Automatic Payment Program Self Evaluation Questions

1. Which of the Following statements about automatic payment are correct ?

a. In automatic payment procedures, all incoming invoices as of the second dunning level are paid automatically
b. Direct debiting or bank collection can be used in automatic payment procedures to clear customer invoices
c. Open items posted to G/L accounts can be cleared using the payment program
d. Special G/L transactions(down payment)can be posted using the payment program
e. The payment program can pay vendor invoices using wire transfers and checks
 

2. Imagine the following scenario:

A company wants to execute a payment run on a daily basis and process several company codes at the same time. If the amount exceeds US$ 1000, the vendors are to be paid by bank transfer, amounts less than US$ 1000 are to be paid by check. The customer has two house banks and wants all checks to be processed by bank A and all.

a. You store variants for print programs within customizing. Here you can specify that the information is to be output to a data carrier. (F110 and not in FBZP)
b. You specify, per house bank, whether payments are to be made by check only or also by transfer
c. You specify the payment method from within the application, in the master record
d. The payment proposal of the automatic payment program can only be displayed
e. You can precisely schedule the print program from within the application
 

3. According to which criteria does the payment program determine and select open items:

a. posting date and baseline date
b. document date and posting date
c. baseline date and payment terms
d. posting date and cash discount periods
e. posting date and payment terms
 

4. Which of the following statements are true with regard to the customizing setting for banks in the automatic payment run?

a. The sequence of the banks for processing outgoing payments is selected randomly
b. You can only determine one payment method per house bank
c. You can select several payment methods per country
d. You can specify by bank and method the anticipated number of days before the bank account is debited
e. You can determine the banks to be used for payments according to postal code
 

5. Which of the following factors does the systems take into account in a payment run?

a. Fiscal year variant
b. Payment method specifications in the IMG
c. Specifications in the vendor master records
d. Information in the documents(incoming invoices)
e. Specifications made when maintaining the payment run parameters
 

6. Identify the correct statement(s). (Multi)

a. The vendor master record is divided into three different data areas; General data, Accounting data and Purchasing data.
b. When the goods receipt is posted, the system automatically updates the general Ledger accounts by the value of the goods receipt. It is also possible to include an additional account assignment object such as cost center, order or asset.
c. MM and FI set up and use different account groups for their respective view of the vendor master record.
d. The account group determines the number interval for assigning the account Number to the vendor, whether or not the number in internally or externally Assigned, and what fields are mandatory, suppressed, displayed and optional
e. A purchase requisition is a binding contract with a vendor to supply certain materials or Services based on certain terms and conditions.
 

7. Suppose that one company is used as both a vendor and a customer. Which of the following statements are correct regarding creating linked customer and vendor master records for this company? (Multi)

a. Only one business partner master record is created, with client level, purchasing, sales, And accounting data. This prevents the creation of redundant master data.
b. If the master records are linked correctly. The vendor and the customer line items will be posted to the same reconciliation account.
c. The corresponding vendor master number must be entered in the client level of the customer master record and vice versa.
d. The vendor and customer records that are to be linked may have different account numbers.
e. Once properly linked, sales invoices and purchase invoices for this company will automatically clear against each other.
 

8. Which of the following statements about transactions are correct? (Multi)

a. An invoice may be parked by an accounts clerk and a workflow message sent Automatically to the supervisor.
b. Credit memos can be included in the payment program to reduce the final invoice Value paid.
c. A parked invoice has a temporary document number assigned by the user.
d. An invoice which has been cleared by the payment program can only be reversed After the cleared line items have been reset.
e. An individual cheque cannot be printed automatically when you manually post an Outgoing payment.
 

9. Which of the following statements about one time accounts are correct? (Multi)

a. One time accounts must use an account group which has been defined specifically for one time accounts.
b. A one-time account group must use a different number range from all other account Groups.
c. The vendor’s name and address are not held in the one-time account master record.
d. Credit memos cannot be created for a one time vendor account.
e. You cannot change a one-time account master record once it has been created.
 

10. Between which functions in the FI-MM module does a direct relationship exist? (Multi)

a. Requirement planning- Invoice Verification
b. Invoice verification- Account Payable.
c. Inventory Audit- Invoice Verification.
d. Purchasing – Invoice Verification.
e. Goods issue to a production order – G/L account.

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Correct Answers:

1) b, d, e

2) c, e

3) c, e

4) c, d, e

5) b, c, d, e

6) a, d

7) c, d, e

8) a, b, d

9) a, c

10) b, d, e

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