One or more accounting distribution is missing a ledger account or contains a ledger account that is not valid. Use the Accounting distribution form or the Posting profile to update the ledger account

One or more accounting distribution is missing a ledger account or contains a ledger account that is not valid. Use the Accounting distribution form or the Posting profile to update the ledger account

Lot of times this error message can be seen across places in D365FO

Most common is PO and just before confirmation or submission to workflow if there is no account assigned on the PO line and charges accounting distribution then the error comes up.

One of the way is to manually reset distribution as shown below

or use the clean routine to do it for entire PO

Note - The root cause of this issue originates from changes in accounting distribution and if any key account e.g. purchase accrual is removed then the PO lines modified or newly created ones during this time would give the errors.

Once the accounts structure is updated and activated one can then use the routine - Purchase Order distribution reset