SAP Process: Effect of Billing Document

January 1, 2010 by CRM
Filed under: Sale and Distribution

When you save the billing document in SAP, the system automatically generates all the required documents for accounting as well. In accounting, the SAP R/3 system carries out a debit posting on the customer receivables account and a credit posting on the revenue account.

The accounting document in SAP contains all the completed postings in financial accounting (SAP FI) module that refer back to pricing in Sale and Distribution (SD), for example, the receivable on the customer account or the obtained net sales and taxes on the relevant G/L accounts.

When you save the billing document in SAP, further documents for accounting can be automatically generated by the system, for example, for the components Controlling (CO), profitability analysis, market segment analysis (CO-PA) or consolidation (FI-LC).

When the billing document is posted in SAP system, the following also occurs: