Purchase Order Accruals Review - All accruals are reviewed

[Gabor5]

Hello SAP Experts,

I am working with scope item 2VB – Purchase Order Accruals in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and encountered an issue.

In the "Review Purchase Order Accruals" app, all accruals are immediately showing under "Review Finished".
There are no accruals listed as "Unreviewed", even though we expected them to require manual review first.
(Please see the attached screenshot for reference.)

We have already configured the workflow for Purchase Order Accruals Review as per the test script, but this issue still occurs.

Has anyone experienced this before?
Could it be related to the workflow conditions, default behavior, or maybe missing configuration?

Any advice would be highly appreciated.

[Chuma · Accepted solution]

Hi @Gabor5 ,

Thanks for the detailed explanation and the screenshot.

What you’re experiencing is actually normal behavior in S/4HANA Public Cloud for scope item 2VB. If the system doesn’t detect any significant deviation during the automatic accrual proposal (for example, if the PoC is 100% and matches the expectation), it automatically marks the review as “Finished” without needing a manual intervention, even if the workflow is properly set up. That’s why everything is showing under “Review Finished” instead of “Unreviewed”.

From experience, a few things usually cause this. If your accrual method or profile doesn’t have specific thresholds configured for deviation, or if the thresholds are set too loosely, the system just accepts the proposal automatically. Also, in the workflow configuration, if there are no strict conditions telling the system to hold items for manual review (like a minimum deviation required), it will skip the manual step.

One easy way to test this is to manually change the Revised Percentage of Completion (PoC) slightly, like setting it to 76.92% instead of 100%, and then check if the item appears under “Unreviewed.” That would confirm that the workflow itself is working but simply isn’t being triggered under current conditions.

SAP actually documents this under their Purchase Order Accruals guide. You can check it here: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD/2vb_purchase_order_accruals (search for "Review Status" or "Thresholds" for more details)..

Hope this helps clarify it.

Regards

Chuma

[Gabor5 · Accepted solution]

Hello Chuma,

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, the link doesn't work. Could you please review it and send it to again?

Regards,

Gabor

[Chuma · Accepted solution]

Hi @Gabor5, Thanks for the feedback! You’re right, that earlier link doesn’t open properly. To find the official SAP guide, 

To find the official SAP guide, please:

1. Go to SAP Help Portal

2. Search for: "2VB Purchase Order Accruals"

3. Open the Finance – Purchase Order Accruals section.

4. Then look for topics like Review Status, Thresholds, and Workflow Settings.

Regards,

Chuma