3633770 - Error: 'Action "Post" is not permitted for business transaction for financials of Expense Report in processing status In Process and relevance status Irrelevant' occurs while posting the Expense Report

• Unable to post the expense reports
• Error: Action "Post" is not permitted for business transaction for financials of Expense Report 'ABC' in processing status In Process and relevance status Irrelevant

( here ABC' refers to the Expense report ID)

SAP Business ByDesign

1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
2. Go to the Expense reports sub view.
3. Search for the relevant expense report ID.
4. Error is displayed

 Error: Action "Post" is not permitted for business transaction for financials of Expense Report 'ABC' in processing status In Process and relevance status Irrelevant.

• The expense report is stuck in general ledger work center.
• Expense report 'ABC' is with the total expenses 234.39 GBP, and one of the source documents from the expense report with the amount 104.40 GBP was already in irrelevant status.
• Nothing can be done once the business documents are irrelevant.
• So, the expense report ABC -1 needs to be posted with the amount -129.99 (234.39 - 104.40) from backend system. 

( Here above expenses are for reference purpose only)

Once the pending amount of the expense report 'ABC' has been posted from the backend. The new expense report for unposted document for leftover amount (i.e., -104.40) needs to be created. Before posting that, needs to maintain the Account determination missing for account determination group Business Mileage Reimbursement. 

1. Go to Business Configuration work center.
2. Go to the Overview sub view.
3. Search for the Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination activity
4. Choose the account determination for Costs.
5. To define the account for chart of accounts (Select the relevant chart of account) and go to tab 'General Expenses'.
6. Enter a general ledger account for 'Business Mileage Reimbursement'.
7. Save it.
8. Now the Expense report for the pending amount can be posted.   

Note: Initially to post the Expense Report ABC-1 from the backend, the case needs to be created to SAP Technical support, after the validation the correction will be made by Development support.

General ledger, expense reports, backend system, account determination, business mileage reimbursement, chart of accounts, general expenses, posting failed status. , KBA , AP-FMD-EER , Business ByDesign: External Expense Report , Problem