Maintaining Account Groups
Use
You can define any number of hierarchical structures of accounts for use in the information system, allocations and planning. These structures are called "account groups". You can create new account groups as well as display or change existing ones. If you want to use the same account groups in Profit Center Accounting that you have already created in Cost Center Accounting, you can copy them to Profit Center Accounting. The same goes for balance sheet account groups that you already created in Financial Accounting.
Each account group is assigned to a chart of accounts. You can only use an account group in multiple controlling areas if those controlling areas use the same chart of accounts.
Features
To maintain account groups, choose the menu option Master data
® Account groups. The steps required for maintaining account groups corresponds to the way you create Profit Center Groups. Note that the account groups you maintain here are valid only in Profit Center Accounting.To copy revenue and cost element groups from Overhead Cost Controlling, you can do this using the function Master data
® Account group ® Copy ® Cost element group. To copy balance sheet account groups from Financial Accounting to Profit Center Accounting, choose Master data ® Account group ® Copy ® Financial statement version.
You copy financial statement version BERL (commercial balance sheet) in chart of accounts INT to Profit Center Accounting, and enter "98" as the suffix.
The balance sheet item "1000000 Assets" becomes account "100000098 Assets" in the new account group.
The standard account groups listed in the section Revenue and Cost Elements and Account Groups are contained in client 000 of the standard system. To copy the account groups needed for your controlling areas to your productive client, choose Master data ® Account groups ® Change. Enter the desired controlling area (if you have not already set the controlling area) and the account group you want to copy. Then choose Extras ® Copy from client. Enter the source client in the dialog box, then press ENTER.