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Friends,  anyone who have ever worked or read SAP FI must be aware of Line item display flag. In this post I would be discussing about the affect of checking this flag.

Transaction to display G/L account’s customizing

FS03 is the transaction through which we can view the customizing settings of a G/L account. The ‘Control’ tab in FS03 will display the status of ‘Line item display; flag. The screen shot is shot is shown below :

Transaction to display  Customer’s and Vendor’s account’s customizing

Similarly, transactions FD03 and FK03 are used to display the customizing of customer and vendor accounts. You can yourself try to find ‘Line item display’ flag in these in  transactions. Well, you will not be able to find the flag. Even I cannot find it. In fact no once can!!! Because the flag doesn’t exists for customers and vendors accounts . The catch is, customer and vendor accounts are Line item display enabled by default. You don’t have the check any flag explicitly to make then Line item display.

Effect of checking Line item display flag

Its very simple. If Line item display flag is checked for a G/L account then during posting of an FI document, secondary index tables are also populated with the line item in which the account exists. Below are the secondary index tables which are populated during posting if the FI document have a G/L account which is manage as ‘Line item display’. Remember that customer and vendor accounts are line item display by default therefore secondary index tables are always populated with customer and vendor line items.

BSIS	Accounting: Secondary Index for G/L Accounts
BSAS	Accounting: Secondary Index for G/L Accounts (Cleared Items)
BSIK	Accounting: Secondary Index for Vendors
BSAK	Accounting: Secondary Index for Vendors (Cleared Items)
BSID	Accounting: Secondary Index for Customers
BSAD	Accounting: Secondary Index for Customers (Cleared Items)

So, if we post an FI document with 2 line items in which 1st one is customer item and 2nd is G/L account item. Assuming that the G/L account is ‘Line item display’ enabled, items will be updated in below tables

BSEG : Both line items will be populated. Obviously

BSID : 1st line i.e customer line

BSIS : 2nd line i.e G/L line.

If we had vendor line instead of customer line then it would have populated in BSIK in place of BSID.

The other tables, namely BSAS, BSAK and BSAD, are relevant when an FI documents are cleared and the process is called as clearing.

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