Hi Swapnil
The Purchase Accounts Posting System allows you to manage a company's budget and expenses. It is a sensitive definition in the sense that once it's activated and journal entries have been created it cannot be updated. Purchase accounts posting system has to be activated. Purchase accounts help you get the details of all the purchases made in a period, typically required to some legal reporting in these countries companies need to present a purchase ledger for statutory reporting. Purchase accounting is a legal requirement for Roman countries like Belgium, France, Portugal, spain. These countries need to present a purchase ledger for statutory reporting.
In companies which manage a continuous stock system, it is now possible to use the Purchase Accounts Posting System. This option includes the recording of expense accounts in journal entries created automatically due to purchasing documents which affect the inventory valuation: A/P Invoice (not based on a Goods Receipt PO), A/P Credit Memo, Goods Receipt PO and Good Returns.
Purchase accounting in SAP will not give desired results if sub contracting activities are involved. For settlements of subcontracting transactions, the system does not post to the purchase account nor to the purchase offsetting account.
Purchase account: When an A/P invoice or a goods receipt PO is created; the purchase account is recorded in the journal entry along with the same amount that is recorded for the stock account.
Purchase return account: When a goods return or an A/P credit memo is created, this account is recorded in the journal entry along with the same amount that is recorded for the stock account.
Purchase offset account: This account is an offsetting account for purchase account or purchase return account.
I hope this will clear your all doubts
Ashish Gupte
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