Introduction

You use this component to post documents in Financial Accounting (FI) via a correction layer and
suspense postings. You transfer documents from source systems into FI. In these documents, there can
be errors in the header or in the line item data, for example, an incorrect company code or an incorrect
balance. To perform these checks and automatically correct errors before posting, you can use the
functions of Error Correction and Suspense Accounting (ECS).
The ECS is part of FI. It is an intermediate layer between the files of your source system and the FI
postings.
Posting to a suspense account
You use the Error Correction System (FIN_GL_ERR_CORR) business function.
You can use this function to post incorrect documents as ECS items to a suspense account.
ECS posting
You use the Posting Documents and Auto Correction function to post documents using auto correction
methods, document balancing, and document splitting. The system corrects the errors. The result in FI is
either a regular posting, or a suspense posting, if the error could not be resolved. This information is
then stored in an ECS item.
The system creates an ECS item for each line item of an FI document with the following ECS-relevant
errors:
In the case of severe errors, for example, in the header of the document
The auto correction processor cannot correct the error, or the setup of the auto correction step
requires an ECS item
Error in the document balancing
In an ECS item, you can see information about the relevant error, the item status, the current operator,
or the corresponding posted or correction FI document number, if there is one. You can drill down to
the posted FI document or the correction FI document. You display and edit ECS items with the ECS
workplace. The copy of the original and the corrected line items are also stored in extra tables with the
same ECS item key.

ECS workplace
You use the Post processing and Manual Correction function to display and edit the ECS items created in
the ECS system. You can manually correct errors and post the corrected documents into FI.
ECS reporting
You use the Reporting for ECS function to display statistics and filtered data for ECS items from the ECS
system.
T code ACC_ECS_LIST - List of ECS Items (All Criteria)

Configuration
You can find the Customizing for the Error Correction System business function under Financial
Accounting Financial Accounting Global Settings Document Error Correction and Suspense
Accounting or under Financial Accounting (New) Financial Accounting Global Settings (New)
Document Error Correction and Suspense Accounting.
To use the business function effectively, you have to make settings in the Customizing activities under
Error Correction and Suspense Accounting General Settings:
Define ECS Environments
Definition and Derivation of Error Categories
Define Error Messages
Define Error Categories
Assign Error Messages to Error Categories
Assign Error Categories to Compound Error Categories
Create Number Ranges for Document Numbers in ECS

The above customizing options are not available presently on the SBX system.