3599734 - Functional Area Incorrectly Derived for G/L account in Journal Entry

The functional area assigned in a journal entry posting line for G/L account XYZ is not as expected. The line should have derived functional area ABC.  Instead, functional area DEF is assigned (XYZ represents the G/L account ID; ABC represents a functional area ID, DEF represents a different functional area ID). 

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1. In the General Ledger go, for example, to the Journal Entries view.
2. Find the journal entry of your business transaction and open it.
3. For the respective journal entry item, posted to G/L account XYZ, the derived functional are is not the expected functional area ABC but DEF.

Either 

• G/L account XYZ was assigned to functional area DEF at the time of the posting.

Or 

• G/L account XYZ was not assigned to any functional area. Instead, the functional area DEF was derived from the cost center type of the cost center, also assigned to the posting line. 

To find out if this fine tune setting was changed after your business transaction posting:

1. ,go to the Business Configuration work center, and here,  go to the Reports view.
2. Select Configuration Change History and then select Fine-Tuning Settings.
3. Find and select the Settings for Income Statements by Function of Expense and Earned Profit Analysis activity and download the change log to MS Excel via View Change Details.
4. Now check: 

• • if the functional area assignment of G/L account XYZ was recently changed from DEF to ABC, or
  • if the G/L account XYZ- functional area ABC combination was recently added. This setting takes priority over the previous functional area -cost center type combination.

For a general business transaction you can reverse and repost the source document:

1. In the General Ledger go to the Source Documents view and find your business transaction.
2. Press Actions and select View Business Transaction. 
3. In the new screen press Reverse and Repost. 

In case the reverse-repost option is not available, create a manual journal entry voucher to remove the posted value on G/L account XYZ from functional area DEF and to manually assign it to functional area ABC.

  2007470 - Functional Area Incorrectly Derived for Cost Center Type in Journal Entry 

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