13.5.1. Delete Costs/Posting

The Delete Cost and Posting process is a very important one, because it erases the accounting consequences of the costs and posting for the following documents:

• Order - Invoice - Receipt matches;

• Invoice - Receipt matches;

• Shipment;

• Production;

• Inventory Move;

• Project Consumptions;

• Vendor Invoice;

• Vendor RMA;

• Stocks Entries/Exits:

  • Internal Material Receipt;

  • Internal Use Inventory;

  • Physical Inventory.

The steps to be followed are:

1. Stop Accounting Processor (Tools -> Service Monitor -> Accounting Processor -> Stop).

2. Verify Accounting Calendar: the periods that this process will be run on must be open for all the involved document types (Performance Analysis -> Accounting Rules -> Calendar Year and Period -> Year -> Period).

3. Delete Cost and Posting: select the following parameters:

• Document Base Type: the Delete Cost and Posting process will be applied in reverse order to the document base types: first the exit documents and then the entry documents;

• Document Type: select, if necessary, one document type corresponding to the Document Base Type selected above;

• Document No: you can select a certain document number / number interval that this process will be applied to;

• Account Date: select the desired interval.

4. Start Accounting Processor (Tools -> Service Monitor -> Accounting Processor -> Start).

5. Run Accounting Processor (Tools -> Service Monitor -> Accounting Processor -> Run Now).