See inflation key.
The inflation key instructs all the programs in the Inflation Accounting solution for Financial Accounting (FI) how to adjust for inflation a given G/L account.
You maintain inflation keys in Customizing for FI, by choosing
Once you have maintained the keys, you assign one at company code level to every G/L account that is to be adjusted.
In order to adjust accounts receivable and accounts payable, you assign an inflation key to the appropriate reconciliation account.
When you come to run the various inflation adjustment programs, they only adjust G/L accounts that you have assigned a key to. The key instructs the programs:
Whether the account is a monetary account
Which adjustment methodto apply to the account
Whether the account is to be adjusted using a specific inflation indexor a particular time base and exposure to inflation variant
Whether to actually post inflation adjustments calculated on this account
Whether to post the adjustments to an account for specific inflation adjustments