SAP Business One Financial Accounting

Financial Accounting Basics in SAP Business One

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The financial accounting module within SAP’s enterprise resource planning system for small business, Business One (also referred to as SAP B1), is simple to configure and easy to use. All business transactions are recorded in the company’s financial accounting system (often referred to as “the books”). It is important to understand the flow of data within the financial accounting system and, if your position requires, report business results to the company owners each period.
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Automatic Journal Entries in the Sales Process
These are the documents in the sales process that create automatic journal entries and therefore affect the accounting system: the delivery, the A/R invoice, the incoming payment and the deposit.
Note: The delivery only creates an accounting posting if you are using perpetual inventory.
A/R Invoice Journal Entry
In SAP Business One, a journal entry is automatically posted for many documents during the sales, purchasing and inventory processes. Now let us assume for
In a non-perpetual inventory system, within the sales process example, the A/R Invoice automatically creates the following journal entry:
  • „ There is a debit to the customer account for the total price of the sale
  • „ There is a credit to the tax account for sales tax and a credit to the revenue account for the sales price (excluding tax)

„The Account Balance
The transaction summary or the balance of a certain G/L account or business partner is the initial information the accounting system can provide about the business. With every journal entry transaction, a certain account increases and another decreases in value. The result is the recording of balancing debit side and credit side postings.

The effect on the account balance would be:

  • Assets, Expenses, and Drawings accounts are generally in debit
  • Liability, Revenue, and Capital (Equity) accounts are generally in credit
Financial Settings
The default G/L accounts to be used when transactions are created during the different business processes, such as sales, purchasing and inventory are configured when SAP Business One is being implemented. You will define default G/L accounts related to a specific business processes in the G/L Account Determination window.„ You also define control accounts that link the business partner sub-ledger accounts to the general ledger.
GL Account Determination
When items are used in sales, purchasing, inventory transactions, there are 2 options for the GL account determination. The first is the traditional default method. The second is the advanced G/L account determination. In the traditional solution the system looks for the default accounts based on the account determination set in the item master data. The advanced solution provides a centralized matrix to determine rules for assigning G/L accounts in journal entries according to a predefined (closed) list of criteria.

Control Accounts
The control accounts are the links between the Business Partner’s sub-ledger and general ledger. They are the Accounts Receivable (A/R) for the Sales process and Accounts Payable (A/P) for the Purchasing procedures.

Chart of Accounts
The Chart of Accounts presents the complete financial status of the company. It reflects the accumulation of the customers’ and vendors’ transactions in their balances within the receivable and payable control accounts.

How The Software System Knows the Values
The Business Partner Master Data balances are represented in the chart of accounts in the receivable and payable control accounts that accumulate the customer and vendor transactions in their balances. In an A/R Invoice the system “˜knows’ the value to be credited and debited in the automatic journal entry using the default price list as defined in the customer master record and the item price in this price list. In a Delivery the system “˜knows’ the value to be credited and debited in the automatic journal entry using the item cost value that is calculated automatically, behind the scenes, according to the valuation method chosen for the item.

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