#COE #BA01 Reassign Costs and Revenue IC posting period restriction

[RyanMuller]

Hello,

We're attempting to restrict postings to our intercompany clearing account as part of period close.

We've created a GL account posting period range which we can manage separately and tested that it successfully blocks normal journal entries directly calling that account when that period is open.

However, we've found that reassign costs and revenue posting entries which use that account as the offset to get the account costs reassigned from the sender to the receiver in another company code still post.

Is there any way to block those reassign entries from posting to that account using period control? I suspect we'd have to restrict an entire CO business transaction type instead or along with the posting period range.

Best,

Ryan

[OwenLiu]

Checking with Product Owner.

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[OwenLiu · Accepted solution]

Hi Ryan,

With Posting Periods between FI and CO it is still bit tricky as currently still two processes and two apps exist. In the long run this should be aligned under one.

However, I tested it now in our systems and I assume that customer need to maintain period block specifically for CO Related Periods TAB in the app: Manage Posting Periods F2293.

There it is possible to separately block postings to GL Accounts coming from FI e.g. via Post General Journal Entries (first tab ) and coming from CO e.g. Reassign Costs and Revenues (third tab ).

As far as I know the reason for that is to allow adjustment postings coming from CO during period closing even if the standard FI postings are already blocked.

Additionally, to the above mentioned check there is control for Business Transaction Types via the app Manage Posting Periods – Cost Accounting F4684, but this is additional process check resulting into different message in the CO posting apps – mentioning BTTYPE.

BR, Owen on behalf of PO

[RyanMuller · Accepted solution]

owen.liu - Thanks for the response, I'm confused however about what the ultimate solution SAP is recommending for the issue.

We get that on the FI side we can create a posting period account group for each company code that is isolating the account (in this case 68888800 - IC Expense Clearing) and that stops the normal journal entry postings. But as mentioned that account is the offset for Reassign Costs and Revenue Postings cross company code and doesn't stop postings coming into that blocked company code.

There is no CO posting period for just an account group, it is for the entire company code. The Business Transaction Type similarly blocks all of a business transaction type by company code and is not GL specific.

Best,

Ryan

[OwenLiu · Accepted solution]

Hi Ryan,

I'm afraid the requirement is not achievable in current system.

Suggest you to raise feature request.

BR,

Owen