Closing Operations in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Accounting in fico

Purpose

In this process you carry out year-end closing in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.

You go through the following steps:

• Generation of account statements: To check posted documents within a period.
• Generation of balance confirmations: To check the number of receivables and payables.
• Individual value adjustments using the special general ledger technique.
• Valuation of open items in foreign currency including the posting of the gains or losses due to exchange rate fluctuations.
• Sorted lists of open items with regrouping of items for changed reconciliation account, vendors with a debit balance and customers with a credit balance according to remaining life.

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Prerequisites

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Process Flow

You can find the data for this process under .

1. 
   
Correspondence: Entering Invoices
2. 
   
Correspondence: Generating Account Statements
3. 
   
Correspondence: Generating Balance Confirmations
4. 
   
Individual Value Adjustments: Entering Invoices
5. 
   
Making Individual Value Adjustments for Doubtful Receivables
6. 
   
Individual Value Adjustments: Displaying Customer Line Items
7. 
   
Valuating Open Items in Foreign Currency: Entering Invoices in Foreign Currency
8. 
   
Valuating Open Items in Foreign Currency: Posting Exchange Rate Differences
9. 
   
Valuating Open Items in Foreign Currency: Displaying Documents
10. 
    
Allocation of Receivables and Payables According to Remaining Life: Entering Invoices
11. 
    
Allocation of Receivables and Payables According to remaining Life: Executing Programs
12. 
    
Allocation of Receivables and Payables According to Remaining Life: Generating Postings