You use this process to assign special versions to valid version combinations. By doing this, settings only need to be made once and become available to multiple version combinations.

You have performed the following steps in Customizing for Consolidation:

When customizing the version combinations, you select the versions you want to use in SAP Consolidation.

If you use two or more characteristics with the role version, you define the combinations you want to work with. This way, you limit the number of valid combinations.

Later, you maintain the special versions for each value combination.

Example 1:

Here you have two characteristics for your versions:

• Data category with the values Actual and Plan
• Accounting Principles with the values U.S. GAAP and IAS

You use both accounting principles for planning, but you use only U.S. GAAP for creating consolidated statements with the actual data. Therefore, you define the following three combinations (out of four possible combinations):

• Actual / U.S. GAAP
• Plan / U.S. GAAP
• Plan / IAS

Example 2:

Here you have three characteristics for your versions:

• Data category with the values actual, plan, and forecast
• Valuation with the values group and profit center
• Accounting principles with the values U.S. GAAP and IAS

You define the following valid version combinations:

You specify the special version for each valid combination of versions.

The assignments of special versions attributes and hierarchy structure are made separately for each characteristic of the special versions.

You can create default settings for multiple version combinations under Special Versions ® context menu: Define Rules.

You can overwrite the values inherited from the rule with single values. To do this, you mark the symbol for inheritance , choose Single Value in the context menu, and enter the desired special version.

• Actual / U.S. GAAP
• Plan / U.S. GAAP
• Plan / IAS
• Plan / German HGB

You can create a new special version by assigning a name.