SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3395731 - Material G/L Account Posting Is Different To The Maintained Valuation Data

Symptom

You maintained the account determination group as AAA for material BBB, and you found that BBB has posted to two G/L accounts, and you wonder why.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

First check the G/L Account posted to the material BBB:

  1. Go to Inventory Valuation work center.
  2. Go to Reports view.
  3. Click on Report: Material Inventories - Balance History, and filter for material BBB.
  4. Can see it is posted to G/L Account: CCC and G/L Account: DDD.

Then check the valuation data maintained for material BBB:

  1. Go to Inventory Valuation work center.
  2. Go to Materials view.
  3. Search for material: BBB.
  4. Go to Valuation tab, and can see account determination group maintained is AAA.
  5. Go to Business Configuration work center.
  6. Go to Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination view.
  7. Can see for AAA, G/L Account: CCC is maintained.

Cause

  1. Go to Inventory Valuation work center.
  2. Go to Materials view.
  3. Search for material: BBB.
  4. Click on 'maintain valuation data'.
  5. Click on 'view changes'.
  6. You can see the account determination group: AAA has changed from DDD to CCC.
  7. If you cross check with the creation data on Report: Material Inventories - Balance History, this is consistent to the applied change.

Resolution

It is the expected system behavior.

Keywords

account determination group, material G/L accounts, Material Inventories - Balance History , KBA , SRD-FIN-INV , Inventory , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions