SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_CFMENUORK2OBYB (Define Adjustment Accounts for Reconciliation Posting)
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IMG Activity
ID SIMG_CFMENUORK2OBYB Define Adjustment Accounts for Reconciliation Posting  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87004044   IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUORK2OBYB 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes SIMG_CFMENUORK2OBYB   Maintain Adjustment Accounts for Reconcilation Posting 
Customizing Activity SIMG_CFMENUORK2OBYB   Maintain Adjustment Accounts for Reconcilation Posting 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_CFMENUORK2OBYB    

If, in cost accounting, values cross company code, business area, and/or functional area boundaries, inconsistencies occur in Financial Accounting (FI). These occur in particular when costs are capitalized. You can use reconciliation postings to balance out these differences in FI.

For secondary CO postings, FI creates clearing entries in special accounts which you must create as adjustment accounts.

You can also make clearing entries for primary postings. The system carries these out for the adjustment account given in account determination, not to the expense account in FI.

In this IMG activity, you can choose from the following to set adjustment accounts:

Account Determination Without Substitution (Standard)

Depending on the differentiation of clearing entries in FI, you create as many adjustment accounts as required and assign them to business transactions or object classes.

When assigning accounts, you can:

  • Enter an account for all reconciliation postings
  • Enter an account for each business transaction
  • Enter an account for each object class
  • Enter an account for each business transaction and for each object class

Notes

  • Ensure that you enter accounts for all business transactions and object classes and all possible combinations thereof.
  • You can also distinguish between debit and credit accounts. Debit accounts accept the cost debits, credit accounts the cost credits.
  • Reconciliation postings in FI are not relevant to taxation.

    To carry out adjustment postings to accounts not allowing postings other than those relevant to taxes, you can set an indicator in the company code. To do so, in Customizing choose Financial Accounting Global Settings -> Tax on Sales/Purchases -> Posting -> Assign Tax Codes for Non-Taxable Transactions. During reconciliation postings, the system sets the indicator automatically.

    Alternatively, you can set the Posting without tax allowed indicator in the master record. To do so, in Customizing for General Ledger Accounting, choose Master Data -> G/L Account Creation and Processing -> Edit G/L Account -> Edit G/L Account Centrally.

Account Determination with Substitution

You also have the option of finding the adjustment account via substitution.

You must continue to maintain standard account determination, at the very least the posting key, for each chart of accounts. Substitution in account determination is an optional detailed search.

Notes

If you found an adjustment account via standard account determination, you can allow this to be overwritten by substitution if a rule applies.

If reconciliation postings already occurred in the current year, you can change neither standard account determination nor substitution because this would create inconsistent data in the information system. This also applies to changes in any cost element groups used.

You can only create, change, display or delete substitution rules in account determination.

Recommendation

Do not use adjustment accounts in FI for other posting transactions. This keeps the overview simplified.

Example

Activities

  1. Determine the degree of detail necessary for reconciliation postings and choose the corresponding method.

    If you require account determination with both "Transaction" and "Object class" using other criteria, such as company codes, use substitution. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.

  2. Create the adjustment accounts.
  3. Maintain the company code or

    business/functional area clearing accounts.

  4. Assign the adjustment accounts described above as follows:
    1. Enter a chart of accounts
    2. Assign the adjustment accounts to the level of detail required
  5. Save your entries.

Activities in Substitution

  1. To create a substitution, choose Edit -> Substitution -> Create/Change.

Note on Transport

If you did not choose the automatic recording of changes for client-specific objects in your client (in Customizing, under Basis System Administration -> Change and Transport System -> Configure Clients), then you can transport the settings for account determination by choosing Account Determination -> Transport -> Set Account determination.

You can transport the substitution settings by choosing Account Determination -> Transport -> Substitution.

Further notes

For more information, see the SAP Library under Financials -> CO Controlling -> Cost Element Accounting -> Periodic Tasks -> Reconciliation Postings in the sections Defining Adjustment Accounts and Account Determination and

Financials -> FI Financial Accounting -> FI Special Purpose Ledger -> Validations and Substitutions.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   Critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG SIMG_CFMENUORK2OBYB 0 HLA0001387 Reconciliation of Financial Accounting and Controlling 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
FS01 L - Logical transport object FS01 CEL Create Adjustment Account 
FS01 L - Logical transport object FS02 CEL2 Change Adjustment Account 
OBXN T - Individual transaction object OBXN COOMCEL1 Maintain Clearing Accounts for Business Area/Functional Area 
F01U L - Logical transport object OBYA CO-CEL Maintain Clearing Accounts for Company Codes 
OBYB T - Individual transaction object OK17 01 Define Accounts for Automatic Postings 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20040128 
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