2 alternative accounts in GL master

Hi All,
We have a special requirement where the client is changing over to a new chart of accounts for their country and are exploring the possibility of maintaining a second alternative account in the master records of the new GL accounts (i.,e they want to maintain 2 alternative accounts in the GL Master).
can any one please let me know if this is possible and if so, please provide us the procedure to be followed in SAP for the same.
Thanks & Regards
Phaneendra

Hello,
Two alternative accounts cannot be maintained in GL Account.
You can however maintain one alternative account and one group GL account in your operating COA GL account.
Regards,
Ravi

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Alternative account number in GL master record

can any one help me to define what is the use of alternative account number in gl master record as i am new in this line.
sanjay pradhan

Hi
The alternative account number field in the company code area is freely definable. You could use it to enter:
1) The account number from your legacy system or
2) The account number from a country chart of accounts if your corporate group uses a standard chart of accounts.
You might want to use a standard chart of accounts worldwide. However, the usage of another chart of accounts is required by law in some company codes. By using the Alternative account number, the connection between the account in the worldwide standard chart of accounts and the account in the country chart of accounts can be set up.

How to set an alternative GL Account in the master record of a GL - ASAP

Hi Gurus,
Please help me asap to maintain a mapping table with the alternative account number functionality provided in the GL accounts master record which we can use unique for particular entity only.
Also pls let me know whether Alternative GL Account field is available as an Input parameter in any of the Report.
Thanks in advance....
regards,
Dev

Hi,
1.Create a chart of accounts andassign this chart of account as country chart of account in the global company code parameters.
2. Link the respective GL account through the "alternative account number" field in the company code tab.
3. You cannot give the "alternative account" number as input in any of the reports.
4.But Trial Balance and FSV can be displayed with "alternative account number" field by selecting the alternative account check box in one of the input tabs.
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Shivappriya

Alternative Account number in G/L Master Data

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Can any one tell me the importance of alternative account no. in G/L Master Data.
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kumar.

Hi,
The alternative account number field in the company code area is freely definable. You could use it to enter:
1. the account number from your legacy system or
2. the account number from a country chart of accounts if your corporate group uses a standard chart of accounts.
The alternative account number is only issued in the financial statement if you explicitly assign it to the relevant items in the financial statement version.
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Alternative account number issue for GL master

Hi,
There is one GL.100000 is extended in two company codes.
Company code : A (Balance available)
Company code: B(Balance available)
Whenever I change the alternative account in company code A, it is accepting whereas company code B is not accepting and showing error message : FH007.
What might be the issue?
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Swapna.

Hi,
Postings might be done In the second company code. It might be the reason.
Check with the below link
Message no. FH007 while assigning Alternative account number
GL Alternative Acct Number - error message FH007
regards,
Radhika.
Edited by: Balaji Radhika on Apr 5, 2010 1:39 PM

Alternative Account number - using as a custom field/Issues in reports pull

Hi All,
Requirement:
Create a new field in the GL master that will link through to a new 8 to 10 character new Chart of Accounts (COA).
We are presently using the "Group Account number" field from the GL master for reporting purposes through a Group COA. So this won't be available for our new purpose. Instead of creating a custom field and pulling the data, I'm thinking to use Country Chart of Accounts to fill this gap by using "Alternative Account Number" in GL Control data tab.
I created a new Country COA and assigned it to Operational COA. Created new GL account (FS00) and also created a new Country Chart of Accounts (FSP0) at Chart of Accounts level and assigned this to the created GL (FS00). In this process I got couple of issues
1) System didn't allow me to assign Country COA GL if already has the balance, and tried to change this error message in OBA5 without success. How can I add newly crated Alternative a/cs to the existing (balanced) GL A/cs?
2) This time I created brand new GL a/c and added the alternative a/c and created new Financial Statement Version (FSV) assigned the newly crated a/cs but I couldn't run the reports on this new COA, getting following error message "Company codes and charts of accounts entered are incompatible" when executing F.01/F.08.
3) May be silly to ask - why we are not maintaining the Alternative a/c at Company Code level (FSS0)? Why we are only maintaining at Chart of Accounts level (FSP0)?
Would be glad if any one touch this area deep enough to understand easily

Hi
The system will update the amount at company code level GL only. You can post the entries at company code gl only, no option to post the transaction figures at chart of accounts level. So the group COA or country level COA will pick up the transactional data from the GL at country level. Remaining level GLs are link with the country level COA.

Country chart of accounts and alternative account No.

Hello Experts
we're using country chart of accounts and alternative account No. to fullfill FICO China localization, now I have below questions:
1, In manual FI posting in company code of china, eg. by transaction code FB01, which account number is used for this posting? Account number in operational chart of accounts or account number in country chart of accounts?
2, The alternative account No. in country chart of accounts also needs to be created with compnay code level master?
Or we just need create account in operational chart of accounts with company code level master?
3, If we use account in operational chart of accounts for FI posting by company code of China, after posing, two accounting documents are generated, one with account in operational chart of accounts? Another one with account in country chart of accounts?
4. Country chart of accounts is used for consolication purpose? Is there some difference with group chart of accounts?
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Nicole

Hi Nicole,
1, In manual FI posting in company code of china, eg. by transaction code FB01, which account number is used for this posting? Account number in operational chart of accounts or account number in country chart of accounts?
> Account No. in Operation Chart of Accounts is always used for FI posting. Alternative Account No. is always for information purpose.
2, The alternative account No. in country chart of accounts also needs to be created with compnay code level master?
Or we just need create account in operational chart of accounts with company code level master?
> You only create Operational Chart of Accounts for posting. Alternative Account No. can be of two types 1):-is a freely definable text and you don't have any chart of Account for that, for example say legacy No. 2) The Account No. from a country Chart of Accounts, in this case you create a GL in Country Chart of Accounts.
3, If we use account in operational chart of accounts for FI posting by company code of China, after posing, two accounting documents are generated, one with account in operational chart of accounts? Another one with account in country chart of accounts?
> Not True. Only Operation Chart of Accounts will get posted. In the Alternative Account No., the Alternate Account No. will get populated.
4. Country chart of accounts is used for consolidation purpose? Is there some difference with group chart of accounts?
> No. Country Chart of Account is used for External reporting.. Group Chart of Account is used for Consolidation.
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Display Alternative Account in Additional Data screen of FB03

Dear SAP experts,
Transaction code FB03's screen does have an alternative account column. But I want to display
Alternative account when I click on each account (in line item of FB03 screen) or display
alternative account in Additional Data screen of FB03. I don't know how to do it.
Does anyone here know about configuring this, please help me.
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Maxielight.

Hi,
To display the "Alternative Account Number" field in report of the new General Ledger, please proceed as follows:
1) Implement Note 895609 and 939649.
2) To display "Alternative Account Number" in the line layout variant, proceed as follows:
- Call transaction O7R3 and add BSEG-LOKKT as special field.
- Then change the line layout variant. The system now displays the "Alternative Account Number" field.
3) In the line item display in the classic General Ledger (transaction FBL3N), you could enhance the custom selections in transaction SE36 as described in Note 310886. However, in the new General Ledger, the custom selection in transaction FAGLL03 has different sub-areas. Each of these areas corresponds to a structure:
G/L account master record SKA1_FS
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Using alternative accounts to payments on F110

We are posting with alternative reconciliation account to post invoices for asset fixed acquisition with vendors because vendors are ocacional vendors of asset fixed. On payment with F110 transaction we need use diferents accounts on posting payment depends on the account post on the invoice.
Sap tell us that the system use for all postings the account of the reconciliation account onvendor master and never use the alternative account used on the document.
Do you know solutions of this problem?
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Roberto Lena

Hi Roberto,
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Hi all,
Is it possible to change once assigned alternative account number that has already been posted to?
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D.

Hi,
Please see the solution given by Brendan O'Brien for the thread "GL Alternative Acct Number - error message FH007" in this forum.
Anyway, I am copying the text from the same thread. Hope this should be useful to you.
If you have a "Country-specific chart of accounts" assigned to the GL Account then it is correct that you cannot change the alternative Account number.
However if you do not have a "Country-specific chart of accounts" Assigned and yet you still cannot make this change
See note 305203. This note will prevent this message where no "Country-specific chart of accounts" is assigned.
If you do have a "Country-specific chart of accounts" assigned then unfortunately you cannot change this error message, as FH007 is hardcoded as an error.
However, a possible workaround which you may like to try could be:
Deassign the country chart of accounts from OBY6,the company code global settings. Then it is possible to enter an alternative account number on the G/L master record irrespective of whether there is a balance on the account or not. Once the alternative account number is saved, reassign the country chart of accounts to the company code.
However, as displayed, your account balancee is infact zero.
The note will prevent the error message FH 007 where no "Country-specific chart of accounts" has been assigned to the corresponding company code. However, in your case, it sounds like you have a "Country-specific chart of accounts" assigned to the company code. Hence the error message.
I hope that this information helps.
Thanks,
Ravi

Posting with alternative accounts

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I have a situation whereby the users would like to post to an alternative accounts instead of the recon accounts that has been maintained in the vendor or customer master data.
Question:
Customers and vendors will have their own recon accounts. On certain cases the users wants to post to other account instead of the one maintained in the master data
How do I go about it in posting to such alternative accounts?
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eddielim

Hi Eddielim,
You can do this with a special GL indicator.
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Another one as customer recon account
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Go to OBXY, maintain an indicator ( a single alphabet/numeric)
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Assign the vendor recon account, created above, to this indicator.
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RFBILA00 Alternative account number Missing

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I assigned operating general ledger accounts to financial statement version, and in GL master data, i have already assigned alternative account number to them. but when i run RFBILA00 report, i turn on "accounts with zero balance" " ALV grid control", in the following result screen, i can get the correct report tree and accounts assignment, but when i show alternative account number field, all of them are blank. what's wrong with it? i would like to see all these alternative account numbers, and i checked some SAP notes, found they can not resolve this problem.
Do you have any suggestions on this issue?
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FAGLL03 alternative account description

Hi guys,
We are working with group accounts in Group chart of accounts (f.e. CAXX) and depending alternative accounts in Local chart of accounts (f.e. CAFR).
When consulting FAGLL03 (Display line items) you can choose to display group account numbers or switch to alternative account numbers (via Settings - Layout - Current header rows --> and change characteristic ).
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Is there a way to display alternative account number AND alternative account description in FAGLL03?
regards

Herman,
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There is no provision for Alternative account description.
Rgds
Murali. N

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we are having 4 bank accounts with different currencies. main account no i given in bank master FI12, both are same account no's.
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Hi
You need to maintain it because of the following reason:
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