Account Assignment Company and Trading Partner 

Use

For postings which originate from inter-group business relationships, company and trading partner have to be assigned, so that these activities can be consolidated.

These account assignments are not only for company consolidations, but are also necessary for business area consolidations and profit center consolidation.

Features

Derivation of the Company

With company code postings, to which a company is assigned, this company is assigned in an AC document.

Derivation of the Trading Partners

Customizing

For every customer and vendor which display an affiliated internal trading partner, you have to enter the company identification in the master record.

When, instead of a customer account or vendor account, a general ledger account is used specially for an affiliated business partner, then also enter the company identification in the master record of this master record. However this case represents an exception.

See also

Account Assignment Trading partner in the IMG Consolidation.

Automatic Account Assignments

When you post to an affiliated customer or vendor, then the system derives the trading partner from t he master record and assigns it:

However passing on the trading partner from the current lines to the other document line item is only possible when only one trading partner is posted to per document. You can define this in the document type (see IMG step Account Assignment Trading Partner).

Manual Account Assignment

When postings have no current reference, then the trading partner can not be automatically derived. For example this applies for a transfer between income statement accounts. In this case you have to enter the trading partner manually in the document header.

Explanation for Selected Business Transactions

Vendor / Customer Invoice (FI-AP/AR)

The system transfers the company identification from the master record and passes it on in the offsetting entry. Only the trading partner can be posted to per document.

It can be required with these business transactions, that more than one trading partner is assigned per document (control via the document type). Then the trading partner is only assigned in the current line and not in the cash accounts. This is sufficient, as the cash accounts are not partner relevant.

These business transactions always have current reference and are therefore treated like the customer / vendor invoice.

Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

The system create two documents when transferring a fixed asset in another company code. In all document line items, every document has the company identification of the other company code as trading partner.

Materials Management (MM)

For goods receipt and invoice receipt from an affiliated supplier, the system derives the trading partner from the vendor’s supplier data. It assigns both the goods / invoice received and the offsetting entries with this trading partner.

Controlling (CO)

These are transferred periodically, via the reconciliation ledger, as adjustment entries to financial accounting. The trading partner derives itself from the company code.