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 then found that BBB has posted to two G/L accounts.

(where AAA represents account determination group, BBB represents the material ID)

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. Select Account Determination --> Inventories.
  8. Can see for AAA, G/L Account: CCC is maintained.

(where CCC and DDD represent G/L accounts)

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. The account determination group: AAA has changed from DDD to CCC.
  7. Cross check with the creation data on Report: Material Inventories - Balance History.
  8. This is consistent to the applied change.

Resolution

It is the expected system behaviour.

Keywords

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

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions