Posting Deferrals

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to post a deferral

Deferral

Flowchart showing manual and automatic processes for deferral, indicating no automatic calculation of charges or interest. It details the deferral amount as 1400, with the old due date on 05/01 and the new due date on 06/01.

If the business partner is temporarily unable to pay his open items, the due date is postponed. Until the date specified, the deferred item will not be dunned in a dunning run and will not be selected by the payment run. Once the deferral date has passed, the item can be dunned again and collected.

Deferral can be performed manually in the document change transaction or automatically during returns processing. You can enter a deferral date when you post the document or when you change the line items in the document. The deferral does not change the original due date. The deferral date is used instead of the due date to automatically create dunning notices or debit memos.

Diagram illustrating a deferral with an installment plan showing the original open item due on 05/01, with added charges and interest leading to a revised open item due on 06/01.

Deferral can be posted as an installment plan with only one installment. The advantage of this method is that you can calculate and post charges and interest.

Post a Deferral

ExerciseStart Exercise

Business Example

Your business partner has not yet paid his invoices.

You want to defer one receivable that has a small amount.

Note

In this exercise, the value ## should be replaced with your group number.

Task 1: Post a Deferral

Steps

  1. Start the SAP Fiori Display Account Balance app (transaction FPL9).

    1. Choose the Information tile group.

    2. Choose the Display Account Balance tile.

  2. Display the account of business partner ac240-##g.

    Defer an open receivable of your choice to the 15th of the next month.

    Initial Data

    FieldValue
    Business Partnerac240-##g
    List TypeALLES All Items
    Line Layout013 Line Item Display

    1. On the initial screen, enter the values from the Initial Data table.

    2. Choose Continue to check the basic list.

      There are three overdue items 6000/0010 displayed.

    3. Position the cursor on the most overdue item that you want to defer.

    4. Choose Menu → Environment → Document → Change.

      You access the Change Document Item screen.

    5. In the Net Due Date field, enter the current date.

    6. In the Deferral To field, enter the 15th of the next month.

    7. Choose Save.

    8. Choose Refresh to update the basic list.

      The status of the deferred item changed to Open, Not Due (yellow light).

      The status of the remaining items is still Open And Due (red light).

    9. Choose Back twice.

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