Local and Global Account Assignments (SAP Library

Local and Global Account Assignments

Use

The operational applications work partly with other account assignments than Consolidation. Some of these account assignments are local characteristics. The characteristic values of the local characteristics are only known in the respective SAP system. In contrast to that, the characteristic values of global characteristics are clear group wide; therefore you must make sure that the global characteristics are maintained the same in all (integrated) SAP systems and clients and are assigned the corresponding local characteristics.

The Consolidation derives the characteristic values of the corresponding Consolidation characteristics from the characteristic values of the global characteristics.

Example

Assuming that the companies of a group are managed in several SAP systems and every company corresponds to a company code. The identifications of the company codes are identical in different systems, although they represent different companies. However the company identifications must be clear group wide.

Structure

The following tables assign local characteristics, global characteristics and Consolidation characteristics to each other.

Assignment of organizational units

Integrated Cons type	Local characteristic	Global characteristic	Cons characteristic
Company Cons	Company code	Company	Consolidation unit
Business Area Cons	Company code / Business area	Company / Cons business area	Consolidation unit
Profit center Cons	Company code / Profit center	Company / Profit center	Consolidation unit

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) you assign the global organizational units company and consolidation business area to the operational organizational units Company Code and if applicable Business Area.

For business area consolidations (and profit center consolidations) the system derives the consolidation units from the combinations of company codes and business areas (and profit center).

Assignment of accounts to FS items

Data transfer methods	Local characteristic		Global characteristic	Cons characteristic
Realtime update	a)	Account	Group account	FS Item
	b)	Account
Rollup	a)	Account	Group account
	b)	Account
	Secondary cost element
Periodic extract	Account		FS item group financial statement version

The transfer of a group value into a FS item value is dependent on the data transfer method.

Realtime update

You have two possibilities:

In the IMG you can assign every operational account a group account, whose key is identical with an item key of Consolidation. As a rule it is useful to assign several operational accounts one group account and to aggregate through it.
Alternatively it is possible that every account corresponds exactly to a consolidation item. Then the aggregation with the group account is not necessary.

Rollup

The transfer of account in FS item is exactly as with the realtime update, therefore with or without the group account. In addition to that you can transfer the cost elements in FS items, in fact a cost element in a FS item (1:1) or ranges of cost elements in FS items (N:1).

For periodic extracts you assign every account a financial statement version in the IMG, whose item key agrees with the item keys of Consolidation(group financial statement structure). As a rule you assign several operational accounts the same FS item of the group financial statement version and aggregate with it.

With this relationship between account and global key, the system can transfer the values to the FS items of Consolidation.

Assignment of subassignments

Local characteristic	Global characteristic	Cons characteristic
Transaction type asset accounting (FI-AA)	Cons transaction type	Subitem or custom characteristic
Business area	Cons business area	Subitem or custom characteristic
Partner	to account assignment of organizational units (see above)

The subassignments transaction type and business area are aggregated to global characteristics as well. The transfer of partner assignment, that means partner company code and partner business area is analogue to the characteristics company code and business area.