Sunday, March 25, 2012

End User Document - GL Automatic Clearing

Transaction code: F.13
Clears GL in one run.
You can define 3 fields for sort criteria (in the configuration). Eg, all documents with the same value in the field "Assignment".

Example:
GR/IR Accounts and Fright Clearing Accounts are managed open item clearing.
They have Debit / Credit transactions.
At the end of each period (month) you can match certain Debits to Credits automatically.

For this, the GL Accounts have to be marked as open item when they are created.

Follow the menu path: Accounting->Financial Accounting->Automatic Clearing->Without Specific Clearing Currency (F.13)

Double click on F.13 transaction
1. Enter the Company code, Fiscal year
2. Cleck on 'Select GL Account' Button (We want to process GL Accounts only)
Eg. GL account 191100
3. At the bottom of the screen click on 'Only Documents that can be cleared' (System will clear only documents that can be cleared as per predefined criteria (eg. same assignment number)
4. click Test Run (for test mode, by default it will be in test mode)
5. Click 'Execute' to run

Below is the screen you get


If you run it without 'Test mode', you will get a message 'Document number xxxxxx updated in compnay code: 3000'.