Hierarchy
EA-FIN (Software Component) EA-FIN⤷
FI-GL (Application Component) General Ledger Accounting⤷
FI_PARA_CUST (Package) Customizing for Parallel Valuation Methods
IMG Activity
| ID | FIGL_PARA_CO | Parallel Accounting in Controlling |
| Transaction Code | S_ALN_01000639 | (empty) |
| Created on | 20020124 | |
| Customizing Attributes | ACC_GL_PARA_K_U_A | Parallel Valuations: Optional Activity |
| Customizing Activity |
Document
| Document Class | SIMG | Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs. |
| Document Name | FIGL_PARA_CO_DC |
In Controlling (CO), you normally store the valuation approach of the general ledger or an alternative cost-accounting valuation approach. Displaying multiple valuation approaches according to various accounting principles is a classic requirement of Controlling. However, as values can flow back from Controlling to Financial Accounting, you can also carry out valuations according to various accounting principles in Controlling.
To depict parallel valuation methods in Controlling, you have the following options:
- Depiction using additional accounts
If you depict parallel valuation methods using additional account, you have to decide which accounting principle is relevant for Controlling. You also have to create cost and revenue elements for the accounts that are relevant in Controlling.
Note
If you transfer values from parallel valuation methods to various accounts in Controlling, this can lead to a considerable increase in data, particularly with regard to clearing within CO.
Actual price determination is not possible for accounts that have been posted to in this way.
- Depiction using an additional ledger
If you depict parallel valuation methods using additional ledgers, you must be aware that the accounting principle of the general ledger is decisive for Controlling. Controlling is only integrated with the general ledger. This means that only the valuation that is stored in the general ledger can be stored in Controlling.
Caution
You cannot use Controlling to depict a parallel valuation method using an additional ledger. Also, you cannot transfer the values from the additional ledger to Controlling.
- Depiction using an additional company code
If you depict a parallel valuation method using an additional company code, Controlling is not normally integrated with the additional company code. This means that no Controlling takes place in the additional company code, and that the values from the additional company code are not available in Controlling.
- Depiction of the reconciliation ledger
Clearing within Controlling often leads to shifts between business areas and functional areas. These shifts can be followed in the reconciliation ledger in Financial Accounting. This flow of information is required in Financial Accounting to ensure reporting by segment or to depict cost-of-sales accounting. In addition to the general ledger, the clearing entries can also be transferred to an additional ledger.
As only one valuation approach is normally stored in Controlling, you have to check to what extent the data flowing back is specific for one accounting principle.
- Results Analysis
For long-term orders or projects, the various accounting principles have different requirements with regard to the handling and posting of costs, revenues and provisions (for example the percentage of completion method versus the completed contract method). For this purpose, results analysis provides you with flexible valuation methods. These methods are depicted in various parallel results analysis versions.
You have to define a results analysis version for each accounting principle. You can assign one accounting principle to each results analysis version. You can post the results of the various results analysis versions to various accounts in Financial Accounting, or to an additional ledger.
If you want to post the results to an additional ledger, you have to assign the additional ledger to the accounting principle that you want to post to the additional ledger.
You can find the setting in Customizing for Parallel Valuation Methods, under Accounting Principles and Additional Ledgers ->Assign Ledger to Accounting Principle .
- Material Valuation
Material valuation takes place in the SAP system during the price control period of the material in question. For the valuation of the material on the balance sheet, revaluations are normally carried out on specified dates. Here, the requirements of the various accounting principles must be taken into account.
Business Attributes
| ASAP Roadmap ID | 204 | Establish Functions and Processes |
| Mandatory / Optional | 2 | Optional activity |
| Critical / Non-Critical | 2 | Non-critical |
| Country-Dependency | A | Valid for all countries |
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History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20030709 |
| SAP Release Created in | 110 |
