document splitting
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Document SplittingTRANSCRIPT
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ProcedureStandard Customizing Settings
In the Implementation Guide, choose Financial Accounting (New) General Ledger
Accounting (New) Business Transactions Document Splitting.
For more information on all the Customizing settings, see also the IMG documentation of
the relevant IMG activity.
1. Classify G/L Accounts for Document Splitting
You need to classify the individual document items so that the system knows how to handle
them. You do this by assigning them to an item category. The item category is determined
by the account number. In this IMG activity, you need to assign the appropriate accounts.
2. Classify Document Types for Document Splitting
Every business transaction that is entered is analyzed during the document splitting
process. In this process, the system determines which splitting rule is applied to the
document. To enable the system to determine the splitting rule, you need to assign
a business transaction variant to each document type.
3. Define Zero-Balance Clearing Account
Here you define a clearing account for account assignment objects for which you want
to have a zero balance setting when the balance is not zero.
4. Define Document Splitting Characteristics for General Ledger Accounting
Here you specify to which document splitting characteristics document splitting applies, for
example, profit center or segment. The characteristics that you specify should be
maintained in at least one of your ledgers. You determine which characteristics are
maintained in your ledger by assigning scenarios or customer fields to your ledgers.
You also define how this characteristic is to be handled by specifying, for example,
whether you want to apply a zero balance setting, whether the field is a required entry
field, and the appropriate partner field.
5. Define Document Splitting Characteristics for Controlling
Here you specify which additional characteristics you want to apply in document splitting.
The additional characteristics are not relevant for General Ledger Accounting. Instead, they
are relevant for components in Controlling that use documents transferred from General
Ledger Accounting.
The selected characteristics are only transferred to the specified line items when the
account to which the postings are to be made can also take the characteristics.
For more information, see Subsequent Processes of Document Splitting.
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6. Define Post-Capitalization of Cash Discount to Assets
Here you define whether the cash discount that is applied in the payment of an asset-
relevant invoice should be capitalized to the asset. When you select this setting, the
cash discount amount is not posted to the cash discount account in the payment
document, but instead directly to the asset.
7. Edit Constants for Non-assigned Processes
Here you define default account assignments (for example, a default segment) for
specific line items in processes for which it is not possible to derive the correct account
assignments at the time when the document is posted. This is the case if the required
information is not yet available when the posting occurs.
8. Activate Document Splitting
In this IMG activity, you activate document splitting. The splitting method used is that
delivered by SAP as standard, which contains the splitting rules for the
different business transactions. If this splitting method does not meet your
requirements, you can first define and then select your own method in Customizing for
document splitting (see the next step).
Settings for Extended Document Splitting
Here you define your own rules for document splitting and make the necessary settings so
that the system applies the rules you defined and not the SAP standard rules.
9. Define Splitting Method
Here you define your own method for document splitting. A splitting method contains
the rules governing how the individual item categories are dealt with.
10. Define Splitting Rule
Here you define the splitting rules for document splitting. You assign one or more
business transaction variants, the account key for the zero balance setting, and the
leading item categories for cross-company code transactions to a splitting method.
11. Assign Splitting Method
Here you assign the splitting method to be used for document splitting after activation.
If you want to activate your own splitting method, replace the standard method with
your own method.
12. Define Business Transaction Variants
Here you can define business transaction variants for the business transactions in
document splitting.
Result
If you have also performed the activities described in the preparation section, you have now
made all the settings required for document splitting. The system automatically applies
document splitting to all specified business transactions.