Description of Critical Business Transaction Status: 20.02.2002

Number of transaction

Short description

4 Inverse posting for correcting an inverse posting The terms request, invoice and credit memo are treated as synonyms in the following description. In addition, original incoming and outgoing payments and payment transfers between subledger accounts (for example down payment clearing and so on) are understood under payments.

1 Description of Critical Business Transaction/ Process Chain

1.1 Description/ Origin

An inverse posting is posted in order to correct an inverse posting.

1.1.1 Examples Postings containing errors are not reversed, rather corrected using an inverse posting.

1.2 Resulting Problems Logical chains are formed which could cause problems in the subsequent processing (account maintenance/account overview). These chains can cause performance problems in the payment selection and updating errors.

1.3 Avoiding Errors Ensure that this posting is not made. SAP checks whether this critical business transaction can be prevented by the system.

2 Description of Recommended Posting Scenario

2.1 Description It should be checked whether a reversal posting can be used for correcting a posting. If an inverse posting must be corrected, it should be reversed!

2.1.1 Posting example No posting example available.

3 Summary and Correction Options Problem transaction Correction option TCD / ABAP

Inverse posting of an inverse posting

Reverse inverse postings

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Description of Critical Business Transaction/ Process ChainDescription/ OriginExamples

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Description of Recommended Posting ScenarioDescriptionPosting example

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