Symptom
Error message "the difference is too large for clearing" encountered during the bank statement process.
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Reproducing the Issue
- Open the Reprocess Bank Statement Items app.
- Select a bank statement item.
- Attempt to post/clear the bank statement item.
- Observe the error: "The difference is too large for clearing".
Cause
There are two documents with the same document number in different fiscal years, which leads to an ambiguous clearing selection and a resulting difference that exceeds tolerance.
Resolution
- Use the Display Line Items in General Ledger app to search for the document number that was identified from the bank statement memo line.
- If multiple documents with the same document number exist across different fiscal years, clear the document in the earlier fiscal year first.
- After clearing the earlier fiscal year document, retry posting the bank statement item.
Keywords
difference is too large for clearing, interpretation algorithm, bank statement processing, reprocess bank statement items, automatic clearing, memo line, duplicate document number, fiscal year, clearing tolerance, reconciliation, bank statement posting, clearing error, posting failure , KBA , FI-BL-PT-BA-2CL , bank statement (Public Cloud) , Problem
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