Financials > Inquiries > Bad debts 

Use this function to run an inquiry on existing bad debts.

Search results display in the Bad debts documents table are grouped by business partner and original open item. Data in the table is display-only but you can drilldown to the bad debt journal entry from the Action icon on each line.

You also have the option to export results to an XLS or CSV format using the Action icon menu at the top of the table.

Prerequisites

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Screen management

Header

Fields

The following fields are present on this tab :

Block number 1

Enter or select the company for the inquiry. This is the only required field. If you leave all other fields blank, the search returns bad debt documents for all sites, business partners, and dates for this company based on the selected management rule.

Select a site for the selected company. You can leave this field blank to include all company sites in the query.

Block number 2

  • Start date (field STRDAT)

Enter a date range to filter for bad debt documents whose accounting date falls within those dates.

  • End date (field ENDDAT)

 

  • Management rule (field BADBTRULE)

Select a management rule to only search for related bad debts. You can select Allto include bad debts subject to all management rules.

Block number 3

Enter or select a business partner to limit the search to those partners only.

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Tab Bad debt documents

Fields

The following fields are present on this tab :

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Grid

  • Description (field OBJDES)

This field displays for the bad debt document on the line and cannot be modified. For each line, you can drilldown to the bad debt journal entry from the Action icon menu at the beginning of the line.

This field displays for the bad debt document on the line and cannot be modified. For each line, you can drilldown to the bad debt journal entry from the Action icon menu at the beginning of the line.

  • Bad debt doc. (field BDTNUM)

 

  • Management rule (field SBADBTRULE)

This field displays for the bad debt document on the line and cannot be modified. For each line, you can drilldown to the bad debt journal entry from the Action icon menu at the beginning of the line.

  • Type (field SBADBTTYP)

 

  • Amount (field AMT)

This field displays information for the bad debt document on the line and cannot be modified. If the amount is in red, it means a reversal was performed on this document.

A reversal can only be performed for doubtful debts and impairments.

  • Accounting date (field ACCDAT)

This field displays for the bad debt document on the line and cannot be modified. For each line, you can drilldown to the bad debt journal entry from the Action icon menu at the beginning of the line.

 

 

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Bad debts

Select this action to view the bad debt journal entry for the document on the line.

 

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Error messages

The only error messages are the generic ones.

Tables used

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