Describing Posting Levels and Document Types

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe the concept of document types

Posting Levels and Document Types

Posting Levels

Posting Level – Key Points

Posting levels identify the origin of data for each consolidation process.
With the help of the posting level dimension, you can report on the data for each consolidation process separately.
It's not possible to define your own posting levels,because posting levels are built-in to the solution.

This figure gives an overview of the posting levels, to which kind of data and to which entity they refer.

Note

When launching the Manual Posting apps in the data monitor, the user is free to select various document types, and therefore, posting levels.

Currency translation applies primarily to 00, but may apply to 0C, 01, and 10.

Document Types

Document Types – Key Points

Document types are assigned to posting levels and document number ranges.
Document types are more detailed than posting levels and are used to identify the type and source of data.
Posting levels and document types together provide the ultimate audit trail.
Document types are off-the-shelf, and you can create your own.
Every posting record is assigned to a document type with user and date/time of entry information.

This screenshot shows a report which contains in the columns both, the Posting Level dimension and the Document Type dimension. As a consequence you can easily analyze at which step in the consolidation process the relevant data set was stored in the ACDOCU table.

Summary

Posting levels identify data origin for each consolidation process step.
Document types provide detailed identification of transaction type and source.
Posting levels are built-in; document types are customizable. Both together are used for audit trails.
Combined posting levels and document types ensure complete transaction traceability.