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1985009 - Purchase Accounts for Procured Stock/Inventories

Symptom

For countries, such as Italy, France, and Spain, you are legally required to document the costs of procured stock material as well as any variations of purchased stock at any point during a fiscal year.

But you are unable to see the Purchase Account tab for Inventores subledger of Account Determination Profile ABC for a particular Chart of Accounts.

Reproducing the Issue

    1. Go to Business Configuration work centre.
    2. Navigate to Implementation Projects view.
    3. Select the relevant Project and choose Open Activity List.
    4. Select the Fine-Tune phase.
    5. Choose the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination list.
    6. Navigate to sub-view Account Determination and select Inventories.
    7. Select the Account Determination Profile ABC.

You see that Purchase Account tab is not available.

Cause

Since you have not maintained Assign countries to profile for your Account Determination Profile ABC of the Chart of Accounts in question, This is why Purchase Account tab is not available.

Resolution

Follow below steps to maintain Assign countries to profile against the Account Determination Profile ABC.

  1. Go to Business Configuration work centre.
  2. Navigate to Implementation Projects view.
  3. Select the relevant Project and choose Open Activity List.
  4. Select the Fine-Tune phase.
  5. Choose the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination list.
  6. Navigate to sub-view Account determination and select Inventories.
  7. Select the Account Determination Profile ABC.
  8. Choose Assign Countries to Profile.
  9. Choose Add Row.
  10. Maintain either France or Italy or Spain against Account Determination Profile DEF.
  11. Choose Ok.
  12. Choose Save and Close.

You should be able to see the Purchase Account tab now.

Keywords

KBA , chart of accounts - purchase account , AP-ACC , Business ByDesign: Financial Accounting , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions