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Separate Bank accounts for AP and AR

Former Member
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Hi SAP Gurus,

My client want to have Separate Bank accounts for AP and AR, for different reasons, I want to know how this configured in SAP and also I want to know what is standard process followed across SAP implementations

Please Suggest Disadvantages and Advantages of Having Different Bank accounts for AP and AR..

Thanks In advance

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Thanks

Sireesha

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Former Member
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thanks

Former Member
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Will your customers being paying via direct debits and the payment run?

If your customers pay by cheque and wire then it should not be a problem.

You can use FF68 to enter the customer payments and select a different bank to that of the payment run for Vendors.

I would not recommend this as from a practical point of view all of the money will go into the AR account and the AP will be paying out money. Therefore you will need to perform daily transfers.

I think you should look at cash management, and treasury if you want to be able to report and plan on AR & AP cash.

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Former Member
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Hello,

Let me add a note on this subject.

This setup has its advantages.

A separate AR and AP bank account is really useful when you have a returned payment.

If an incoming amount arrives to your AP ( payer ) account it definately means it is a rejected transfer.

It helps a lot to reconlile the accounts.

Mark was absolutely right on the following:

This process really depends on Cash Management (Treasury).

Cash Management needs to pool the accounts so they can balance cash easily.

Good luck!

Best regards,

Endre

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Bank Determination in FBZP allows only unique entries.

Your situation requires assigning two bank accounts (account id's) to a single House Bank. If you use the same payment method for AR and AP, you will get an error "an entry already exists with the same key"

What you can do is create a dummy payment method and then assign it to your house bank, bank accounts and GL account.

The end result would look like this in FBZP > Bank Determination > Bank Accs

Hbank Pmt method Currency Acc ID Bank subaccount

CHASE C USD AP 113002

CHASE Z(Dummy)USD AR 113033

Experts, correct me if I am wrong.

Vj

JozsefSzikszai
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hi Sireesha,

how do they mean? One bank account = one house bank = one G/L account in SAP.

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