Symptom
Error message 'Different chart of accounts; provide a set of books or maintain mapping' is displayed while clicking Simulate of clicking Post in a New Journal Entry Voucher.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the General Ledger work center.
- Go to the Common Tasks view -> New Journal Entry Voucher option.
- Enter respective Company, leave Set of Books field empty, enter Journal Entry Type 00047 - Manual Posting - Journal Entry Voucher and Screen Variant 601 - Journal Entry Voucher and other required fields.
- Enter the line items: one line for G/L Account ABC and a second line for G/L Account DEF (ABC and DEF mean G/L Accounts).
- Click Simulate or Post.
- Error is displayed: 'Different chart of accounts; provide a set of books or maintain mapping'.
Cause
The G/L Account Mapping has been done in the following sequence:
Chart of Accounts: Chart of Accounts assigned to an alternative set of books.
Mapped Chart of Accounts: Chart of Accounts assigned to default set of books (company's leading set of books).
This order is incorrect. The mapping should be done in the opposite way.
Resolution
Maintain G/L Account Mapping from Chart of Accounts assigned to the default set of books (company's leading set of books) to Chart of Accounts assigned to an alternative set of books.
See Also
Help Document Define G/L Account Mapping
Keywords
chart of accounts; CoA; mapping; set of books; SoB , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To