Enter your company's business place CNPJ:

Choose  Financial Accounting Financial Accounting Global Settings Company Code Enter Global Parameters .

Select your company code, and then choose the Additional details pushbutton. Enter the CNPJ business place number. Use the value you entered in the technical key BRANCH of the table J_1BBRANCH.

Add the required entries to your Financial Statement Version:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transaction Closing Documenting Define Financial Statement Versions .

You may create a new financial statement version (FSV) or adapt an existing one.

Select the Fin. statement items pushbutton and customize the tree hierarchy of the FSV. The following internal codes, as defined by SPED, must be used in the hierarchy, regardless of the level:

Define a document type to be used for all closing activities:

Choose  Financial Accounting Financial Accounting Global Settings Document Document Header Define Document Types .

Create the document type to be used for all year-end closing activities.

Define the codes of the government entities:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Define Government Entities , or go to Transaction SM30, view J_1BECD_CUST01V, and enter the following information:

Define the qualification for the person responsible:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Define Qualification for Person Responsible , or go to Transaction SM30, view J_1BECD_CUST02V, and enter the following information:

Maintain the person responsible

The person responsible refers to the person or people who approve the information contained in the SPED ECD file. By SPED definition, you have to specify at least one person responsible for the file per company code.

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Maintain Person Responsible , or go to Transaction SM30, view J_1BECD_CUST03V, and enter the following information:

Define the number range for the report execution number:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Define Number Range for Electronic Accounting File History , or go to Transaction J1BECD_NUM.

Select the Number Ranges pushbutton and enter the following values:

Define intercompany relations codes:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Define Intercompany Relations Codes , or go to Transaction SM30, view J_1BECD_CUST07V and enter the following information:

Define intercompany relations:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Define Intercompany Relations , or go to Transaction SM30, view J_1BECD_CUST06V and enter the following information:

Define BCB country codes:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Assign BCB Country Codes to ISO Country Codes , or go to Transaction SM30, view J_1BEFDV_COUNTRY and enter the following information:

Define register category

The register category refers to the category for each register per accounting bookkeeping type for the SPED ECD file. There are four possible values: mandatory, optional, mandatory hierarchy dependent or not applicable. For more information, refer to the field help.

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Define Register Category , or go to Transaction SM30, view J_1BECD_CUST05V and enter the following information:

Define subledgers:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting Define Subledgers , or go to Transaction SM34, enter the object J_1BECD_CUST08VC and enter the following information:

Create an implementation:

Choose  Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Closing Reporting Statutory Reporting: Brazil SPED Reporting BAdI: Electronic Accounting File Routines , or via transaction SE18, BAdI BADI_J_1BECD.

You can use the methods of the BAdI to fill in certain registers of the flat file with customer-specific data.

For more information, refer to the highest version of the ECD Content File attached to SAP Note 1234056.