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3459698 - Error - Account determination is missing for item type Cost of Sales while posting Goods and Activity Confirmation.

Symptom

Goods and Activity Confirmation 'XXX' was not posted due to an Account determination missing for item type cost of sales.

XXX refers to Goods and Activity Confirmation ID.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to Source documents sub view.
  3. Filter it with Unposted Source documents.
  4. Search for the documents Goods and activity confirmation 'XXX'.
  5. Highlight it and below you will see the error message: Account determination is missing for item type Cost of Sales. Specify account determination in chart of accounts 'YYY' and account determination profile. Column Path Sales->Cost of Sales->Cost of Sales, Item Type Cost of Sales. 

YYY refers to Chart of Accounts ID.

Cause

Cost of Sales account assignment is required for the Goods and Activity Confirmation, hence it was not maintained so that Account determination missing error was thrown up. Also if you see under the Cost of Sales tab, for Finished goods the cost of sales has been maintained as COGS Material Consumed, and the same has been taken into the Goods and Activity Transaction for the postings.

Resolution

 

  1. Go to work center Business Configuration.
  2. Go to the Overview sub view.
  3. Select and open the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination.
  4. Under Account Determination, select the Subledger Sales.
  5. Highlight the Chart of accounts 'YYY' and go to the tab Cost of sales.
  6. Try to maintain the required account determination based on the Goods and activity confirmation either it is Materials or services.
  7. For Finished goods, if the Cost of Sales has been maintained as COGS Material Consumed, then you can maintain the account determination for Materials.
  8. Now, go to the General Ledger work center.
  9. Go to Source documents sub view.
  10. Filter it with Unposted Source documents.
  11. Search for the documents Goods and activity confirmation 'XXX'.
  12. Select Actions-->Post Business Transaction.

It will get posted without any error message.

See Also

2664718 - Cost of Sales Tab is Missing in Account Determination.

Keywords

Goods and Activity Confirmation, Account Determination, Cost of Sales, Business Configuration, Unposted Source documents. , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2402