Hi murthy,

Can u please send me 3 critical issues and solutions in SAP FI
thanks in advance
Thanks & Regards
G.Narayana
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Hi Narayana,

Please find below some scenarios


Accounts Payables



Question: Problem in running a automatic payment program. Suppose we have a balance of $125000 in my bank account and today we running an Automatic payment run. Total payment of the run is $175000. So when we run Automatic payment run it is not giving any error message. What to do with this problem.

Answer: The Automatic Payment Program does not check the Balance of your Bank Account. (GL A/c. Bal.) What it does check is the min & max amounts that you have maintained in your customization.
In Bank determination (FBZP), you have to fill in the available amounts for each Bank. This is the maximum amount up to which payments will be generated by the Auto. Pay. Run.
So if you want to ensure that on any single day the payment run does not pay more than bank balance, you have to update on a daily basis available balance to match with your bank balance.

Accounts Receivables:

A. How SAP handles the Dunning process?

In SAP system there are 9 predefined payment reminder notices which we can directly use as a notice for the particular customer relating to one dunning area (OB61)

You define your dunning levels in the dunning procedure (FBMP), and you may define as many as 9 dunning levels. To simplify, dunning levels may be understood as counter for the dunning notices you send to your customers:

- for dunning level 1 you will send him a kind payment reminder

- for dunning level 2 you send him a reminder (not so kind)

- for dunning level 3 you add to the reminder a deadline for payment etc...

So the dunning levels will reflect the number of letters sent, also the number of days the items is overdue (Interest will be calculated based on number of days & amount –OB42, and dunning charges will be calculated based on overdue due amount specified in notice),and dunning text(type of notice –Reminder/formal/with interest/) will be specified per dunning level Following a dunning run (F150), the dunning procedure/area/level/ block reasons, is updated in the customer master record (FD01) and in the open items.

B. Lock Box

Question: We are using partial payment option in lockbox (OB10) and we have 0 tolerance at both customer and user level.
The customer has an open invoice of $82500 and that he pays $95000 towards this invoice.
When tested this scenario
- the check status as applied and
- the Invoice and the payment document is still open.
What is the reason for this situation?

Answer: The check status applied is that because of ‘0’ tolerances, lockbox applied the cash to that invoice. If we had any tolerances then overpayment beyond the tolerance amount is not allowed and that the amount sits on the account.
Coming to the point b, because the customer is overpaying the invoice (not exact invoice amount) the invoice is still open.

Asset Accounting:

What is unplanned Depreciation and when we post it?

Unplanned depreciation (ABAA)

Use this procedure to post an unplanned depreciation manually. Ordinary depreciation reflects the deduction for wear and tear during the normal use of the asset. Unusual influences, such as damage that leads to a permanent decrease in the value of the asset, are covered by unplanned depreciation.

CO-PA

Question: Client requires the CO - PA report (KE30) match with their Profit & Loss Account ( F.01). Our doubt is the revenues we can get from SD, But other Incomes (ex : Interest recd, Excess Expenses paid recovered, Excess Taxes paid recovered etc ) and the Expenses how can we get the values in our CO - PA report. So, overall  we want the CO-PA report like Profit and loss account. How it can be achieved?
Answer:

1. For a complete reconciliation between FI P&L with COPA, the best way is to activate Account based COPA and develop reports. Also ensure that all the P&L GL accounts have to be created as Cost elements

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2. All FI postings which were not flown to CO-PA through PA transfer structure can be uploaded directly into CO-PA through T code: KEFC, but prior caution is needed while preparing the upload file where appropriate value fields are to be selected. This way we can run the KE30 report in close proximity to F.01 report.
Correct me if I am wrong in any scenario

Murthy Pillutla