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 Depiction Using Additional Company Code

Use

You can portray parallel accounting in your SAP System by defining an additional company code. You use this to post valuation data for your parallel accounting principle to an additional company code.

The additional company code approach is only supported by the application component Financial Accounting (FI) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA). It is not possible to post to an additional company code from any other application component.

Recommendation Recommendation

Recommendation

SAP recommends that you use this approach if you do not mind posting valuation differences manually or using Asset Accounting.

The advantages of this approach are:

  • You do not have to create any additional G/L accounts.

  • You can use the standard reporting functions to create a financial statement.

The approach is suitable if:

  • The number of G/L accounts would be too large to depict parallel accounting using additional accounts

  • Valuation differences only result from Asset Accounting, Financial Accounting or manual postings

  • You can accept a large number of company codes

  • No more than one name is required for each G/L account and language

  • This approach is already implemented and you have no additional requirements (no further development is planned for this approach)

End of the recommendation.

Features

You can post to an additional company code with the following valuation reports:

Application component

Valuation report

Financial Accounting (FI)

Valuation Adjustment

Reclassification and Sorting of Receivables and Payables

Foreign Currency Valuation

Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

Inventory Posting

Depreciation Postings

Gain/Loss from Asset Sale

In addition to the automatic postings created by the valuation reports, you can perform manual postings to the additional company code.

Additional Company Code in Asset Accounting

If you define an additional company code for depicting parallel accounting, not the following points for Asset Accounting:

  • You need to define valuation areas in Asset Accounting where you depict the parallel valuations for parallel accounting. You can specify that the postings for additional valuation areas are written to the additional company code.

    Caution Caution

    Asset Accounting cannot be active in the additional company code.

    End of the caution.

  • The values from depreciation area 01 are generally transferred to the general ledger. No accounting principles may be assigned to valuation area 01 . The valuation area is automatically assigned to the general ledger and therefore to the accounting principle of the general ledger.

  • You can define the additional valuation area, the postings for which were written to the additional company code, either as a complete area or as a delta area. If you manage the additional valuation area as a delta area, you can create the Asset Accounting closing in a joint evaluation using the actual company code and the additional company code.

Reporting

For reporting, you can use the following tools in this approach: