SAP Message 67720 - Check allocation of incidental costs due to modified payment date

Diagnosis
Condition-dependent incidental expenses are perhaps not allocated tothe outpayment. You should check whether all relevant incidentalexpenses appear on the incidental expenses screen.
When an outpayment is saved, all records which are allocated to thisoutpayment are assigned the payment date of the outpayment (incidentalexpenses, withholding records for items in arrears), i.e. the originalpayment date is ignored.
This affects the following incidental expenses records:

  • Records which were entered manually (not condition-dependent)

  • Condition-dependent records with a withholding indicator

  • Condition-dependent records without a withholding indicator, providing
  • that the original payment date is not after the payment date of theoutpayment (records without a withholding indicator which have a laterpayment date are not assigned to the outpayment and retain the originalpayment date).
    If the field 'Withholding lead' in the outpayment is changed to anearlier date after 'Save' has been carried out (and thus after thepayment date has been adjusted), the adjustment from the payment dateto the payment date of the outpayment carried out and saved isretained. As a result, the incidental expenses could be missing fromthe outpayment although they should have been selected as a result ofthe original payment date.
    In order to retain these expenses, the date 'withholding lead' may notbe earlier then the payment date when the data is saved or the paymentdate has to manually be set to an earlier date in the incidentalexpenses record before changing the date in the incidental expensesscreen.
    Example:
    Original payment date in incidental expenses record: 03/15/96
    Payment date of outpayment on 'Save': 03/20/96
    When this data is saved, the payment date in the incidental expensesrecord is set to 03/20/96 (necessary in order that the automatic debitposition always posts this record together with the outpayment).
    If the 'Withholding lead' date is later changed to 03/19/96, thecondition-dependent incidental expenses record which still has thepayment date 03/20/96, is no longer allocated to the outpayment even ifthe withholding indicator is set.