Follow-up document to CO document &1 / &2 already exists in FI

What causes this issue?

The worklist for the subsequent transfer of CO documents into Financial
Accounting contains the CO document with CO document number &V2& in
controlling area &V1&, even though follow-up documents for this CO
document already exist in Financial Accounting.

System Response

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

How to fix this error?

Delete the CO document from the worklist manually.

Procedure for System Administrators

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