The clearing assistant performs automatic mass clearing.
Random mass clearing
The clearing assistant, which is available as a link for clearing customers and vendors as well as for clearing G/L accounts, is used, for example, if the open item list has become very long due to a legacy data transfer because the old postings have not been marked as cleared.
You want to get these "open items", which are no longer open, out of the list as quickly as possible, whereby it is not important to you which item is cleared against which other item. The "clearing assistant" cleans the open item list of these "old burdens" by clearing them indiscriminately.
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Clearing assistant - settings
The clearing assistant offers the following setting options:
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