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3170305 - Unposted Purchase Order with Error for Account Determination is Missing for Cash

Symptom

A purchase orders is stuck as unposted source document. The error message asks to maintain an account determination for e.g. Cash and you would like to know why that is required.

Account determination is missing for cash. Define the account for chart of accounts <CoA ID>, tab Bank Accounts' field 'Bank Accounts. Enter a general ledger account for the account determination group <ADG ID>and currency.

(CoA ID refers to the Chart of Account)
(ADG ID refers to the Account Determination group for Cash)

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Source Documents view.
  3. Find the related unposted purchase order.

Error: Account determination is missing for cash. Define the account for chart of accounts <CoA ID>, tab Bank Accounts' field 'Bank Accounts. Enter a general ledger account for the account determination group <ADG ID>and currency.

Cause

The system is scoped with forecasting and in fine-tune activity Financial Forecast, there is a forecast posting scheme for purchase orders related to the Cash account and mapped to account determination group mentioned in the error message.

The forecast posting scheme can be seen as follows:

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
  2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  3. Open the activity list.
  4. Find and open activity Financial Forecast.
  5. Click Edit forecast posting schemes. You see the posting scheme type for procurement.

Resolution

Therefore, for the system to post the forecast related to the purchase order, the account determination needs to be maintained as per below steps:

  1. In the Business Configuration workcenter navigate to the Implementation Projects view and open the activity list.
  2. Go to the Fine Tune phase, search for the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination and open it.
  3. Navigate to the Account Determination section and select the Cash link.
  4. Select the Account Determination Profile and Go to the Bank Accounts tab.
  5. Press Add row.
  6. Maintain the Account Determination Group used for the bank account.
  7. Maintain the Currency and G/L account in the Bank Accounts field.

 Once maintained, you can post the unposted source document.

Keywords

Forecast Document. Account Determination, Account determination is missing for cash, Purchase order , KBA , purchase order , forecast document , account determination is missing for cas , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions