PPV - Material ledger problem

Hi,
A few months ago one material was purchased with an unnatural price 1000 bigger than standard price (price on purchase order should be 100$ but it was 100.000$). The invoice was of course correct - 105$ and goods receipt at standard 100$.
PPV should be 5$ and the price on purchase order shouldn't normally influence PPV. Unfortunately this was not a normal case - as the invoice was posted before Goods receipt. Invoice was posted in February and Goods receipt in March. What is more - this material didn't have any stock in February - so in Material Ledger there was a stock shortage when invoice was posted. In march the balance on PPV account (PRD) was ok.=5$ for this material, but Material ledger still shows 98.005$ and moving average price of this material is huge.
I believe that stock shortage in February is the reason why Material ledger shows variances of 98.005$ instead of 5$. Do you know if stock shortage might have caused this big variance? How can I get rid of it now? I cannot reverse purchase, invoice and GR as february and march are closed for MM.
I thought of using MR22 and posting -98.000$. This will lower the variances on this material (PRD) but also post value to Gain/loss on revaluation account (UMB). This should repair the situation in Material ledger, but spoil everything on FI accounts. In order to fix it in FI I thought of manually reversing this postings (done in MR22) on the same accounts (PRD and UMB) but in FB50 without reference to material. This will result in balance of 5$ on PRD and 0 on UMB and material ledger will show only 5$ variance for this material.
Is this approach correct. Maybe you have some other suggestions?
Hope you can help me,
Kind regards,
Karol

Hi,
please create a service message to SAP on component CO-PC-ACT and the support will take care of the inconsistencies.
best regards, Udo

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