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3511139 - Error Message: 'Account Determination is Missing for Item Type Purchase Account' while Posting Warehouse Confirmation

Symptom

Error while trying to post Unposted Source Document ABC and the error is shown as:

Account Determination is missing for Item Type Purchase Account.
Specify Account Determination in Charts of Accounts: Chart of Accounts and Account Determination Profile.
Column Path Inventories->Purchase Account->Purchase Account, Item Type Purchase Account.

(Here ABC refers to Source document ID)

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Source Documents view.
  3. Select the Source document id ABC.
  4. Error message shown
  5. Account determination is missing for item type Purchase Account. Specify account determination in chart of accounts Chart of Account and account determination profile. Column Path Inventories->Purchase Account->Purchase Account, Item Type Purchase Account.

Cause

The error is due the missing Account determination for the combination of Account determination group for Materials and Account determination group for Suppliers.

 

Resolution

You need to maintain the combination of Account determination group for Materials and Account determination group for Suppliers. in the Business Configuration in the following steps:

  1. Go to the Business Configuration Work center.
  2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  3. Select the Project and Choose Open Activity List.
  4. Go to the Fine-Tune Activities.
  5. Show All Activities and Find Activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination.
  6. Choose the relevant Account Determination Profile,  Change Subledger to Inventories.
  7. Go to the Purchase Account tab.
  8. Enter Account determination group for Materials and Account determination group for Suppliers and maintain the G/L account under Purchase Account and Purchase Offsetting Account.

Now, you are able to post the document from unposted source document.

Keywords

Purchase Account, Item Type Purchase Account, account determination, Warehouse confirmation, unposted source documents , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2408