Why need to link credit memo with invoice

Hi, gurus,
I received an AP invoice valued $2222 and then received a credit memo valued $222 about 1 week later.
Now I need to make payment.
I was told it's good to link credit memo with invoice by entering invoice number in the field "invoice reference" when creating credit memo. But I'm not sure why it's better because system will pick up both items anyway when i entered $ 2000 using f-53 to make outgoing payment.
The only reason i can think of is this link will guarantee that credit memo has the same terms of payment with invoice.
Is there any other good reasons? Any help will be appreciated.

Dear,
We need to link credit memo with invoice against for two obvious reasons
1.. Future tracking of all credit memo i-e if we gave excess credits to vendor then it was against which invoice. This will create linkage and tracking of credit memo with invoice that will be shown in FBL1N .
2..At the end of specific time period ,month or quarter ,its a normal practise to reconcile vendor balance as per SAP ledger to that of vendor's own book. At that time you will need credit memo track also that against which invoice was the credit given.
This all can be achived after posting credit memo with refrence to invoice number. Audit perpective should also be kept in mind. Hope this will help you
Regards

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