3650958 - Advanced Foreign Currency Valuation performance issues - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Memory and performance issues in Advanced Foreign currency Valuation.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

In configuration activity Assign Semantic Tags to Financial Statement Versions (SSCUI 102659) or App Manage Global Hierarchies, FS Item/Accounts assigned to semantic Tag (Example FX) for advanced foreign currency Valuation are shown for FS Version. 

In the app Display Line items in General ledger copy these account groups by G/L Account name and transaction key. 

Check whether the accounts should it be valuated:

For example if a tax account is valuated, does this make sense from a business point of view?

Another Example is WRX GR/IR Clearing accounts. Should this account be valuated? 

Refer to the following Help Portal Documentation:

• Account Determination. 
• Reconcile GR/IR Accounts
• Automatic Clearing

Are all accounts which are flagged correctly with semantic tag for advanced foreign currency valuation configured appropriately as open item managed or not?

If yes, refer to the SAP Help Portal Documentation:

Open Item Management for G/L Accounts

This documentation shows types of accounts typically which should be open item managed and those which should not.

For those accounts that are correctly configured as open item managed, check whether these can be cleared on a regular basis?

Example using apps: 

• Automatic Clearing
• Manage Automatic Payments
  
• Automatic Scheduling of the Payment Program
  
• Clear G/L Accounts
  
• Post Outgoing Payments
• Clear Outgoing Payments
• Clear Incoming Payments

Important to note:
Advanced foreign currency valuation postings created through advanced foreign currency valuation job in app Schedule General Ledger jobs with business transaction category RFCV that are open, are not cleared until after the clearing of the preceding Journal Entries using clearing app and the subsequent advanced foreign Currency Valuation run after the clearing of preceding journal Entry

Therefore when considering to remove semantic tags check that there are no open RFCV items on account. If there are, take steps to clear open items and run advanced valuation after same.

An alternative to clearing RFCV items in this circumstance is to reverse same in app Manage Journal Entries.  It is necessary to consider from business point of view whether it is okay to accept such reversal postings in your balance sheet. 

The Advanced Foreign Currency Valuation may take longer to process even with the same number of entries. This is because every run selects all open invoices that have not yet been cleared, along with their previous valuation results. As uncleared invoices accumulate over time, the total selection volume grows, resulting in longer processing time.

• Behavior of Advanced Foreign Currency Valuation after Clearing 
• Explanation of the delta posting logic
• Introduction of the Advanced Valuation runs
• How to understand the result list of Advanced Foreign Currency Valuation 
• 3219200 - How to Post Advanced Foreign Currency Valuation

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