Diagnosis
You have entered a negative book value as goodwill or a positive bookvalue as negative goodwill; or you have manually changed anautomatically-created goodwill entry.
This has the following effects:

• The amortization for the value entered occurs on the basis of the
definition of goodwill (as positive or negative goodwill)

• The effect on actual goodwill is based on the exact opposite of
the goodwill definition.
In certain situations, it can be useful to have such a setting - forexample when you want to manually clear the amortization that wascomputed by the system.

Procedure
Check whether there is a particular reason for the variance between thegoodwill definition and the debit/credit signs.
If necessary, change the setting.