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3515092 - Migration of Balances of Bank Accounts Unsuccessful For Chinese Companies

Symptom

When migrating Balances of Bank Accounts, the migration shows successful, but the migrated balance is not posted due to the bank statement is not posted.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

First check whether the migration happens successfully:

  1. Go to Business Configuration work center.
  2. Go to Overview view.
  3. Search and open Migration of Accounting Transaction Data.
  4. Open Migration Tool.
  5. Balances of Bank Accounts completes successfully.

Then check the bank statement status:

  1. Go to Liquidity Management work center.
  2. Go to Bank Statements view.
  3. Can find the bank statement status is In Preparation. The migrated balance is not Posted due to the bank statement is not posted.
  4. Click edit, can see warning: Item 1 Cash flow key missing; Use of cash flow key is mandatory for Chinese companies when Direct Cash Flow Statement is scoped. 

Cause

Use of cash flow key is mandatory for Chinese companies when Direct Cash Flow Statement is scoped. As this is missing, the bank statement is not posted and the migration is unsuccessful.

Resolution

  1. Go to Liquidity Management work center
  2. Go to Bank Statements view
  3. Can find the bank statement status is In Preparation. The migrated balance is not Posted due to the bank statement is not posted.
  4. Click edit, can see warning: Item 1 Cash flow key missing; Use of cash flow key is mandatory for Chinese companies when Direct Cash Flow Statement is scoped. 
  5. Enter the cash flow key manually in the bank statement, and click save.
  6. The bank statement should post, and the migration should complete as well.

There will be a pertinent Jira to correct the issue.

Keywords

Balances of Bank Accounts, cash flow key , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions