User is working with procurement categories and wishes to override the main account for the .expense posting. To do this they can update the PO line and amended the distribution which the supplier invoicing process respects as required.

However the receipt accrual does not take the amended distribution into account and the accrual is posted to the account nominated in the stock management posting setup for the procurement category.

When the PO is invoiced, the value of the expense is posted to the overridden distribution, but this is a different account to the accrual.

This means that the accrual principle is not respected where the accrual should represent a footprint of the final expense posting in the period that utility for the received item is available. As the accrual is to the account nominated by the procurement category configuration, and the final expense posting to the overridden account from the PO line distribution, this can cause large sums to move from one account to another when invoicing is performed.

So each month the user has to make a manual adjustment for POs where the distribution has been overridden which is a not a great process.