SAP Note 13984 - MB1B: Manual entry of account for transfer postings

Symptom:

1. When you enter an account in the case of a transfer posting, this account will not be accepted by the system, because the system always uses the G/L account defined via the automatic account determination function.

2. When you enter an account assignment (such as a cost center, an order, a project...) in the case of a transfer posting, this account assignment will not be accepted by the system, because the system always uses the account assignment determined automatically.

Cause and prerequisites

In the case of transfer postings, postings are carried out from one stock account to another. Since the stock account is taken from the material master record, these accounts cannot be entered directly.

In adddition, it is not possible to enter an account assignment for inventory postings. This is the reason why any account assignment entered manually will not be considered by Financial Accounting.

Any postings to the account for expenditure or income resulting from transfer postings (account key AUM) can only be automatically assigned to the relevant account. You cannot manually enter an account assignment for these postings.

However, it is useful to be able to manually enter the account for expenditure or income from transfer postings and/or an account assignment for this posting. For this case, however, the indicator "Check account assignment" is not set.

Solution
Please maintain table T156X using transaction SM31.

Example for movement type 309 (as of Release 3.0F)

MvT Val.update Qty update S MvT Cns Value str. Cn Acct modif Check
309 X X WA04 6 X

Example for movement type 309 (prior to Release 3.0F)

MvT Val.update Qty update S MvT Cns Value str. Cn Acct modif Check
309 X X WA04 5 X

Note: 1. This change is only possible for movement types which use
the value string WA04.
2. This change only takes effect if the system actually
creates a posting line "expenditure/income from transfer
postings".

Additional key words

Account assignment, stock transfer, tranfer posting, MB1B, MB11, AUM