Diffrent Fiscal year Variant ?

Question

Hello Friends
For the different company codes using the same controlling area must have same fiscal year variant.
But in my scenario 1 company code having period from jan to dec and another having period from April to march
Pls suggest me how we can do that?If not is there any otherway of solving this issue?
I need your suggestions
Thanks
Anup

Answer 1

Hi,
the best documentation is the <a href="http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_02/helpdata/en/da/6ada3889432f48e10000000a114084/frameset.htm">online documentation at help.sap.com</a>
From your point of view, the most important things are:
1. Define a table group in transaction GCIN. Include all fields in object table 1 that you want to report on (with the different fiscal year variant). If this is a legal requirement as I suppose, then you probably only need the GL account (RACCT) field. You may require other fields as well, depending on your requirements.
2. After the table group is defined, you have to check and install it. Installation means here the new table group is added to the Special Ledger environment, i.e., it is added to many customizing tables + lots of standard ABAP code is regenerated.
3. Now you can create a ledger for your new summary table (this is one of the 4 or 5 tables in your new table group). in transaction GCL1. You should assign the company code where the alternate fiscal year variant must be used to the new ledger. Obviously, you should change the fiscal year variant in the assignment screen to the alternate one (the default would be tha FYV that you have assigned to your company code in OBY6  , this is the controlling area's FYV as well).
4. Then you have to asign "activities", or "business transactions" to the ledger/company code combination. Use the button "Activities like GL" here to make sure all relevant items are transferred to your ledger. That would be about 30 activities. Each of them require a "field movement rule" assigned, but the same rule can be used for all, so you have to create it only once. The best way to do it directly from here (you are still in GCL1), by clicking F4 and when the message comes, no entries found, you can start creating it. The field movement rule is nothing else than the rules how fields of the original (FI, MM, SD) documents are transferred to the fields in your FI-SL table. You can check out the proposal button here. RACCT should be populed from HKONT, the rest is I think obvious.
Back to GCL1, you have to set the posting indicator for each activity (business transaction) to 3. This makes sure online data transfer and subsequent data transfer both are possible.
5. Save your work.
6. Then you can start transaction GCU1 and take over all documents available in FI to your special ledger (if you have some postings already)  . Or you can post a new document and check if it was transferred (it should). Example: in FI (fiscal year variant April to March) you post a document with posting date 01.April 2007.  This is period 1 in FI then. The same document is transferred for period 4 in the SPL.
7. You can use the Report Painter / Report Writer tools to report your data. ALso you can consider report RFBILA10, which is almost the same as well-known RFBILA00, only that it can display data from a special purpose ledger.
Hope that helps, points welcome
Csaba