Under SAP Financial Accounting component, reconciliation account is not uncommon. Reconciliation accounts have subsidiary ledgers. Usually, transactions that have reconciliation accounts involve customers, vendors, assets and inventories.

Let’s take a look at a customers transactions. Transactions with the customers should be recorded and monitored on the customer level. Each customer represent one subsidiary ledger and directly connected with a G/L account (reconciliation account). Postings to the customer ledger update simultaneously the reconciliation G/L account.

Reconciliation account can not be posted directly. That’s the control available in the SAP system to avoid inconsistencies between the G/L balanace and customers balance.

For some reasons, some of the Clients encounter adjustments for fixed asset transactions that need to be posted directly to the G/L account. However, because the G/L account is a reconciliation account direct posting is not allowed. If it’s really necessary to post manual adjustment to the fixed asset account, I’ll give you the best tips to override the control.

Transaction Code: OAMK

Path: IMG → Financial Accounting (New) → Asset Accounting → Preparing for Production Startup → Production Startup → Set or Reset Reconciliation Accounts.

The original settings of your asset G/L accounts are set to Asset Reconciliation Account. Now, choose blank in the reconciliation account type of the G/L then save it. The system won’t create a transport request for this so you can do the change directly to your PRD system.

You can now post directly to your asset gl account. After posting the manual adjustment, you should assign the gl account to recon type asset. Otherwise, an error will occur during posting of asset transactions.