In a real-time scenario, additional ledgers required for general ledger account which are used for parallel accounting. The additional ledgers have different currency, fiscal year variant and posting period variant.
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Once the Credit Control Area created, the next step is to assign a company code to the credit control area. Assigning credit control area to the company code is mandatory. The link is established between the company code and credit control area can be done through assignment.
Chart of Accounts Group contains the chart of accounts which are grouped as per requirement. It allows the company to provide reports for the entire corporate group. Chart of Accounts Group used to manage and control the large number of accounts.
The Financial Accounting(FI) application component include below sub-components:
Company is the smallest organizational unit. The individual financial statements are created according to the relevant legal requirements for the company. A company can include either one or more company codes. The company (organizational unit) definition is optional.
Company Code is a smallest organizational unit used to represent the company for external accounting. A company can include either one or more company codes. The company business transactions for Financial Accounting are entered, saved and evaluated at company code level.
The process of assigning company code to company creates a link between the company code and company. The only requirement for the assignment is the company and company code must be predefined.
Business area is an organizational unit of external accounting. It corresponds to a specific business segment or area of responsibility in a company. Movements value entered in Financial Accounting are assigned to business areas.
Consolidation business areas are organizational units. Consolidation business areas are formed for a fixed area of activity or responsibility within a company. In other words, consolidated business area is the business segments within a company.
If the consolidated business area is defined in the company, then its mandatory to assign business areas to consolidation business areas.