Auto Clearing
Auto Clearing
Auto Clearing
accounts and GR/IR accounts (in particular, GR/IR clearing accounts) automatically.
It selects all accounts specified in the value sets that have debit and credit postings according
with customizing for SAP table TF123 via SAP transaction OB74.
Prerequisite:
-account must be managed on an pen item basis
- Accounts to be cleared must be defined in customizing
The defaulted Clearing Criteria/Rule for Additional Rules For Automatic Clearing are:
a.Criterion 1 = Technical Field ZUONR for Assignment Number.
b.Criterion 2 = Technical Field GSBER for Business Area.
c.Criterion 3 = Technical Field VBUND for Trading Partner.
Clearing in SAP refers to squaring-off open debit entries with that of open credit entries. Clearing is
allowed in GL accounts maintained on an open item basis and in all customer/vendor accounts. The
clearing can either be manual or automatic. In the case of manual clearing, you will view the open
items and select the matching items for clearing. In the case of automatic clearing, a program
determines what items need to be cleared based on certain pre-determined open item selection
criteria and proposes assignments before clearing these assigned items. Whatever the type of
clearing, the system creates a clearing document with the details and enters the clearing number
against each of the cleared open items. The clearing number is derived from the document number of
the clearing document