FSI0 - Drill Down Reports for Account Balance Analysis

Question

Any orientation on this issue will be greatly appreciated.
These are the steps I did to create a new Drill-Down Report for my customer.
1. Created and modified a new Form based on the Form for the Financial Statement Analysis 0SAPBLNCE-04 (Periodic Actual vs Actual) using Transaction FSI4 (Create) and FSI5 (Change)
2. Created and modified a new Report with reference to the Form I just created using transactions FSI1 (Create) and FSI2 (Change)
3. I select "Expand: Completely" to see all Account Balances
3. All the totals match between the Original Standard Report and the new report I just created.
4. On both reports, when I select a Balance and then select the GOTO \ Line Items to get the list of documents I get the following results:
==> Most of the cases (I would say probably 80% of the cases) the Account Balance I selected matches with the Total of Line Items that is displayed when I do the GOTO \ Line Items
==> In some cases (just a few) the Account Balance does not match at all with the totals of Line Items that is displayed when I do the GOTO \ Line Items
Can somebody explain why ? Shouldn't the totals match all the time since I am specifically selecting a balance to see all its line items? Where are the missing line items?
Since these are just a few cases my customer is okay with it but he would like to hear a logic explanation why the Account Balance and its line items do not match on this report.

Answer 1

Hello,
There is a possibility that you have activate line item display for some of the accounts at a later stage. Meaning that earlier postings were not be shown for the earlier postings but only totals will be made available. Therefore, obviously there is bound to be difference between line item report and totals report.
You need to identify which accounts are being changed with line item display at a later stage.
In case if you forget to keep GL Line item display for an account, but the posting are already made the following steps you would required to get the line item display retrospectively.
1. Note that you are NOT required to make the balance of that GL account to ZERO. Please do not confuse with Open Item Management.
2. Put the check box line item display for the account in FS00. Make sure you are entering right company code.
3. Block the account for posting in COA Segment and Company Code Segment in FS00
4. Go to SA38 and run program RFSEPA01 (Give correct GL Account and Company Code)
5. Now, remove the block you kept on the GL Account in FS00.
This will reset the line item display retrospectively.
Hope this will solve your problem.
Regards,
Ravi