SAP ABAP IMG Activity KONTFINDUNG_DEF_WP (Define Account Determination for Transaction Flow Types)
Hierarchy
☛ EA-FINSERV (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension Financial Services
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IMG Activity
ID KONTFINDUNG_DEF_WP Define Account Determination for Transaction Flow Types  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87009626   SAPLS_CUS_IMG_ACTIVITY 
Created on 19990311    
Customizing Attributes KONTFINDUNG_DEF_WP   Define Account Determination for Transaction Flow Types 
Customizing Activity KONTFINDUNG_DEF_WP   Define Account Determination for Transaction Flow Types 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name KONTFINDUNG_DEF_WP    

In this IMG activity you define your posting specifications and the FI accounts to which you want to make the postings for the various business transactions.

The posting rules you specify here are dependent on two factors:

  • Flow type
  • Payment transaction: G/L account posting, or posting to a customer account.

The accounts are determined in two steps:

In the first step, you define the posting specifications on the basis of the above factors. The posting specifications describe the type of posting in an abstract form, irrespective of the company code and chart of accounts. In each case, you need to define the following parameters for both the debit and credit sides.

  • The posting category describes the type of account for the debit and credit sides respectively.

        1:    Balance sheet account (account from account assignment reference)
        2:    Customers/vendors
        3:    Bank (bank account from the flow)
        4:    Income statement (G/L account as defined under Accounts, with cost center)
        5:    G/L account (G/L account as defined under Accounts, without cost center)
  • The account symbol describes a group of G/L accounts. Account symbols are used to group similar types of posting (such as expenses, revenues, price gains, and so on).
  • The posting key contains information specific to FI (for example, DEBIT posting).

In the second step, the abstract account symbols are replaced by actual FI G/L accounts. How they are replaced depends on the factors account assignment reference and currency. For posting category 1 (balance sheet), no replacement takes place, since the balance sheet accounts are already defined in the account assignment reference for each company code.

The masking template depends on the posting category, and is either the balance sheet account or the internal bank clearing account (posting category 3 only). The "+" fields specify which figures are taken from this template.

The entry "Account symbol #", "Account assignment reference +", "Currency +", "Account +++++++++" is mainly used for incoming payment postprocessing. It ensures that a flow is posted to the same bank clearing account as before.

Example of account determination

Posting an interest receivable item without a payment transaction (not posted to a customer account):

In the first step, you would define the following:

On the debit side, the posting is to be made to a receivables account, and on the credit side to a revenue account. You enter posting category 54 (G/L to income), and define the account symbols INT_REC and REVENUE. As the posting keys you enter 40 (debit) and 50 (credit).

In the second step you then define the replacement rules for directing the posting to the actual accounts. At this stage you can divide up your position according to various factors, such as the transaction term or currency. Your replacements could look like this:

Symbol    Acct assignm. ref.    Currency    Account

INT_REC    Term > 1 year    USD    Account 1
INT_REC    Term > 1 year    ITL    Account 2
INT_REC    Term > 1 year    +    Account 3
INT_REC    Term < 1 year    +    Account 4
REVENUE    +    +    Account 5

Activities

  1. Choose Edit -> Create.
  2. Enter the factors to be used for finding the posting specifications:
    1. Flow type
    2. Payment transaction: G/L account posting (+) or posting to a customer account (X).
  3. Enter the posting keys in the detail screen and assign each posting key to an account symbol. If necessary, define new account symbols by choosing Symbols -> Create.
  4. Enter an indicator for the document type.
  5. Enter a posting category.
  6. Assign a valid FI account to each account symbol by choosing Goto -> Accounts. Posting category 1 is an exception. In this case, no replacement is made, since the account is taken from the account assignment reference.
  7. Save your entries.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory 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 KONTFINDUNG_DEF_WP 0 KFM0000011 Transfer to Financial Accounting 
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
FWZB T - Individual transaction object FWZB  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20000718 
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