Changes to the Implementation Guide (IMG) for 4.5A 

Description

The following changes have been made to the IMG structure for 4.5A:

1. Financial Accounting Global Settings

• Changed: The titles of the following activities have been changed in the area "Withholding Tax": Maintain formulas now becomes Define special calculation types; Maintain recipient types now becomes Check recipient types; Maintain tax codes is now Check withholding tax codes ; Define withholding tax formulas is now Define calculation types.

• New: Withholding tax settings under Extended Withholding Tax -> Calculation -> Withholding Tax Type -> Define rounding rule for withholding tax type.

• New: Correspondence settings under Assign company codes to correspondence company codes.

2. General Ledger Accounting

• Deleted: The activity "Prepare manual planning" has been deleted.

3. Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

• New: Settings for dual control for master data changes in sub-ledger accounts under Customer/Vendor Accounts -> Master Records -> Preparations for Creating Customer/Vendor Records -> Define sensitive fields for dual control.

• New: Settings for individual value adjustment and discounting under Busines Transactions -> Closing -> Valuate.

• New: Define parameters for further processing EDI payment advice notes under Business Transactions -> Incoming Payments -> Electronic Payment Receipt -> Payment Advice Notes.

• New: Account determination for payment differences from alternative payment currencies under Business Transactions -> Outgoing Payments -> Outgoing Payments Global Settings.

• New: Connect sub-ledger accounts to drilldown reporting under Information System -> Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable -> Drilldown Reports ->...

4. Bank Accounting

• New: Activate bank chain, define scenario and create general bank chain under Bank Chain.

• New: Define number ranges for payment requests, define payment blocking indicators for accounting documents, define clearing accounts for receiving bank for account transfer under Business Volume -> Payment Transactions -> Payment Request.

• New: Define global settings, define ALE-compatible payment methods, bank account transfers and value dates under Business Volume -> Payment Transactions -> Payment Handling.

5. Special Purpose Ledger

• New: Compare summary records with line item totals under Tools.

• New: Connect Special Purpose Ledger to drilldown reporting under Information System -> Drilldown Reports -> ....