EA-FIN: Intercompany Reconciliation
(Cross-System)
Cross-company Intercompany Reconciliation is a part of the Financials Extension (EA-FIN) business function.
Technical Data
Technical name of the business function |
EA-FIN |
Type of business function |
Enterprise Extension |
Documentation based on release |
SAP ERP 6.0 |
SAP software component |
EA-APPL |
SAP application component |
FI |
Business Intelligence content |
Not relevant |
Additional content available in other SAP applications |
Not relevant |
Business function requiring activation in addition |
Not relevant |
Use
You use cross-system Intercompany Reconciliation (ICR) for your requirements in Financial Accounting. Using this function, you can reconcile customer documents and vendor documents of affiliated companies in the group. You can also reconcile documents from different SAP systems and clients. In addition, you can filter only the open items of selected companies for a given key date, and identify any documents which cause differences.
Integration
This function is part of Closing Operations in Financial Accounting; and it is assigned to Periodic Processing in General Ledger Accounting (New). You can call this function from the SAP Easy Access screen, not only under the General Ledger, but also under Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
Intercompany reconciliation (ICR) is part of the Individual Financial Statements business process, which is found in your SAP Solution Manager system. However, you can also use intercompany reconciliation for other business processes related to closing.
Prerequisites
This function can be used to enhance existing functions, and does not change any existing functions or interfaces. However, activating the Enterprise Extension EA-FIN makes certain functions on the SAP Easy Access screen and in the SAP Implementation Guide (IMG)fully usable.
Features
Cross-system, intercompany reconciliation includes the following subfunctions, of which some are mandatory and others are optional:
● Start reconciliation run automatically (required)
● Check status of reconciliation run (optional)
● Perform manual reconciliation (required)
● Make adjustment postings (optional)
See also:
For information about configuring and running intercompany reconciliation, see SAP Library under SAP ERP Central Component → Accounting → Financial Accounting → General Ledger (FI-GL) (New) → Periodic Processing → Closing Operations → Reconciliation of Group Receivables/Payables (Cross-System).
For more information about configuration and Customizing for Intercompany Reconciliation, see the SAP Service Marketplace at:
● service.sap.com/releasenotes → SAP Solutions → R/3 → SAP R/3 Enterprise 47X200, in Chapter 2.2.1.1.1 Reconciliation of Affiliated Companies (Cross-System). This information is also available in the same release note in your system.
● service.sap.com/erp → SAP ERP → SAP ERP Financials → SAP Financial Accounting → Fast Close, Media Library. For information about ICR, see Background Information & Customizing Guide.
For more information about activating and using intercompany reconciliation, see these SAP Notes:
● 789243: Intercompany Reconciliation
● 823533: FB2E: Missing Menu Paths for Intercompany Reconciliation