3150583 - Exchange Rate difference postings: KDM and KBS - SAP ERP & SAP S/4HANA

Symptom

When posting an invoice for an item (either material or service) with an exchange rate difference (ER), the difference is expected to be posted to a KDM (Exchange rate posting) account, or to a PRD (Price difference), depending on the configuration set in OMRW:

Instead, the differences go to a KBS account, with this account being the one maintained at item level in the PO Account Assignment section:

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Environment

Materials Management (MM)
SAP ERP Central Component
SAP ERP
SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP
SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA
SAP S/4HANA

Product

SAP ERP Central Component all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

Keywords

Forex Gain, differences, currency, curr, lc, lc2, multiple, single, account assignment, maa, invoices , KBA , MM-IV-GF-VAL , Valuation, Account determination, Postings , Problem

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