SAP ABAP IMG Activity OHANL_RI042 (Define symbolic accounts)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_HRCNL (Software Component) Sub component SAP_HRCNL of SAP_HR
   ⤷ PY-NL (Application Component) The Netherlands
     ⤷ P05C (Package) HR Customizing: Netherlands
IMG Activity
ID OHANL_RI042 Define symbolic accounts  
Transaction Code S_AHR_61014187   IMG Activity: OHANL_RI042 
Created on 19981221    
Customizing Attributes OHANL_RI042   Define symbolic accounts 
Customizing Activity OHANL_RI042   Define symbolic accounts 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name OHANL_RI042    

In this step, you create the symbolic accounts that you require for posting to Accounting.

A symbolic account has the following characteristics:

The following table shows what kind of account and what transaction is linked to an account determination type and what additional information (for example, for cost assignment) is also included in the posting transaction.

AA type    Meaning        Transaction    Additional fields

C    posting to expense account        HRC    cost assignment

CN    posting to expense account        HRC    cost assignment

    without quantity            without quantity

R    posting to expense account        HRC

    if accounting is installed in

    R/2 System.

F    posting to bal. sheet account        HRF   

FL    posting to bal.sheet account        HRF

    for checking balance

    in retroactive accounting

    (recalculation difference account)

FO    posting to bal. sheet account        HRF

    (original periods for

    wage types whose amount

    cannot change

    retroactively)

Q    posting to bal. sheet account        HRF    personnel number

    with personnel number

D    posting to personal         HRD    acc. determination

    customer accounts            with personnel number

DF    posting to fixed customer        HRD    direct assignment

                of customer account

L    posting to customer        HRD    acc. determination

    account(for specific loan)            with personnel number

                loan type,

                sequential number

K    posting to personal vendor accounts        HRK    acc. determination with

                personnel number

KF    posting to fixed vendor        HRK    direct assignment

    acc.            of vendor account

Note the following with regard to account assignment types:

  • In the standard system, no quantities are transferred from wage types in the payroll result to the payroll documents and the resulting accounting documents, although information on quantities is available on the report log for report RPCIPE00 (or RPCIPX00). It is also possible to modify the system to access this information. The account assignment type CN is only useful if you have made this modification and if, in certain instances, you want to suppress the transfer of quantity information.
  • The account assignment types FL und FO are only of use if there are cross-company code transactions. For more information on customizing cross-company code transactions, refer to Posting to Company Code Clearing Accounts.
  • We recommend that for symbolic accounts with account type FO, you determine the account in Accounting independent of the Employee grouping for account determination (Feature PPMOD). For this reason, only one G/L account is provided for the payment of wages and salaries as standard. If you determine this G/L account depending on the employee grouping for the account determination, this can lead to inconsistencies when posting the retroactive accounting results. This is due to the fact that when posting retroactive accounting results for wage types that cannot change retroactively, a technical posting takes place (for example, for the wage type Payments (/559)). Since this technical posting usually takes place in the same account in Accounting, it balances to zero and does not appear in the posting document. However, if you determine this account independently of the employee grouping for account determination, and an employee falls in a different employee grouping due to a retroactive change in the HR master data or feature PPMOD, the technical posting cannot balance to zero because two accounts are affected in Accounting. This is why you have to make changes manually in this case.

Example

The wage types Basic pay and Overtime both represent personnel costs and should therefore be posted to expense accounts. You also want to assign these wage type amounts to Cost Accounting objects. Both wage types are dealt with in the same way as far as posting is concerned and can therefore be posted to the same symbolic account. You must specify the account assignment type C, since, in Accounting, there should be a posting to expense accounts and Cost Accounting should be provided with information.

Requirements

You have carried out the step Define Employee Grouping for Account Determination

Standard settings

Symbolic accounts are already set up in the standard system. In this step, you can modify these to meet your requirements.

Recommendation

We recommend that you do not change the definition of the symbolic accounts. If changes to the definition of the symbolic accounts are necessary, you should map the changes using new symbolic accounts.

Activities

  1. Check that the existing symbolic accounts meet your requirements. Note the EG indicator. If this indicator is set for an account, posting to this account also considers employee grouping for account determination. With the exception of the key (column SymAcc), you can change the default values.
  2. To create additional symbolic accounts, choose New entries
  3. To delete unnecessary symbolic accounts, mark the account and choose Edit -> Delete.

Further notes

Symbolic accounts are not country-specific.






Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency I   Valid for countries specified 
Customizing Attributes Country Key Country Name
OHANL_RI042 NL Netherlands
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG OHANL_RI042 0 HLA0009672 Data Transfer to Other Applications 
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
V_T52EK V - View SM30 CIPO 6 Define symbolic accounts 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19990308 
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