Creating G/L Accounts with Reference (SAP Library - General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL))

Creating G/L Accounts with Reference

Use

You can create G/L accounts by using a G/L account master records as a reference. You can copy the G/L account master records from this reference company code and edit the data in your target company code before creating the master records.

When editing the copied G/L account master records, you can easily change the account numbers and names. To make additional changes to the G/L account master records, you can use the functions available for collective and individual processing.

Features

You have the following options:

You can limit the number of accounts to be copied by entering a number range.
The G/L account master records copied are displayed in a table. You can change the account number and name and can save the changes in the table without saving the G/L accounts.

The G/L accounts are only saved when you explicitly save them.

You can create G/L accounts.

You can check to see if the table contains accounts without a name or with identical account numbers.

You can use the account assignment of the accounts copied.

Activities

You can find the function for creating G/L accounts with reference in Financial Accounting Customizing under General Ledger Accounting ® G/L Accounts ® Master Data ® G/L Account Creation ® Create G/L Accounts with Reference. You can find specific instructions in the IMG documentation for this activity.