When you create invoices in the invoice verification, the business area is not always copied from the offsetting entries in the vendor item.
This is no error. The following concept is implemented.
The business area in the vendor item is generally not filled. Periodically, you can determine the liabilities for each reconciliation account and business area with the "Subsequent debit/credit balance sheet" (report SAPF180A, SAPF180); the necessary clearing entries in the general ledger are made with these reports.
On the precondition that the 'Business area FS' parameter is activated (Transaction OB65), the following applies:
As of Release 3.0D, the system fills the business area in the vendor item if a business area can explicitly be determined from the offsetting entries. If several business areas were used for the offsetting entries, the field in the vendor item is not filled.
If the user manually entered a business area in the transaction "Create invoice", message F5715 is issued to indicate possible problems. This message can be defined as warning message or error message in Customizing or it can be suppressed ("Message control by the user"). This corresponds to the logic when posting vendor invoices in FI.
In Releases 3.0D and 3.0E, the automatic setting of the business area in the vendor item only functions, if there is no cash discount clearing line (vendor net procedure) and no difference line in the document. This error is corrected in Release 3.0F.
As of Release 3.0F, difference lines as well as differences due to exchange rate rounding are also automatically filled with the business area, if this is unique. The cash discount clearing line (vendor net procedure) is always posted without business area.