3777646 - Opening Balance not updated after AdvFCV posting entered Post Automatic Balance Carryforward Run – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

After the automatic Balance Carryforward (BCF) has run for the new fiscal year, an Advanced Foreign Currency Valuation (AdvFCV) posting is made with a posting date in the previous fiscal year but entered into the system after the automatic BCF run date.

• The fiscal year opening balance in Trial Balance or Display G/L Account Balances does not reflect the AdvFCV posting and shows an unexpected remaining balance.
• No new or adjusted BCF document is generated for the late posting and no recalculation entry is visible in Journal Entry Analyzer.

Product: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

1. Run balance carryforward for the new fiscal year.
2. Post an AdvFCV dated to the previous fiscal year after the automatic/scheduled balance carryforward run has completed.
3. Check the opening balance in Trial Balance and compare with Display Line Items in General Ledger for the prior year.

• The AdvFCV was created after the scheduled automatic balance carryforward run for year‑end. Postings entered to the prior fiscal year after this cutoff are not picked up by the automatic update and require a manual balance carryforward re-run to update opening balances.
• For open‑item managed reconciliation accounts, balance carryforward does not generate additional correction documents for late postings; balances are updated through background aggregation logic rather than new BCF documents.

This is standard, expected system behavior. 

• Manually re-execute balance carryforward via the Schedule General Ledger Jobs app using the Balance Carryforward job template to correctly reflect any prior fiscal year posting entered after the automatic BCF run date. A manual BCF re-run check should be incorporated into the period-end operation flow to cover prior fiscal year postings made after the automatic BCF run date.
• To confirm the date and status of the last automatic BCF run, refer to the Balance Carryforward Status app.

Note: The BCF amount appearing in Display G/L Account Balances but not in Display Line Items is expected. Display Line Items shows document-level postings only. The opening balance adjustment is a balance-level update and is therefore only visible in Display G/L Account Balances and Trial Balance.

• Refer to SAP Note:3014633 - Technical background to automatic scheduling of balance carryforward runs
• Refer to SAP Note (private cloud): 2147964 - Automatic Carry Forward Balance Adjustment - SAP for Me 
• Refer to: Balance Carryforward | Help Portal

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