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hi

please give me detailed documentation of letter of credit in sap,what is the difference between bills of exchange and leeter of credit

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Hi Kishor,

*Process Of Letter of Credit for Imports *

1. The Clearing agent ask for amount, the person who receive the product will give Letter of Authority to Clearing Agent. The clearing agent move to bank and take check.

For this purpose, we just issue LA.

2. Prepare Purchase for the Vendor from whom we are going to receive the product. There may be 2 or more Vendors.

1. Product cost to be transferred to Vendor A

2. Freight or Other Charges to Vendor B

3. Customs Duty and Others to Vendor C

Tcode : Me21n

3. First We have to pay Customs Duty to Commissioner of Customs after LA issued.

Entry : Customs Clearing a/c Dr

Cess on Custom a/c Dr

CVD Clearing a/c Dr

Cess on CVD a/c Dr

Special CVD a/c Dr

Vendor C a/c Cr.

T-code :MIRO or YMIROOTH

4. Cenvat credit for the product will be taken by person who handling Excise in that company

Entry : Cenvat Clearing a/c Cr.

RG23A Part II a/c Dr.

5. Clearing of Cenvat Credit

Entry : Cenvat Clearing a/c Dr.

CVD clearing a/c Cr.

Cess on CVD a/c Cr.

Special CVD a/c Cr.

6. After Bank payment they will transfter to us

Entry : Vendor a/c - Dr.

Bank a/c - Cr.

*Bills Of Exchange Concept In AP *

About bills of exchange concept in Accounts Payable.

Bills of exchange may be defined as a commitment subscribed by your customer to pay a certain amount on a given date upon presentation of the bill of exchange. They can be used to materialize installment payments.

For example, you have accepted that your customer pays the invoice amount in 3 monthly installments of 1000 USD each. You will issue 3 bills of exhange of 1000 usd each and maturing in month in month m, m1 and m2. The bills of exchange will be sent to your customer for acceptance(customer signs them).

Once accepted they will be returned to you. You will have to post accounting entries. But note that even though the accepted bills of exchange can be considered as payment, you cannot clear the outstanding customer invoice until the bills are effectively paid at maturity date. You then have to post the bills of exchange as a special GL transaction.

Again once you have received the bills of exchange you may decide to discount them right away with your bank and this is done with or without recourse. Depending on the option choosen, accounting entries are different. by discounting the bills you receive payment of the bill and this can be used to clear the outstanding customer invoice.

But note that until the bill is finally paid by the customer at maturity date you remain liable. You account for this liability by making postings which will show the discounted bills of exchange as a contingent liability. They do not show in the balance sheet itself but appear in an appendix of the balance sheet.

hope this helps you

Regards,

Greeshma

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Hi

Letter of Credit also Called as in SAP Nothing But Bills of Exchange

Do with same Configuration of BOE (Billes of Exchange)