Create G/L Accounts with Reference (SAP Library

Create G/L Accounts with Reference

In this activity you create your G/L accounts by copying the G/L accounts from a reference company code, editing them to meet your requirements, and then creating them.

When you edit the G/L accounts, you can only change the account numbers and names. You can make further changes once you have created the accounts. You have the following options:

If you want to change the master record of multiple G/L accounts, you can do so with the activity Collective Processing of G/L Accounts .

If you want to make changes to the master record of a single G/L account, select an activity under Change G/L Accounts Individually.

Activities

To create the G/L accounts with reference, proceed as follows:

1. Enter the target company code and the reference company code and save your entries.

2. Select the target company code and choose Detail.

The account screen appears.

3. To copy the accounts from the reference company code, choose Accounts from reference . You can restrict the number of the copied accounts by specifying an account number interval.

4. The copied accounts are displayed in a table and have not yet been created. You have the following options in this table:

You can change the account numbers and names of the copied G/L accounts.

You can save the table in editing status without creating the G/L accounts.

You can check whether your table contains any G/L accounts without names or with the same account numbers. To do so, choose Check.

You can create G/L accounts. To do so, select the G/L accounts that you wish to create, and choose Create G/L accounts.

The created accounts are displayed as Created. To update the table, choose Refresh .

You can also copy the account determination of the copied G/L accounts. To do so, select the G/L accounts for which you wish to copy the account determination and choose Copy account determination.