Reveres the previous year billing document

[Katari]

Hi Forum,

Our fiscal year in Jan-Dec, one of the users cancelled the previous year 2013 December billing document (VF01) in the current period and created the new invoice for that. But at the time of released to accounting system is not generation the accounting document and throwing the error message “ Posting period 012 2013 is not open”. But my billing date is 11/04/2014.

Why system is checking the previous year posting date even though my billing date is 11/04/2014, but when I try to reverse and regenerate the billing document for the same customer invoice which was created in this fiscal year (Jan-Nov) system is allowing me and creating the accounting document why system is picking the previous year posting date?

Due to year change system is behaving like this?

What is the best solution to overcome this situation?

Regards,

Raman

[Former Member]

Hi Raman,

This may be because while cancelling the document in VF11, if the current date is not given then by default the system takes the invoice date and tries to post the acctg. document to that period.

Solution: edit the cancelled document in vf02,

->goto ->header ->header->Change the billing date to current and save.

Hope this works.

Thanks

MK

[Katari]

Hi MK,

Thanks for your update, but in VF02 I am giving current date only.

But in released to accounting it is picking previous year date.

Regards,

Raman

[former_member190652]

When the billing date is blank in VF11, then the billing document would be cancelled in the same period as the original billing document.  That means in your case, you might have left the billing date field as blank in VF11.  So, it might have cancelled the billing document in the prior period.  But since the prior period is not open in FI, it's not able to post the accounting document for the reversal.  In case you had entered billing date as current date, then both the billing and account documents would have been cancelled in the current period.

However, now you are saying that billing date is the current date as you can see from VF02.  This is bit strange.

Could you please elaborate what did you enter while cancelling the billing document in VF11.

Sridhar

[sanilbhandari]

Hi

Please check if you have any user exit or enhancement implemented for updating the billing document. For one of my previous client, we had an exit which updated the billing date with delivery date so that revenue recognition happens on the same date as outbound delivery. Check if this is the case in your case.

Regards

Sanil Bhandari

[Katari]

Hi Sridhar/Sanil,

The billing has been done on 12/01/2013 and the reversal has been done on 10/31/2014. So in the reversal the accounting document has been generated successfully in the October 2014. But again when we creates the billing document and perform the released to accounting we are getting the error “Posting period 012 2013 is not open”.

Why system is picking the previous year date even though the billing date is today, is there anything we need to check?

Regards,

Raman