Open items can not be cleared FZ326

Question

Hello,
I arrived on a project and learnt a former member who left created a huge issue in production. As he deleted a parallel currency depreciation area and the parallel currency type 30 in FI itself, we are currently unable to clear any open item in one company code (Internal error: doc.balance not zero / comp.code 0071 vendor XXXXXXX customer) ==> message FZ326.
SAP recommends sending a SAP consultant for 2 days to solve the issue (by deleting parallel currency values in open items to be able to clear). So we try to find a solution first.
I tried reactivating the parallel currency and recreating the dep. area to solve the problem, currently I sent this to simulation environment but now I am facing an issue with IO settlement to AUC.
The internal order has been settled to AUC without depreciation area 32 (the one for parallel currency). Now if I try to settle the remaining value on the AuC I get message:
Message no. AAPO104: Data inconsistency: Parallel depr. area is not posted
On the other hand if I try cancelling the first settlement to create new asset and AuC I get another error:
Document balance cannot be distributed when settlement is reversed
Message no. AW751
So I think I am kind of stuck here !
Does anyone have a solution at this point (activating depreciation area 32 in AuC and final asset / removing parallel currency values in documents to be able to clear in production / reversing settlement to be able to post to asset with area 32...)
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Benoit

Answer 1

Hello Schneider,
Your description consists of many things. Probably, I could not correlate the FZ326 error with the ones in Asset accounting.
However, since you are working in a real-time scenario, possibly you could explain better.
Nevertheless, check if the transaction type is limited to certain depreciation areas. If there is such a limitation, add the missing depreciation areas for the transaction type. Check if the asset that is being posted manages  all these depreciation areas.
Some information on the parallel currencies :
- The par. dep. area must have the same settings as the original area  (e.g. allowing APC).
- The par. dep. area must set for identical values take over.
- The par. dep. area must set for identical parameter take over.
- The par. dep. area must be assigned to the currency type which is defined as parallel in FI.
- The par. dep. area must be activated in the asset class (TCode OAYZ)
- If the par. dep. area is a new area in a productive environment the new area must be created for all existings assets in the company code.
When you follow these steps correctly you will not get error AAPO104 anymore. For more information, please also check SAP note 67688 about activating Depreciation Area.
The reason for error AW751 could be that the exchange rate table would have been changed since the settlement was run.
The program expects that there will be the same currency rates in the settlement AND the settlement reversal. The exchange rate table can be seen using transaction OB08.
To correct the error, to process a reversal for a settlement done earlier in the month with a different exchange rate, the only solution is to change the exchange rate table. It would be possible that a temporary change could be done when no one else is in the system, you can run the reversal and immediately change the table back to the state as before.
I hope this information helps you.
Best regards,
Suresh Jayanthi.