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3395595 - Balance Summary Report Shows Negative Value For Material AAA

Symptom

You observe material: AAA shows negative value in the balance summary report, you want to know why and how to correct it.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Inventory Valuation work center.
  2. Go to Report view and click on report: balance summary report.
  3. Enter required information such as company, set of books, and material ID: AAA.
  4. You can see the value is negative.

Cause

You can navigate to the line-item G/L account report of the material: AAA to check the journal entries of the material: AAA. This could explain why it shows a negative value.

If you hope to adjust the value, you may follow the instruction on help doc:<Manual Entries for Materials>.

Resolution

This is the expected system behavior.

Keywords

negative material value, balance summary report , KBA , AP-ACC , Business ByDesign: Financial Accounting , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions