Most SAP FAQ on Electronic Account Statement

September 10, 2009 by mySAP
Filed under: SAP FI Questions

The following SAP questions are about electronic account statement questions which are often asked by users as:

1. When does the electronic account statement generate payment advice notes?

Payment advice notes are always generated only in posting area 2 if the clearing fails. SAP Note 162568 describes the postprocessing of the account statement by means of the generated payment of advice note. The generation of the payment of advice notes can also be hidden.

2. If a clearing via document- or reference document numbers not executed. This is often caused by the following:

During the import, you have not defined any or an incorrect number range for the document or the reference document numbers.
The document or reference document numbers are not delivered in the account statement or they are delivered incorrectly. In this case, you should to check the file and should request an error-free one from your bank if necessary.
The found clearing information which are saved in table FEBCL is incorrectly overwritten by a user exit.

3. Sometimes a ‘*’ is entered in FEBA transaction instead of the posted document number. That mean the ‘*’ is always entered if you do not directly post but if you create batch input sessions. FEBA transaction is not only provided for the postprocessing of account statements which have been posted directly. The postprocessing of the batch input sessions occurs in SM35 transaction .

However, sometimes a ‘*’ is entered in the generated payment advice note instead of a customer number. The SAP system attempts to find the customer via the bank detail delivered in the account statement. If this is not correctly stored in the customer master the system cannot find the customer: it then enters the ‘*’ in the account field of the payment of advice note.

If you clear via the document number, you have, however, the option to configure the interpretation algorithm 031: if this finds a document number in the note to payee, the system reads the customer number from the document.

Find more information as following SAP Notes: