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Function documentation Posting to Master Account Assignment  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

In the New General Ledger, you can post all liabilities with their respective expense information from the infotype Organizational Assignment (0001). The master account assignment is used for posting in this case.

The following entities are hereby included:

·        Company code

·        Business area

·        Segment

·        Profit center

·        Fund

·        Grant

In this case, the liabilities are always posted to the master account assignment. A more precise distribution of the liabilities does not take place if you use this solution.

If you want to distribute the liabilities according to expenses, you must use the solution for distributing liabilities according to expenses.

Prerequisites

You have chosen Distribution of Liabilities According to Infotype 1 as the type of cost distribution. You make this setting in Customizing for Payroll under Reporting for Posting Payroll Results to Accounting  ® New General Ledger: Distribution of Liabilities According to Expenses  ® Central Settings ® Define Type of Distribution.

Example

An employee receives the following payments:

Wage Type

Amount

Segment

M010

$ 800

1

M020

$ 200

2

In posting, all these payments are posted to the account assignment; in this case, to segment 1:

Wage Type

Amount

Segment

/559

$ 500

1

/TAX

$ 500

1

 

 

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