A FI document has been archived can it be reversed through FB08

Question

A  FI document has been archived can it be reversed through FB08. I am not talking of Unarchiving.

Answer 1

Hi ,
I think we need to  enhance our understanding regarding fundamental concept for resolving the above issue  . All documents in SAP are based upon Document principal. According to which we  create number ranges for business transaction e.g.  'AB' , 'DR' , 'DZ' , 'KZ' , 'KR' using the tcode FBN1N.
Once posting has been made to the g/l account  for ( credit or debit memo , vendor or customer payment )  and a reverse entry is required. This will lead to the creation of reverse document type having different number range.
e.g Reverse MIRO is done and later GOODS RECEIPT Note is reversed in case of wrong entry.
Once the document gets reversed following are the principals which have to be followed
SAP R/3 can reverse a SAP document only if the following conditions are satisfied:
- It contains no cleared items
- It contains only vendor, customer, or G/L line items
- It was posted within the SAP FI system
- It contains only valid values, such as business areas, cost centres, and tax codes.
Please refer to the link below
http://saptrainingtutorial.com/reversal-of-sap-fi-accounting-document.html
Data  archiving is used for removing the out of date  data.
1) Archived file gets created using object using transaction AOBJ and object - FI_DOCUMNT
2) Variant gets created by defining the company code , document type , fiscal year
3) File would be deleted
Please refer to the link
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/20b94062-e43b-2c10-6c8a-ffe7a08db1a4?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
The archived data would be stored depending upon a storage strategy which would include
   a) storage cost
   b) operation cost
   d) purchase cost
    Thus the cluster tables like BKPF , BSEG  has to be taken into consideration. However, we know that these table have   secondary indexes table e.g BSKD  . Therefore the archiving  principle would be considered e.g cleared item.
In case of open item the entries need to be updated would create complexity of the scenario as there could be pitfall while creating field catalog
http://www.sap-press.de/download/dateien/1262/sappress_archiving_data.pdf
Thanks
RAJAT KUAMR SHARMA