PO Invoice price difference handling - accounting issues

Hi,
I am working for a distribution company that is selling right away the goods it bought. Therefore we first receive the goods before creating a PO and then receive the invoices from our suppliers later on.
Very often, there are differences between the PO and Invoices and as per SAP standard configuration, any price differences between PO and invoice are booked straight into cost of sales while quantity differences are kept on balance sheet level.  However, we would like to be able to treat the price and quantity differences the same way (i.e. on balance sheet level and so not directly in Cost of Goods Sold).
Do you know if there is a way to do so?
Also, we would like to be able to distinguish the different type of errors that resulted into differences between the PO and invoice, and create different type of errors in order later to make different reports and analyses the causes. Can we do that with the SAP MM and FI/CO functions? How?
Thank you in advance,
Regards,
Vic

Proceed with posting Invoice, System blocks the Invoice. You need to manually remove the block for further processing.

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