Financial Accounting Global Settings

Document Change Rules are helping when you want to define fields which should be maintainable after initial entry. Sometimes you will need to change the document header text or other field on later stage through entering to a document in change mode.   Transaction: S_ALR_87003720 IMG Path: Financial Accounting (New) -> Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) -> Document -> Rules for Changing Documents -> Document Change Rules, Document Header Table: TBAER   When you open the transaction you will get the lest of the current header rules. To create new Header Rule, click on the …

Posting Keys area helping additionally to control the transaction entries in SAP ERP. You could have several posting keys for the same type of sub-ledger which will help you to imply different controls on postings made from different transaction codes. Transaction: OB41 IMG Path: Financial Accounting (New) -> Financial Accounting Global Settings -> Document -> Define Posting Keys Table: TBSL   When you open the transaction, you could either create new posting key by click on New Entries Button or edit already created one by double click.   If you want to create new one, …

Defining a document number ranges is important step in the overall process of document type creation. You could have external and internal managed number ranges. The internal ranges are auto-incremented from the system while the external ranges are assigned manually/automatically from interfaces with other modules or systems. You are able to define number ranges with alphanumeric names. Therefore you are able to define number ranges with the same name as your document types which will help you to follow and maintain them afterwards. You could also share one number range to two or more document …

In Global Financial Accounting Settings you could define Document Types. Those are used to control and segregate your entry transactions based on the business processes you defined. The SAP ERP is coming with plenty of standard document types which will would be nice if you can use out of the box. It will ease your maintenance. Transaction: OBA7 IMG Path: Financial Accounting (New) -> Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) -> Document -> Define Document Types for Entry View Table: T003, T003T     When you enter into the transaction, click on “New Entries” to create …

When we have already defined Field Status Variant and related Field Status Groups, it is time to assign our Field Status Variant to a Company Code. For one company code you could have only one field status variant, however you are able to assign one field status variant to several company codes. Transaction: OBC5 IMG Path: Financial Accounting (New) -> Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) -> Ledgers -> Fields -> Assign Company Code to Field Status Variants Table: T001     When you open the transaction screen, find your company code and assign field status …