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Credit Control Account

In the following steps, you make the settings for the credit control account.

You define the following groups and categories:

You can allocate your customers to these groups and categories for purposes of reporting and monitoring.

You can also define field groups and allocate these to master record fields. This enables you to:

Allocation of authorizations is optional. You only need it if you do not want all those clerks with change authorization for credit master record fields to have change authorization for all master record fields.
The contents of the protected fields can still be displayed by all users but can only be changed by those with the appropriate change authorization for these fields.
To receive this special change authorization, users must already have general change authorization for credit management master data.
To allocate this special authorization, proceed as follows:
a) First define field groups (see the step Define field groups).
These groups are an amalgamation of the fields that should be protected.
b) Then, allocate any master record fields that need special protection to these groups (see the step Group fields).
c) Next define the authorization by specifying the group under the authorization object Credit management: Change authorization for certain fields.
d) Finally allocate this authorization to the required profile.
Profiles are defined in the accounting clerk user master records. The authorizations work via these master records.