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Cash Discount: What is the meaning of Cash Discount? Cash Discount is a reduction in the price of an item for sale, allowed in those cases when payment is made within astipulated period.

In general business scenario, the cash discount will depend on the payment terms agreed with the customer.Generally, in the invoice a payment term may be mentioned. For example, if the payment term mentioned in theinvoice is "2/14, Net 30", this means that the customer is entitled to a 2% discount if the payment is made within 14days of the delivery of goods. If the payment is being made beyond 14 days of the delivery of goods then full paymentis expected. In any case, the full payment is expected to be made within 30 days. 

General Process flow of Cash Discount in the case ofSales:

Payment terms are agreed upon with the customer.Goods are sold to the customer.Invoice is posted for the goods sold.Payment is received from the customer before the due date for net payment.Customer is entitled to Cash Discount which is posted to the Cash Discount Account.

Business Scenario for Cash Discount:A cash discount is a strategy applied to incentivize customers to make prompt payments for the purchases made fromthe vendor.The contractual agreement between a vendor and customer usually contains the details of the cash discount terms.For example, the vendor may issue invoices to the customer with a standard payment term of thirty days. The paymentterm would also include the condition that a discount would be provided to the customer if the payment is made withinten days of the date of issue of the invoice. The extent of the cash discount the customer is entitled to would also bementioned in the terms of payment. Hence, if the customer makes the payment within ten days of the date of issue ofthe invoice, he would be entitled to the cash discount as mentioned in the payment terms.

Cash Discount process in SAP: In SAP the following steps would be involved in the entire cash discount cycle:

The cash discount terms are configured in the terms of payment.General Ledger account would have to be assigned for posting the cash discount.The terms of payment configured above are assigned to the customer master.

Invoice is posted against the customer when sales are made to the customer. The terms of paymentmaintained in the customer master would default to the invoices from the customer master. If thedefaulted terms of payment needs to be changed another terms of payment can also be manuallyentered in the invoice.If the payment is received from the customer within the date till which the customer can avail cashdiscount as per the terms of payment, the customer would be entitled to cash discounts.

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Step 1: SAP Configuration  Maintain Terms of Payment: 

Description Transaction Code

Maintain Terms of Payment OBB8

  

As per the contractual agreement between a vendor and customer, the terms of payment would have to be configuredin SAP. For example, the screen shot above shows the details of the payment term – 0002.

The parameters of the payment term mean that the customer is entitled to a 2% discount if the payment is madewithin 14 days of the baseline date.

If the payment is being made after 14 days from the baseline date then full payment is expected.

As per the terms of payment the document date is defaulted as the baseline date which can be modified. If thedefaulted date is not modified while entering the customer invoice the document date will be the baseline date.

Step 2:SAP Configuration  Define Accounts for Cash Discount Granted:

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 Description Transaction Code

Define Accounts for Cash Discount Granted OBXI

 

In SAP, the standard transaction key SKT is used to determine accounts or posting keys for line items which arecreated automatically by the system for Cash Discounts granted.In this configuration step the G/L account number to which the automatic posting for the cash discount is to be made isassigned.

Step 3: Master Data maintenance  Assigning terms of payment in thecustomer master: 

Description Transaction Code

Create/change Customer master FD01/FD02/XD01/XD02

 

Payment terms  maintained in the company code segment of the customer master

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Payment terms  maintained in the sales area segment of the customer master.The terms of payment can be maintained in the customer master. If the terms of payment are maintained in thecustomer master, while entering an invoice against that customer, the terms of payment maintained in the customermaster will default to the invoice. Like the baseline date, the terms of payment can also be modified while entering theinvoice, if required.The terms of payment can be maintained in the company code segment as well as the sales area segment as shownin the screen shots above.

Step 4: Transactional data 1  for illustrating the cash discount process: Invoice is posted against the customer when sales are made: 

Description Transaction Code

Enter Customer Invoice FB70

 An invoice is posted against the customer with document date 19th October 2011.

When the invoice is posted against the customer upon the sales being made, the terms of payment maintained in thecustomer master in Step 3 gets automatically defaulted to the invoice as shown below.As per the terms of payment maintained in the customer master, the document date of the invoice is defaulted as thebaseline date. Loading...

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The document date of the Invoice posted is 19th of October 2011, and hence the baseline date for the invoice is also19th of October 2011.So as per the terms of payment if the payment is made within 14 days from the baseline date, the customer would beentitled to 2% cash discount.Both the terms of payment as well as the baseline date defaulted while entering the invoice can be modified, ifrequired.

Step 5: Transactional data 2  for illustrating the cash discount process: Payment is received from the customer within 14 days from the baseline date: 

Description Transaction Code

Post Incoming Payments F‐28

 When the payment is received from the customer on 19th of October 2011 (i.e. before the expiry of 14 days from thebaseline date), the customer is entitled to 2% discount. This cash discount of 2% is automatically calculated andproposed while the incoming payment is being entered.

This 2% discount is automatically posted to the General ledger account – 4040010, assigned/configured in thetransaction OBXI above.

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Debashri Dutta Oct 5, 2012 11:41 AM

Vry Explainatory...

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Venkat M Dec 5, 2012 6:03 AM

Very good. You could have included material master cash discount check box stuff also forcompleteness.

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G. Ajit Kumar Dec 5, 2012 6:08 AM (in response to Venkat M)

Thanks Venkat for your suggestion.

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ammu chinni Apr 1, 2013 7:34 AM

Very useful documentation. Thanks 

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sridhar S Apr 4, 2013 2:09 PM

You could have also discussed about 2 types of cash discount which are NET & GROSS.

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Godavari SAP Apr 20, 2013 2:14 PM (in response to sridhar S)

Nicely explained. Good work.

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Mariks . Apr 11, 2014 2:26 PM

Good document..thanks..

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Lakshmi Sama May 19, 2014 11:29 AM

Hi Ajit, Very well explained document. Thanks alot for sharing your knowledge. Regards,Lakshmi S

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NARRA LINGESH Jul 4, 2014 1:11 PM

Hi Ajit, Thanks for sharing the knowledge, i have followed you document but my client was post thedocument through SD (billing document), hear while make payment we are not able to pick the cashdiscount amount in F28, pls find the below attachment.  

Pls check and guide me. if you post the FI invoice and payment the Cash discount amount filedupdate, through SD invoice it is not updated, am i miss any setting?..... Pls guide me, thank you

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Adarsh Kalmath Ishwar Jul 21, 2014 4:04 PM

Thanks very detailed explanation. Are there any advantages of having only Cash DiscountExpense/Cash Discount Revenue as only one GL account? (both credit and debit knocking off eachother and showing only net figure) Thanks

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Bhaskar Reddy Jun 3, 2015 11:16 AM

Nice documents with each screen shots. Thanks