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3450581 - 'Different chart of accounts; provide a set of books or maintain mapping' Error In New Journal Entry Voucher

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

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Common Tasks view -> New Journal Entry Voucher option.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. Click Simulate or Post.
  6. 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

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions