Financial documents do not yet exist

What causes this issue?

The mass maintenance of the financial documents can be carried out only
if at least one financial document has already been maintained in the
system.

System Response

The system cancels processing.

How to fix this error?

Maintain at least one financial document using the 'Create financial
documents' transaction.

Procedure for System Administrators

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.