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1. "How many charts of accounts can be assigned to company code we can assign
company code to chart of account through OB62? Now my question is in what way we
can assign three types of chart of account to company code in one transaction code"

We can assign three chart of accounts to a company code.

1. operational chart of accounts (mandatory)

2. Group Coa (optional)

3. Country coa.

A COA must be assigned to a company code. This COA is the operative COAand is used in
both FI and CO. One Chart of Account can be assigned to many Company codes i.e.,
Multiple company codes can either share the same or have separate COA. But a company
code (Country specific Company code or International Company code) can have a country
specific COA also along with Operative COA. The link between the regular COA and the
country COAappears in the alternate number field of the G/L master record.
If your organization consisting of multiple company codes (such as a global company) needs
various chart of accounts, you should note that cost account is only connected to the
operating chart of accounts. How you organize your chart of accounts depends on the
hierarchy level at which you want to carry out cost accounting.
You have two basic methods for organizing your chart of accounts.
Central organization
At the corporate group level, a chart of account is defined which contains all accounts and
can be used by all company codes. This chart of accounts is the operating chart of accounts
for all company codes. To meet specific country requirements, you can enter an additional
(country-specific) chart of accounts for each company code.
Advantage: Cross-company code cost accounting is possible. Consolidation is carried out
using the operating chart of accounts, which is the corporate group chart of accounts.
Disadvantage: The accountants cannot work with their own country-specific charts of
accounts.
Decentral organization
Each company code uses its country-specific chart of accounts as the operating chart of
accounts. For consolidation, you enter the corporate group chart of accounts additionally for
each company code.

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2. If there are two company codes with different chart of accounts, client wants to add
consolidate their activities?

To link to Consolidated COA

1.While creating chart of accounts give consolidated chart of in the field group COA (t
code OB13)
2.In FS00 give the group COA G/L account number.
In this case you either need to write an ABAP program or you need to implement the Special
Consolidation Module of SAP. If both the company codes use the same chart of accounts
then standard SAP reports give you the consolidated figure.

3. Client wants to maintain plant wise different GL codes? How will you process.
TAX CODES
Maintain 3 Tax code corresponding to your Plant region.
This will help you in differniate GL Accounts based on Tax Code.
Use Tcode FTXP to create Tax Code.

G/L Accounts
To have tax value to different G/L accounts, accordingly you need that number of G/L
Accounts.
To do so
(i.) Use Tcode OB40 for maintaining G/L accounts with Tax Code combination.

4. What are the different scenarios under which a Business Area or a Profit Centre may
be defined?

Business area is an organisational unit which corresponds to the specific business

segment or area of responsibility. Identification of business area helps in segment
reporting of a company in its financial statements. Business areas can be identified based
on the products of the company or based on geographical area.

Profit centers are internal areas of a company that have the responsibility for achieving
target profits or productivity goals.

The objective of business area is more for reporting purposes whereas profit center allows to
analyse areas of responsibility and to delegate responsibility to decentralised units (eg., the

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various divisions within a company). Thus, profit center are basically treated as "companies
within a company" and ensures effective control.

Business area will have many profit centers. For example Vehicle is a business area in a
company. Vehicle can be cars and Bikes etc. Here Vehicle is business area and Cars and Bike
are profit centers. In broad Vehicle is a profit center. But as it has sub areas those are profit
centers. So profit centers cannot be replaced with business area and vice versa. We can
replace business area by Profit centre, only condition is that it should be in same controlling
area. The business area is more like a business unit of a company. You can have multiple
profit centers within a business area.

Main distinguish factor is that distribution and assessment in possible in profit center but not
in business area.

5. Client wants to change the reconciliation account in the vendor master? What is the
impact on the old balance when the reconciliation account in the vendor master is
changed?
Reconciliation account can be changed in the Vendor master provided that authority to change has
been configured. Also any change you make to the reconciliation account is prospective and not
retrospective. The old items & balances do not reflect the new account only the new transactions
reflect the account.
To change the reconciliation account there are some configuration steps that need to be
completed. Transaction OB23 under Change Vendor you need to change the field status
for the reconciliation account from display to optional entry. Transaction OBBW the
adjustment accounts need to be defined. These accounts should be non-reconciliation
accounts. These are the accounts that will be used to post the existing vendor balances
until they reach zero. Go to the vendor master record and change the reconciliation
account.

CAUSE
The open item account in which you want to change the reconciliation account has been
posted to. By changing the reconciliation account in the open item master record the
proportionate values from the items open at the time of change are not posted to the new
reconciliation account.
WHAT TO DO
On the balance sheet key date the open items from the old reconciliation account are
allocated to the new reconciliation account using adjustment accounts. This allocation is
carried out automatically when you create a sorted list of receivables and payables using
report SAPF101.
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6. A company has its books prepared based on Jan Dec calendar year for reporting to its
parent company. It is also required to report accounts to tax authorities based on April-
March. Can assets be managed in another depreciation area based on a different fiscal
year variant?

You determine the depreciation posting cycle by entering the length of time (in posting
periods) between two depreciation posting runs. This means that a setting of 1 indicates
monthly posting, 3 means quarterly posting, 6 means semi-annual, and 12 means annual
(for a fiscal year version with 12 posting periods). When you start a depreciation posting
run, you have to enter the period for which you want it to be carried out.

You do not have to keep strictly to this posting cycle. You can also choose an unplanned
depreciation posting run using an indicator in the initial screen of the depreciation posting
program. When you set this indicator, you can skip over several periods, and post the total
depreciation for all of the skipped periods in one period. You might need to do this, for
example, if you carried out legacy data transfer during the fiscal year. This method
enables you to post all depreciation up to the transfer date at one time.

You can use a different fiscal year variant in Asset Accounting than you do in the general
ledger. The period you enter in the depreciation posting run, however, is always the
period in the fiscal year variant for the general ledger. If you are using a different fiscal
year variant in Asset Accounting, the system determines the FI-AA period to be posted in
the following way:

First, the system determines the date of the last day of the FI period entered (according to
the fiscal year variant of the general ledger). Then it determines the FI-AA period in
which this date falls, and posts to this period. For example, you might enter period 1 for
the depreciation posting run, but the system posts period 2. The reason for this difference
is that January 31 falls in period 2 according to the fiscal year version in Asset
Accounting. This problem occurs particularly when you use fiscal year variants that apply
to specific depreciation areas.

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