SAP FICO Issue-7

Issue No.: 7
While creating G/L accounts, some of the G/L accounts were wrongly kept as open item management. Now the
user wants to remove open item management functionality through transaction code FS02, but the system is giving the following error message: "This account does not balance to zero."


System Response:
You cannot switch the open item management specification on or off with this transaction.

Procedure:
If you want to switch this function on retroactively for a certain account, you should create a new account with
the correct setting and use this to make a transfer posting of existing items.

While creating the G/L master, you have to pay utmost attention to the setting of G/L master attributes. The situation here
is changing the attribute of G/L accounts after posting the transaction. For this, you have two options:

 Standard solution:
1. Create a new G/L account.
2. Transfer the account balance from the old G/L account to the new G/L account.
3. Switch off open item management for the old account and retransfer the G/L balance from the new account to the old account.

Without making the account balance zero, you can't switch an open item attribute of a G/L account.

Consulting solution:
As an alternative, the user could try program RFSEPA03, depending on his SAP release. The user may have to copy the program to the "Z" program and remove the piece of code that prevents its use. Before adopting this procedure,make sure the user reads the program documentation and related SAP advice.

SAP FICO Issue-6

Issue No.: 6
There are a few G/L accounts where line item displays are not activated. The client would like to see what
entries are actually hitting these accounts. 

There are two possible solutions regarding this problem. SAP recommends the first solution because only standard means are used. The second solution requires the usage of a correction report and is therefore a consulting solution.

Standard solution:
1. Create a new account and set the options according to your requirements. Be sure to set the line item display indicator (SKB1-XKRES).
2. Transfer the items from the old account to the new account. You can only do this for accounts that you cannot automatically post to. As an alternative, you can transfer the balance completely.
3. Lock the old account for postings.
Consulting solution:
1. Manipulate all documents that were posted in the past. You can use the correction program RFSEPA01
(contained in the standard system as of release 3.0D). Read the document carefully.
2. For releases prior to 3.0D, a corresponding correction program is available on SAPSERV3.
While creating the G/L account, utmost care should be taken with the open item management and line item management attributes of the G/L account.

SAP FICO Issue-5

Issue No.: 5

The user wants to add a trading partner as selection criteria in the F-03 screen. This does not come with the
standard screen.

You are using transaction code F-03 to clear open items for a particular G/L account. While offsetting debit transactions with credits, depending upon business requirements, the user will select one of the selection options provided in that screen. The SAP R/3 system will pull all open items based on the selection criteria. The standard SAP R/3 system comes with very limited selection criteria; however, you can include a new selection field and change the sequence of the selection criteria. To add a new selection field or change the selection criteria sequence, you have to configure the SAP R/3 system through transaction code O7F1.