AA834 encountered during settlement KO88

Question

Hi,
At the time of settlement with investment order via KO88, we are getting the following error.
AA834 "You cannot use this transaction
type to post to this asset".
After investigation, we suspect that this might be due to downpayment we've just made to PO that belongs to the order.
In our business process, these are POs assigned with insvestment orders which end of the month should be settle to AUC asset.
Appreciate if someone could enlighten me what has gone wrong as the down payment is made against the PO and we do not want to capitalise down payment to AUC. However, system check for these down payment since during order settlement. This has jeopordised our month end process.
Many thanks.
Regards,
Firefly

Answer 1

Hi Firefly,
If I understand the situation correctly, you have an investment order hence the Internal order and the AUC is linked and the settlement happens automatically to the AUC on executing KO88.
As per SAP standard flow, the downpayments posted will get capitalised to AUC on settlement and the error message cannot be controlled. I can suggest 2 way out -
1 - If the Internal order has not been posted before, delete the investment profile and make it a normal overhead internal order. Settle the the Internal Order manually by excluding the downpayment amount.
2 - Do the following configuration and capitalise the downpayment -
     In OAYB, select transaction type 15 and enter the asset class of the AUC to which the settlement is to be made.
We had gone with the 2nd option and addition in AO90, we gave a different GL account in "Acquisition: down payments" than the one given in "Acquisition:Acquis. and production costs". This helps us to monitor and segregate the downpayment amounts capitalised and also ensure that it is cleared when F-54 is done.
Hope this clarifies the issue you are facing.
Thanks and Regards,
anit