Business area as a req..field for vat input tax g/l

[Former Member]

in fs00 . we set the additional account assignment for field like suppress req. entry,opt. entry..i want to know for which general ledger it will be required...?

actually in our system for (vat input tax ) gl business area it is not mandatory field ...or when i check the line items for this general ledger business area wise ...it displaying for all business area...

so tell me if i set it as req. field,then will it be right or not?

Thanks & Regards

Rekha Sharma

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

Hi,

Which SAP Version you are working on?

If it is ECC 6.0 & if document splitting is active for Business area, then you don't need to make business area mandatory as the document splitting ensures that the business area field will not go blank.

Also, the vat input yax account will be posted in background. The business area can not be entered for the automatically generated line items. so if you make BA mandatory this will cause an error for these auto generated line items.

So you can not make it mandatory.

Select the particular business area field in dynamic selection (Shift+F4) while displaying for vat input tax ledger in GL line item display report. This will display the postings for the required business area.

Hope this will help you.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[krishnakishore_gaddam]

Hi,

To my understanding taxes are always posted without a business area. System makes transfer postings from tax account to business areas for the income and expense account. A balance sheet adjustment is carried out according to business area if 'Business Area Balance sheets' has been activated in company code global parameters(OBY6).

When you post a document the system determines this document and notes for the adjustment. Documents noted during posting are calculated for the adjustment. The system calculates the adjustment according to the account assignments. Execute F.5D(programSAPF180A) reads the marked documents, calculates the necessary adjustment postings, and updates these in its own database tables. After that execute F.5E(program SAP F180) reads the adjustment posting tables and on this basis posts the accounting documents required.

For example you posted on customer invoice:

Customer A/c Dr 1150(Accts Receivables)

Revenue A/c1 Cr 600 (BA-1)

Revenue A/c2 Cr 400 (BA-2)

Tax A/c Cr 150

During the Balance Sheet Adjustment the system divides this tax entry by business area wise

Tax A/c 90(BA-1)

Tax A/c 60(BA-2)

You cannot run balance sheet adjustment without activating the 'Business Area Balance Sheets' at company code global parameters.

Hope it will clear your query.

Regards,

Krishna Kishore

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[suma_mani]

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[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

Hi,

You can make 'Business Area' as required entry by changing field status group, but for Input/Output tax account it will lead to an Error, because these are the automatic generated line items, second way is that do not check 'Calculate Tax' but select the tax code and add input/output tax line item along with 'Revenue/Expenses' line item with mannual amount and business area, confirm the warnings and simulate entry. But this way is to be used in rare cases, otherwise whatever "G Krishna Kishore" quoted, is absolutely right.

Regards,

Rupinder S Sandhu

[Former Member]

hi

the field status of any transaction data will be set as per the requirement. For example the expense gl's should have the field status of cost center mandatory to capture the costs into respective cost centers. Again you have to consider some other requirements like if you have activated document split and if you are activated document split at business area or profit center etc as mandatory fields. Then you have to consider the field status as per the scenario. further any doubts you can message me.

thanks and regards

satya

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can not activate Business Area field at Input Tax G/L Account Level. There is no field in GL masters. You might have seen at Posting Key level or Document level. Check once again at which level you are trying to make required field.

Sarma BH

[Former Member]

Dear Sharma,

there is no field status at document level.

the field status is only set at gl feild status group and posting keys.

the business area field is available in field status groups in additional assignment fields.

thanks and regards

satya

Edited by: SATYA on Sep 10, 2009 11:46 AM