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Use

The component offers a number of functions that simplify creating and changing one or more consolidation chart of accounts.

Features

Creating a New Consolidation Chart of Accounts

The standard system contains a number of predefined consolidation charts of accounts. You should make use of these predefined charts of accounts if possible. This is because if you decide to create your own consolidation chart of accounts, you must maintain the financial statement items in many affected Customizing settings, such as differential items.

You can create your own consolidation chart of accounts or change an existing one in the following ways:

  • You can enter or change the financial statement items manually. You can choose between hierarchy maintenance and individual processing. The procedure is the same as with Maintenance of Organizational Units .

See also:

  • Maintain Item Hierarchies for Cons Chart of Accounts in the Implementation Guide for Consolidation

  • Maintain FS Items Individually in the Implementation Guide

  • You can use a flexible upload to copy the FS items from an Excel file into Consolidation.

See also Copy FS Items from PC File by means of Flexible Upload in the Implementation Guide

  • You can create the FS items based on an FI chart of accounts or a financial statement version.

See also Copying FS items in the Implementation Guide.

Mass Changes

If you want to change the master data of multiple financial statement items in the same way, you can use the mass change function in Customizing: You can replace selected master data values with new values in one step.

Reporting Options

You can list the financial statement items for purposes such as producing hard copies. There are a number of different ways to list the data:

  • In the application menu of Consolidation , choose   Information system   Master data   FS items   .

  • In the master data maintenance screen or display screen, choose the Print function.

The lists are formatted with the ABAP List Viewer. The ABAP List Viewer enables you to set filters or change the content and width of the columns.

See also: ABAP List Viewer in the SAP Library.

Generating Sets

For Report Writer reports you can have the system generate FS item sets from the hierarchy information. The system automatically offers this function when you save the hierarchy.