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 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 Start of the navigation path SAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step Accounting Next navigation step Financial Accounting Next navigation step General Ledger (FI-GL) (New) Next navigation step Periodic Processing Next navigation step Closing Operations Next navigation step Reconciliation of Group Receivables/Payables (Cross-System) End of the navigation path .

For more information about configuration and Customizing for Intercompany Reconciliation, see the SAP Service Marketplace at:

  • Start of the navigation path service.sap.com/releasenotes Next navigation step SAPSolutions Next navigation step R/3 Next navigation step SAP R/3 Enterprise 47X200 End of the navigation path , 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.

  • Start of the navigation path service.sap.com/erp Next navigation step SAPERP Next navigation step SAP ERPFinancials Next navigation step SAP FinancialAccounting Next navigation step Fast Close End of the navigation path , 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