CO-PC-OBJ-EBR-2CL , Event-Based Revenue Recognition (Public Cloud) , CO-PA-ACT , Flow of actual values , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions