In SAP Financial Accounting, the process of matching an incoming payment to a specific customer invoice is called "clearing." When this occurs, the system offsets the open receivable (the invoice) against the payment. Both the original invoice line item and the payment line item are then marked as "cleared." They are linked by a clearing document number and a clearing date. Therefore, when viewing the customer line items report, these matched transactions will be displayed with the status of "Cleared Item," indicating that the transaction cycle for that specific invoice is complete.

A. Open Item: An open item is an unsettled transaction, such as an unpaid invoice. The scenario describes a paid and matched invoice.

B. Bank Transfer: This is a method of payment, not the accounting status of a line item in a customer account report.

D. Manual Journal Entry: This describes the method of posting a document, not its subsequent status after being paid and cleared.

1. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Documentation

"Clearing Open Items": "When you clear open items

the system enters a clearing document number and the clearing date in the cleared line items. In this way

items that have been paid are marked as cleared." This source confirms that matching a payment to an invoice results in the items being marked as cleared. (Accessed via SAP Help Portal).

2. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Documentation

"Display Line Items in General Ledger": The documentation for line item display reports (the technical basis for customer line item reports) specifies the selection criteria

which include the status of items. Users can explicitly choose to display "Open Items

" "Cleared Items

" or "All Items

" confirming that "Cleared Item" is the correct status for a paid invoice. (Accessed via SAP Help Portal

section on G/L Account Line Item Display).