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3458895 - Duplicate entries in Remeasured Balances.

Symptom

  • A Foreign Currency Remeasurement Run 'ABC' was executed.
  • While reviewing the Postings and Results, duplicate entries of the G/L account were noticed under Remeasured Balances, with the same Entry/Balance appearing twice. This causing the Remeasurement Posting to be made twice as well.

'ABC' refers to Foreign Currency Remeasurement Run.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Foreign currency Remeasurement run sub view.
  3. Search for the Rub 'ABC'.
  4. Navigate to the Remeasured balances tab.
  5. In the Remeasured Balances tab, the G/L account shows duplicate entries, with the same Entry/Balance appearing twice. 

Cause

  • The company 'DEF' has 2 sets of books, 'PQR' and 'TUV', where both assigned to the same Chart of Accounts 'XYZ'.
  • When both sets of books are selected in the Data Selection of the Foreign Currency Remeasurement Run, two entries are generated for each G/L account because both sets of books use the same Chart of Accounts.

DEF refers to Company ID.

PQR refers to Set of Books 1

TUV refers to Set of Books 2

XYZ refers to Chart of Accounts.

Resolution

To avoid these Duplicate entries in the Remeasured Balances, try to select only one Set of Books under the Data Selection of Foreign Currency Remeasurement Run.

After this selection complete the run and check under Remeasured balances tab, there won't be any Duplicate entries of the G/L Accounts.

Keywords

Duplicate Entries, Remeasured Balances, Foreign Currency Remeasurement Run, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts. , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions