FI_AR

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Accounts Receivables

1. Define Acct group with screen layout (Customers)

Tcode: OBD2
Explanation:
When creating a customer master need to specify customer account group
Customer account group determine:
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The interval for customer account number

Whether the customer number is assigned internally by the system or
externally by the user
Whether it's a onetime account
Which fields are ready for input when creating & changing customer
master (Field status)

1. Enter Accounting clerk identification code for customers

Tcode: SPRO FA ARAP CA MR Preparation for creating customer

master record Enter accounting clerk identification code

Explanation:
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Enter identification code (01) & clerk name for a company code (100)
Code entered in customer master record
Helpful in evaluation

1. Define Industries

Tcode: Tcode: SPRO FA ARAP CA MR Preparation for creating

customer master record Define industries

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Define industry
Specify what industry a business partner belongs to by entering industry
key in customer master record.
Helpful in evaluation, e.g. generate customer list for a industry

1. Create number range for customer accounts

Tcode: XDN1
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Can create internal or external number range.

Internal : System automatically allot the number
External: User assigns the number in the specified range.

1. Assign number range to Customer Acct group

Tcode: OBAR
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We assign number ranges created in (XDN1) to customer account group

(OBD2). Thus customer number for this customer a/c group can be
selected from this range

1. Create Recon account for Customers

Tcode: FS00

1. Define Alternative Recon Account for Down Payment

Tcode: OBYR

1. Create customer master record

Create Customer Master : FD01

Display Customer Master : FD03
Display Customer Master : XD03
Display Customer Master : VD03
Display customer Credit Management : FD33
Change customer credit management : FD32
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Choose the Central data screen and enter the following data:
Total amount
Individual limit
Currency
Enter the currency for the total limit and maximum individual limit.
The credit limit is managed in a separate credit limit currency, which you
determine for each control area. This currency is separate from the local
(company code) currency. To update the credit limit data, the system
converts the amounts. This has no effect on the updating of the transaction
figures or on any postings.
You can enter the central data in any currency you choose, independently
of the currencies of the control areas.
- The fields in the section entitled Current credit limit assigned show to
what extent (as a percentage) the customer has exhausted the amount of
credit granted to him and in which credit control area the maximum
individual credit limit has been exhausted to the greatest extent.
- The Last general info field displays when the last information on the
customer was obtained.
Now access the Customer Credit Management Change: Status screen and
enter the individual credit limit for the customer.

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1. Posting a Customer Invoice

Tcode: FB70
Explanation:

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Allows entering of customer invoices

If one time customer, required to enter customer name & address also

1. Posting a credit memo with ref. to Invoice

Tcode: FB75
Explanation:
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Business scenario: Customer overcharged & requested refund.

1. Posting customer incoming payment manually

Tcode: F-28
Explanation:
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Post customer incoming payment manually & clear OI

1. Displaying customer account balances.

Tcode: FD10N

1. Displaying and changing line items in a customer account

Tcode : FBL5N
Explanation:

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Report can be exported to excel/ word

Can display / change line items
Can set filter to define additional search criteria for documents displayed.
E.g. doc type

1. Manual Clearing

Tcode: F-32
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Some customer invoices & payments received from customers, balance

not zero. Use to clear these transactions. Clearing document generated
with no real posting

1. Clear customer down payment against customer invoice

Tcode: F-39
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For installment payment of vendor invoice select payment term Z910

To block 2nd installment : Put payment block in maintain terms of
payment of 2nd installment

1. Customer Invoices

Park Customer Invoice : FV70

Post parked customer invoice : FBV0
Enter Customer invoice : F-22
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Similar to FB70

Post customer incoming payment : F-52

Post incoming payments on both customer/ vendor

Allows to clear OI
Doc type : DZ ( Customer payment)
Customer Down Payment request : F-37
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Customer Down Payment (customer advance) : F-29

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Use spl GL indicator, thus post down payment to a diff GL a/c & not
normal GL recon a/c
Doc type : DZ ( Customer payment)
Click request button to provide previously entered down payment request
as reference
System post a DP ( customer advance) & clears one DP request

1. Display blocked SD documents / Customer Invoices

Tcode: VKM1
Table VBUK ( VKM1 display table)

1. Customer Dunning Notices

Tcode: FI50
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A customer does not settle dues on time. Payment reminders to customers

are known as dunning notices
Can send dunning notices to individual customers or a list of customers
Program determine: Customers to be dunned. Dunning level. Relevant
dunning notice.

1. Customer due date analysis

Tcode: S_ALR_87012168

Due date analysis of customers (Invoices, credit memos)

1. Down Payment Received from customer

Tcode: OBXR
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Down payment define GL acct to which posting is made in case of down

payment received from customer, instead of normal customer receivable
acct (RECON A/C)

1. Reason Codes:

Reason Codes: OBBE

Map Reason codes to GL Accounts: OBXL
Reason codes table: T053R
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Define reason code for Overpayment/Underpayment

Classification of Payment Differences for underpayment and overpayment
in AR line items.

With reason code, you can define whether the difference should be charged off to a G/L
account or if a residual posting should be made