Reports by Posting Date vs. Document Date

[Former Member]

We are having a discussion in our company as to the preferable (correct) format for printing our financial reports.  I feel that Posting Date gives us a clearer picture and is the default I have used to reconcile to our CPA.  However, my supervisor is asking me to prove that theory.  I can find no documentation in SAP help that gives it in black and white.  I would like to have input from someone who has used the program for a time and has an actual guidelines for which is correct.

[kothandaraman_nagarajan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1. Posting date and document date is same for all marketing documents, unless you change it.

2. In SAP, importance is given to posting date under document setting-->general tab not for document date.

3 . As per SAP help file, document date is useful in tax report

4. Try to create simple report in both dates and compare, shows result to supervisor.

Thanks & Regards,

Nagarajan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you so much for that insight.  It helped a great deal and helped us find out exactly what was going on with our discrepancy right now.

Best regards,

Judy

[kothandaraman_nagarajan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

How did you convinced your supervisor with above reply? Please share.

Regards,

Nagarajan

[Former Member]

Hi,

Please close your thread since you got the answer.

Thanks,

Gordon

[former_member197621]

Hi,

Refer the below threads for more clarification. This has been discussed in many threads

[Former Member]

It worked very well and helped us with a struggle we have been having since day one.  It has been difficult for us to get "tech support" so your advice was very welcome.  My supervisor and I looked at the problem and found exactly where my error was.  It has been fixed and everything is fine now.  We know now what to look at is something is not correct.  Thanks again!!!!!