Account Determination w/o wizard.

Question

Hi,
Please guide me on the following,.
Whenever any goods movement takes place within plant , how does the system finds which G/L to be posted to.?
Also is there any relation between goods movement and account determination.?
Also when we customize for Automatic account determination without wizard, what are the different accounts are covered in it?
i.e. Whether various tax accounts, recon accounts, inventory accounts, freight accounts etc. are covered in the account determination?
Thanks in advance..
Bhasker

Answer 1

When entering the goods movement, the user does not have to enter a G/L   
account, since the R/3 System automatically finds the accounts to which   
postings are to be made using the following data:                         
o  Chart of accounts of the company code                                  
    If the user enters a company code or a plant when entering a           
    transaction, the R/3 System determines the chart of accounts which is  
    valid for the company code.                                            
    You must define the automatic account determination individually for   
    each chart of accounts.                                                
o  Valuation grouping code of the valuation area                          
    If the automatic account determination within a chart of accounts is   
    to run differently for certain company codes or plants (valuation      
    areas), assign different valuation grouping codes to these valuation   
    areas.                                                                 
    You must define the automatic account determination individually for   
    every valuation grouping code within a chart of accounts. It applies   
    to all valuation areas which are assigned to this valuation grouping   
    code.                                                                  
    If the user enters a company code or a plant when entering a           
    transaction, the system determines the valuation area and the          
    valuation grouping code.                                               
o  Transaction/event key (internal processing key)                        
    Posting transactions are predefined for those inventory management and 
    invoice verification transactions relevant to accounting. Posting      
    records, which are generalized in the value string, are assigned to    
    each relevant movement type in inventory management and each           
    transaction in invoice verification. These contain keys for the        
    relevant posting transaction (for example, inventory posting and       
    consumption posting) instead of actual G/L account numbers.            
    You do not have to define these transaction keys, they are determined  
    automatically from the transaction (invoice verification) or the       
    movement type (inventory management). All you have to do is assign the 
    relevant G/L account to each posting transaction.                      
o  Account grouping (only for offsetting entries, consignment             
      liabilities, and price differences)                                       
Since the posting transaction "Offsetting entry for inventory posting"    
is used for different transactions (for example, goods issue,             
scrapping, physical inventory), which are assigned to different           
accounts (for example, consumption account, scrapping, expense/income     
from inventory differences), it is necessary to divide the posting        
transaction according to a further key: account grouping code.            
An account grouping is assigned to each movement type in inventory        
management which uses the posting transaction "Offsetting entry for       
inventory posting".                                                       
Under the posting transaction "Offsetting entry for inventory             
posting", you must assign G/L accounts for every account grouping,        
that is, assign G/L accounts.                                             
If you wish to post price differences to different price difference       
accounts in the case of goods receipts for purchase orders, goods         
receipts for orders, or other movements, you can define different         
account grouping codes for the transaction key.                           
Using the account grouping, you can also have different accounts for      
consignment liabilities and pipeline liabilities.                         
Valuation class of material or (in case of split valuation) the           
valuation type                                                            
The valuation class allows you to define automatic account                
determination that is dependent on the material. for example: you post    
a goods receipt of a raw material to a different stock account than if    
the goods receipt were for trading goods, even though the user enters     
the same transaction for both materials.                                  
You can achieve this by assigning different valuation classes to the      
materials and by assigning different G/L accounts to the posting          
transaction for every valuation class.                                    
If you do not want to differentiate according to valuation classes you    
do not have to maintain a valuation class for a transaction.