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3417356 - Error 'G/L account (origin) is missing for sales line item with G/L account Cost of Sales' during New Journal Entry Voucher creation

Symptom

You are trying to create a new journal entry voucher with the type 00088- Manual Entry for Sales Documents and 634 - Man. Write-Up/Write-Down for Sales Doc and encounter error 'G/L account (origin) is missing for sales line item with G/L account Cost of Sales' upon posting or simulation.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to General Ledger work center and New Journal Entry Voucher with the type 00088- Manual Entry for Sales Documents and 634 - Man. Write-Up/Write-Down for Sales Doc.
  2. Enter 'Cost of sales' G/L account which includes Sales document details and a debit entry
  3. Enter 2 more rows with 2 different 'Costs or expenses' G/L account and hit simulate to encounter error message.

The message is not thrown when 2nd and 3rd row contains same G/L account even though the 1st row has a blank G/L Account (Origin) field

Cause

System is behaving as expected.

Resolution

If there exists more than one expense or revenue lines with different G/L Accounts, you must enter a valid G/L Account (Origin) for the sales ledger lines. Hence system throws error message.

See Also

Manual Entries for Sales Documents: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_BUSINESS_BYDESIGN/2754875d2d2a403f95e58a41a9c7d6de/2cc26fd7722d1014805fb12e7529365e.html

Keywords

JEV, Manual Entries for Sales Documents, G/L Account (Origin) , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions