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2890661 - Error: General Ledger Account Alias A-1500 Does not Exist

Symptom

You are trying to post an Expense Report fetched from Concur and it fails with error, "General ledger account alias A-1500 does not exist".

Payment Type = CBCP(Personal).

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Concur View.
  3. Go to the Expense Reports sub-view and search for expense report XX[represents Expense Report Id].
  4. Press Post.

Error: "General Ledger Account Alias A-1500 Does not Exist".

Cause

A-1500 is a default GL Alias delivered by SAP . The error message is thrown when A-1500 account determination configuration in fine tuning is missing.

Resolution

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
  2. Access the Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination fine tune activity. 
  3. Press Edit Account Determination Groups.
  4. Under General Ledger select Groups for Other Income.
  5. Maintain A-1500 Group ID and assign a G/L account.*

*This GL-Alias A-1500 can be configured with the GL Account according to your business.

See Also

2901216 - How to Restore Default Account Determination Group

3091179 - Concur Expense Report Error: General ledger account alias does not exist

Keywords

Concur, General Ledger Account Alias, A-1500 , KBA , concur , general ledger account alias , a-1500 , AP-FMD-EER , Business ByDesign: External Expense Report , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions