Maintain Reason Information – A summary of the activity

Reason codes are defined for certain operations of a business function. For example, a reason must be available for reversing an invoice that has been posted in a finance book or to put an invoice on hold from adjustments. A reason code and description must be unique for a business component and business operation Refer Example. This activity allows you to define the reason codes for a business component the first time this business component is installed for a company. This activity also allows you to modify the reason definitions at a later time.

This page allows you to define unique codes identifying reasons for the selected combination of business component, type of transaction and an event. You can also assign a textual description for the reason codes. This page also allows you to set a reason code as default, so that is appears as the first reason in the respective business component. This page also allows you to modify the details of the reason if required.

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