Customers Down payments in SAP

Accounts Receivable down payment means advance received from the customer.
These advances are received from customer for

•    Product Sale ( Local & Exports)
•    Project sale
•    Scrap Sale
•    Service Sale

During down payment customer will deduct withholding tax (TDS). withholding tax (TDS) is required to be tracked separately.

Downpayment is a Special G/L transactions and Special G/L transactions are special transactions in Accounts Receivables that are displayed separately in the General Ledger & Sub Ledger. This is necessary for External Reporting Purpose. » Read more: Customers Down payments in SAP

Account Receivable AR Incoming Payment Process in SAP

This Process Definition document describes the process of Incoming Payment (Other than down payment) received from the Customer against an Invoice.

These Payments are received from the Customer for

•    Product Sale
•    Project sale
•    Service Contract
•    Export Sale
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Accounts Receivable Accounts Clearing in SAP

This process in Accounts clearing for Accounts Receivable is for linking of customer open transactions in customer ledger.

Following are the scenarios in Accounts clearing

•    Manual Clearing
•    Automatic Clearing

Automatic Clearing – F.13

This process clears open items from customer, vendor and G/L accounts (in particular, GR/IR clearing accounts) automatically. Clearing of transactions will be based on certain common field i.e. Sale order number and profit centre (both), in payment request, billing document etc.
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Accounts Receivable Accounts Analysis in SAP

Following are the reports available for Accounts Analysis (A/R)

1)    Customer Line item Analysis
2)    Balance Analysis
3)    Customer Evaluation

Customer Line item Analysis – FBL5N / S_ACO_52000887

Customer line item report will be available based on open items, Cleared items. All items i.e. open as well as Cleared and profit centre wise. Option is available to see transactions based on type: i.e. special G/L, Noted items, Parked items and vendor items.
A User has a facility to incorporate required fields by changing the report layout » Read more: Accounts Receivable Accounts Analysis in SAP

AR Invoices and Credit Memos

This Process Definition Document Describes the process of Revenue Accounting directly in FI .It means booking of Debit/Credit Notes  in Accounts  without sales order. i.e.Manual booking in Customer Account.

Scenarios considered for Invoices & Credit Memos (Without SO)

Debit Note (FI Invoice)  to Customer against Freight Recovery
Debit Note (FI Invoice) to Customer against Tax less charged in Invoice
Debit Note (FI Invoice)  to Customer against Octroi Recovery
Debit Note against any other Miscellaneous Recoveries
Credit Note to Customer against Price Difference
Credit Note to Customer against Tax excess charged in Invoice
Credit Note against non fulfillment of LD Clause
Credit Notes issued to Project Customer against Reimbursement of expenses incurred by them on our behalf like (Electricity/Water, Fuel etc…) » Read more: AR Invoices and Credit Memos

Customer Master in SAP

Customer Master Records are divided primarily into General data, Company code Data and Sales Organization data so that each company code and each sales organization can store its own information for doing business with customers.

Customer Master in SAP > General data

This data is applicable to every Customer in the company. The General data  includes, the Customer name, Customer address with Pin Code, E-mail address, Fax number, Language, Telephone number Etc. » Read more: Customer Master in SAP

SAP FI Accounts Receivable (AR) End User Documents

This set of documents explain in step by step manner with screenshots, how to do transaction in SAP FI Accounts Receivable (AR).

These documents can be used for power user training or end user training in the final preparation phase during implementation. » Read more: SAP FI Accounts Receivable (AR) End User Documents