Determination of the G/L Account for Disposal Operations

Use

This function automatically determines a G/L accountfor an entry document from the Customizing settings and proposes it in disposal processing in the entry document detail view on the Acct assgt tab page.

Integration

The G/L account is determined when you choose the detail view for an entry document for the first time and the entry document contains the data specified in the Prerequisites section.

Prerequisites

For the system to be able to determine a G/L account, the entry document must contain the following data:

Company code
Plant for the waste generator
Account assignment category

Features

The system determines the G/L account as follows:

The system determines the following data from the data in the entry document (company code, plant for the waste generator, and account assignment category):
- The system determines the chart of accounts , which is assigned to the company code specified in the IMG activity Enter Global Parameters in Customizing for Financial Accounting .
- The system determines the valuation grouping code, which is assigned to the valuation area of the plant for the waste generator in the IMG activity Group Together Valuation Areas in Customizing for Materials Management .
- The system determines the account modification, which is assigned to the account assignment category specified in the IMG activity Maintain Account Assignment Categories in Customizing for Materials Management .
The system determines the data records, which contain the account modification and valuation grouping code determined but no valuation class, for the transaction GBB (Offsetting entry for inventory posting) and the chart of accounts determined in the IMG activity Create Automatic Postings in Customizing for Materials Management .
If precisely one data record is found, the G/L account is proposed as the G/L account in the entry document in the Debit field for the entry (debit account). If no data record is found or if the system finds several, or if Customizing settings are missing, no G/L account is proposed.