3476323 - Profit Center ID is not derived in the Journal Entry Line Items

Certain General Ledger accounts are not deriving profit centers making it challenging to identify which entity does the transactions belong to within a specific company, especially for various types of transactions such as cash disbursements, balance carry forwards, supplier invoices, and manual posting Journal Entry Vouchers.

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1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
2. Go to Journal Entries view.
3. Search for Journal Entry ID 123 (123 refers to the Journal Entry ID) and click on view.
4. Under the line items, you can observe that there is no Profit center assigned to the G/L Account XXX (XXX refers to the G/L Account ID).

The default profit center is not maintained for the particular subledger.

When maintaining a default profit center in the Business Configuration, it is expected that a subledger is specified too. 

Steps to maintain the Default Profit Centers for Subledgers:

1. Go to the Business configuration work center.
2. Go to the Overview view.
3. Search for the Activity Profit center derivation and click on View
4. Click on the link Edit Default Profit Center.
5. Maintain the Default profit center for all the subledgers.

For example, if you have maintained the Profit Center AAA (AAA refers to the Profit Center ID) for the subledger Cash, then for any cash ledger line items created in a journal entry that cannot derive a profit center, this default Profit Center AAA will be chosen as default.

It is advised to maintain the default profit center for every subledger, including the "Without Subledger" option. This will prevent further issues with documents posted after this configuration is appropriately maintained.

For already posted documents, follow the below workaround: 

• Reverse and repost the document from the source documents to check if the profit center is derived.
• Note that this is not a cancellation but a reverse and repost action. The initial journal entry will be reversed with the same values, and a new journal will be created for the same posting date with the same values, and the profit center will be derived correctly (Try this workaround in your TEST System first).

Default Profit Center, Subledger, Journal Entry, G/L Account , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To