difference between the document date and post date

[Former Member]

HI all,

Difference between the document date and post date. what document date and post date.

Regards,

anilreddy

[Former Member]

Doc Date = The date on which you want the sales document (the sales order, for example) to become effective for sales management purposes.

[Former Member]

Posting Date = Date which is used when entering the document in Financial Accounting or Controlling.

[Former Member]

Just press F1 on each.

Rob

[Former Member]

Hi Anil,

Entry date - Date on which the document is entered in R/3

Posting date - Date on which the document is supposed to be effective

Document date - Date of the original document.

Assuming yesterday you have given a post date cheque for tomorrow and your vendor enters it into their system today. Because you have made the payment yesterday, they have accounted for your cheque in their receiving system yesterday but only entereing it today. So,

Entry date is today

posting date is tomorrow (Would be passed to downstream accounting)

Doc. date is yesterday.

In many installations, documents are generated in some legacy application (Doc date), passed on to R/3 (Entry date) and posted in R/3 (Posting date).

I may have violated core accounting rules or definitions but this is the defn from a layman perspective.

regards,

Prabhu

[Former Member]

<b>Document date (date received/sent)</b>

The date on which you want the sales document (the sales order, for example) to become effective for sales management purposes.

Use

When you want to generate a list of sales documents or sales statistics, the document date you enter determines which sales documents are selected. You can define the document date to meet the needs of your organization.

Example

For sales orders, for example, you can define the document date as the date when the order actually arrives at your offices. Alternatively, you could define it as the date when the order was written up by a field sales representative.

Procedure

The system proposes the current date. You can change it manually in the sales document.

<b>Requested delivery date of the document

Definition</b>

The proposed date by which the customer should receive delivery of the goods. The date is preceded by a date type (a "D", for example), that determines the format of the date (day, week, or month). The proposed delivery date is stored in the document header.

Use

The delivery date may be the date requested by the customer or it may be the current date, automatically proposed by the system. You can specify automatic date proposal in the table that controls header information.

Procedure

If you change this date in the header, the change does not affect the delivery dates for items that are already scheduled for delivery. You can change the dates for items either at the item level or by using the following menu choices: Edit -> Fast Change -> Delivery Date.

Example

If the date type is "D", the system uses a day format for the date (02/10/92, for example). If you use week format ("W"), the date looks like this: 23/92.

Note

When you enter a delivery date in week or month format, the system, during processing, automatically checks the factory calendar and proposes the first valid working day as the delivery date.

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Regards,

Raman.