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Definition

See inflation method .

Use

The inflation method contains basic information used by all of the programs in the Inflation Accounting solution for Financial Accounting (FI). Before you run any of these programs, you need to customize the inflation method.

Customizing

You maintain inflation methods in Customizing for FI, by choosing   Financial Accounting Global Settings   Inflation Accounting   Inflation Methods   .

Closing

When you come to run the various inflation adjustment programs, the system uses the settings in the inflation method assigned to your company code to determine:

  • Which is the general inflation index

  • Which is the default time base and exposure to inflation variant

  • Whether you want the adjustments to be split

  • Which ledger the adjustments are to be posted to

  • Which document type, posting keys, and tax codes to use when creating inflation adjustment documents