Accounting Editing Options
Purpose
‘Accounting Editing Option’ functionality simplify user to maintain those parameters which user need not to set again and again for the SAP screens in order to post/display the documents. User can modify Accounting Editing Option settings at any time as per their requirement and this functionality helps to save the time as user don’t need to change setting again and again. All options are seems to very simple but they are really helpful.
There are seven different tabs for this option but this document covers only document display options.
Here we go:
Menu Path
Use the following menu path for this transaction:
SAP Menu ==> Accounting ==> Financial Accounting ==> General Ledger ==> Environment ==> User Parameters ==> Editing Options
Transaction Code for Accounting Editing Options
FB00
Procedure
Start the transaction using the menu path or transaction code.
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Accounting Editing Options – Doc. Display - Document display tab controls the settings related to display of accounting document.
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In the above screen, there are seven tabs named Document entry, Doc. Display, Open Items, Line Items, Credit Mgt., P.adv, Cash Jrnl.
This document explains functionality of Doc. Display tab only.
Line layout variants for document display
Line Layout - This option is used to control fields to display for line items. Settings for this can be assessed by
SPRO==>IMG==>Financial Accounting==>Financial Accounting Global Settings==>Document==>Line Item==>Define Line Layout for Document Change/Display
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Fields for line Item A1 can be seen in Figure (6) and for AA in Figure (8). This can be noticed that Line Item display for Figure (6) and Figure (8) is different.
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Fields can be controlled with the help of line layout.
Display documents using…
Reference no.
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Document can be displayed with the help of t-code FB03.
If Reference no. field at FB00 is checked then Reference no. field will be added at FB03 screen. (Figure: 10) else reference no. filed will be suppressed (figure:11). This kind of setting can be helpful to display document with the help of reference no.
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Reference no. field is displayed in the above screen shot when Reference no. option is checked at FB00.
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Reference no. field is not displayed in the above screen shot when Reference no. option is checked at FB00.
Additional display options – These options are used to display documents in different screen layouts.
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Document Overview – Document overview is having three options namely Classic display, ALV Classic List and ALV Grid Control.
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Classic Display: Classic Display option display document in fixed field layout. User need to drill down each document line to view accounting information. Below is the screen of classic display.
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ALV Classic List: This option can be used to customize document layout fields with the help of use sort, subtotal functions. This display is not applicable for complex postings and park with reference entries. Below screen shows ALV classic list document.
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ALV Grid Control: This option can be used to display document with the help of customized documents. Sort, subtotal function can be used to check document.
This display is applicable to Complex Postings and Park with Reference entries as well. Below screen shot shows ALC Grid Control document.
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Display cross-company code transaction
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This option is used to display line items of cross-company. If this option is not checked then SAP will not display Company Code specific document.
Complete cross company transaction is displayed (Figure: 18), when option is checked. Company code specific items are displayed when option is not checked (Figure:19)
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Relationship Browser in Separate Mode
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This indicator is used to control the setting of screen for relationship browser. If this option is checked then SAP will display relationship browser in new window else in the same window.
Example - Relationship Browser option is checked.
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Data is shown in SAP Screen 2 window.
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Data is shown in SAP Screen 2 window.
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Data is shown in SAP Screen 4 window, which is another window.
Display: Tax Data According to Reporting
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This option is used to determine the display of the tax base amounts and the tax percentage rates in the display window as per reporting.
Normally the base amounts are displayed exactly as they are in the database (table BSET). Only the tax amounts have a +/- sign corresponding to the debit/credit indicator. In the following cases, these details can be different to the display in the tax on sales and purchases report:
Example: Tax related entry in BSET table:
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When this option is not checked
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Negative sign is displayed for tax base amount with 451010 GL account.
When this option is checked
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Negative sign is displayed for tax base amount with 411010 GL account. This setting only affects the tax data display in ALV list option.
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