The ‘One-time vendor account’ is specifically designed for vendors used for a single transaction or a limited number of transactions. It prevents the vendor number from being reused for other payments, maintaining clean master data and control, which aligns perfectly with the requirement of a one-time service.

The fiscal year carry forward for balance sheet accounts creates a single summarized posting that transfers the closing balance of the old fiscal year to the opening balance of the new fiscal year. It does not post individual line items, which preserves the audit trail of the original transactions in the prior year.

In parallel accounting, the leading ledger (usually 0L) is the primary ledger. Non-leading ledgers are assigned different accounting principles. Document splitting rules, often based on items like profit center or segment, determine how the values from a single business transaction are split and posted to the different ledgers to reflect the varying accounting treatments.

Tolerance groups for employees define the maximum payment differences (in amount or percentage) a user is allowed to post or clear without requiring a separate adjustment posting. This setting is crucial for internal controls and is found in the Line Items section of the global settings for Customer/Vendor Accounts.

Posting an unmatched payment to a customer clearing account (often a general ledger account, not the customer sub-ledger) is the standard method. This clears the bank account and holds the funds in a suspense account. Once the correct invoice is identified, you can then clear the open item in the clearing account against the customer’s invoice.

The ‘Individual Payment’ indicator, when set, instructs the Automatic Payment Program to create one payment document per invoice line item for the selected payees. This overrides other grouping logic like payment method or due date, which is necessary for certain country-specific payment practices or vendor agreements.

Reconciliation accounts are designed to have their balances updated only via postings to their associated sub-ledger accounts (like customer or vendor). A direct manual posting to a reconciliation account (via FB50, F-02, etc.) bypasses the sub-ledger, breaking the inherent reconciliation link and causing a mismatch. This is a common audit finding and process error.

While tools like F.01 show raw balances, the Report Painter/Report Writer is the primary tool for designing complex, formatted financial statements. It allows you to define rows (calculations, accounts, texts) and columns (periods, years, company codes) with high flexibility, and is integrated with the Financial Statement Version for official reporting.

The account assignment category (e.g., Asset, Cost Center, Project) on the PO item dictates how the received goods or services are accounted for. If it is assigned to a cost object (like a cost center), the goods receipt creates a FI document (crediting GR/IR, debiting consumption). If it’s assigned to a stock account (like inventory), the posting is purely in Materials Management (MM) until the invoice is received or the material is consumed.

The ‘One-time vendor account’ is specifically designed for vendors used for a single transaction or a limited number of transactions. It prevents the vendor number from being reused for other payments, maintaining clean master data and control, which aligns perfectly with the requirement of a one-time service.0