EA-FIN: Intercompany Reconciliation (Cross-System) Cross-company
Intercompany Reconciliation
is a part of the
Financials Extension (EA-FIN)
business function.
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 |
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.
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.
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.
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)
For information about configuring and running intercompany reconciliation, see
SAP Library
under
.
For more information about configuration and Customizing for
Intercompany Reconciliation,
see the
SAP Service Marketplace
at:
, 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.
,
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