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Make Global Settings for Electronic Bank Statements
Chapter 9 ■ Defining the House Bank
In this activity, you will configure seven global settings for your electronic bank statement. The list of these
settings is displayed on the left side of the Change View “Create Account Symbols”: Overview screen.
Four of the settings that you will be customizing are also applicable to manual bank statements, so you
don’t need to define them again during the manual bank statement configuration:
Create Account Symbols: The accounts symbols that you create as part of your
electronic bank customizing will specify the G/L accounts and subledgers that
the bank statement transactions are posted to.
Assign Accounts to Account Symbols: This allows you to assign or map account
symbols to appropriate G/L accounts and subledgers.
Create Keys for Posting Rules: Posting keys determine the posting rules
applicable to the general ledger and subledgers.
Define Posting Rules: Posting rules represent how business transactions in
the bank statement use appropriate posting keys, document types, and posting
types. For example, incoming checks, checks out, bank transfers, bank charges,
and so on.
Problem: The accounting team at company C900 Plc wants to upload their bank
statements electronically using the defined bank communication standard. SAP supports
various electronic bank statement formats, including Multicash, BAI, BAI2, SWIFT,
and so on. It is your responsibility to define the appropriate settings needed to allow the
accounting team to upload bank statements electronically so they can clear several bank
clearing accounts and carry out automatic bank reconciliation.
To go to the screen where you will customize the electronic bank statement, follow this menu path:
IMG: Financial Accounting (New) ➤ Bank Accounting ➤ Business Transactions ➤ Payment Transactions
➤ Electronic Bank Statement ➤ Make Global Settings for Electronic Bank Statement. Or you can use
transaction code OT83.
The Determine Work Area: Entry dialog box pops up. Enter your company code in the Company Code
field on the screen and click the Enter button at the bottom of the screen or press enter on your keyboard.
The Change View “Create Account Symbols:” Overview screen is displayed (Figure 9-5). This is the initial
screen for customizing electronic bank statements. The left pane of this screen shows all the nodes you will
need to customize.
Figure 9-5. The initial screen for global settings for an electronic bank statement—Create Account Symbols
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