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inancial Accounting (FI)- Rules -
Unit 8
MELJUN
CORTES
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Business Process Integration
Rules
FI
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Rules
Defines the parameters for MasterData and Transactions
Determines functionality for MasterData and Transactions
Relatively fixed
Changes as policy changes
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R/3
FIFinancial
Accounting
COControlling
PSProject
SystemWFWorkflow
ISIndustry
Solutions
MMMaterials
Mgmt.
HRHuman
Resources
SDSales and
Distribution
PPProduction
Planning
QMQuality
Mgmt.PMPlant Maintenance
SMServiceMgmt.
Client / Server
Integrated Business
Solution
ECEnterpriseControlling
AMFixed Assets
Mgmt.
Financial Accounting (FI)
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Unit 8 Overview
Posting Periods
Tolerance Groups for Account
Postings Accounts Payable Settlement
Document Numbers
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71. Define Posting Periods Variant
72. Open and Close Posting Periods
73. Assign Posting Periods Variant to CompanyCode
74. Create Tolerance Groups for AccountPostings
75. Setup Payment Program
76. Create Tolerance Groups for Accounts
Receivable and Accounts Payable
77. Create Financial Accounting (FI) DocumentNumbers
Unit 8 Exercises
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Posting Periods
Before it is possible to postdocuments, it is necessary to
defineposting periods
Fiscal years are divided into one ormore posting periods
Each posting period is delimited byboth a start and finish
date
A common division of a fiscal year
involves defining 16 posting periods
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Tolerances Groups for
Account Postings Internal control amount limits thatserve to
define the maximumauthorization levels for your
employees Must be at least one entry for every
company code
Can be defined for an employee groupwith employees being
assigned to agiven group to effect the control
Can be undefined at the group level
meaning that the control is effective for
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Tolerances Groups for
Account Postings(continued) Internal control amount limits
thatserve to define the maximumauthorization levels for your
employees with respect to:
A single transaction
A customer or vendor account line item
Discount percentage granted to a lineitem
Payment differences that can beacce ted in settlement of an
account
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Accounts Payable
SettlementPurchaseOrder
GoodsReceipt
InvoiceReceipt
Debit Credit
Payment
Program
Verification
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Accounts Payable
Settlement (continued) Select payment method and bank Select
items for payment
Calculate the payment amount,taking account of cash
discountperiods
Post the payment document Print payment medium
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Document Numbers
All posted transactions must have aunique number assigned to
it
Usually these numbers are systemgenerated
The numbers serve to specifically
identify the business content of atransaction so that it may be
recalledat a later time
The actual system stored document
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Document Numbers
(continued) Before any documents can be postedto a company or
company code,there must be a number range
assigned to the document type
New transaction document numberranges must be created at the
startof each new fiscal year
