Bank statement

A bank statement is a summary of transactions that the company recieves from the bank institution regarding a bank account that belongs the company.

The statement has general information to identify the statment such as the bank key, bank account, currency, statement number and date. It also has global data such as the opening and closing balance of the bank account once all transactions has been posted.

The bank statement is usually issued daily, giving the details of each transaction posted in the bank account for that date. The transactions can be incoming or outgoing payments, bank charges or bank interests.

Each transaction is represented by a statement item. In each item there are different fields such as the transaction ID, the value date, the amount, the reference, document number or note to payee.

Bank statements can be created and posted manually, using the manual bank statement. This could be an option when the company only has a few transactions daily.

If the bank statements have many items, the manual bank statement will require great effort and be prone to error. So EBS must be used instead. EBS will enable the company to download the bank statement as a file from the bank web and import it into SAP. Large companies will use a third party add-on, such as SWIFT or EDITRAN, to also automate the reception of the bank statement files.

A bank statement can be printed In SAP GUI using the program RFEBKAP0.

A bank statement can be deleted In SAP GUI using the program RFEBKA96. This deletion applies to the bank accounting, but not to the G/L accounts posted. Therefore, before deleting the statement you must reverse the postings done.

You can also delete a bank statement from the Fiori app “Manage Bank Statements”. Before deleting it you can display the statement details and reverse it from the same app. You can navigate to this app from the “Manage Bank Accounts” app when you select a house bank.

The relevant tables for bank statements are: