Alternative account no

Hi Exps,
when i tried to post the bank downloaded file in FF_5, the program immediatly asking maintain the alternative account no. this development belongs to electronic bank statement.
we are having 4 bank accounts with different currencies. main account no i given in bank master FI12, both are same account no's.
how to solve this problem?

Hi
You need to maintain it because of the following reason:
The alternative bank account number is used for distinguishing house bank accounts with identical account numbers. This can occur if a house bank manages accounts in different currencies using the same account number.
The alternative bank account number must then only be defined if it differs from the bank account number. You must maintain it together with the bank key in the system.
If you have house bank accounts with identical account numbers and use the electronic account statement for these accounts, then you enter the internal key used by your house bank here (usually the account number with attached currency encryption). If you use the manual account statement, then you can freely assign the alternative account number. Using bank account number + currency code is, however, recommended.
Hope this is useful
S Jayaram

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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?
Thanks,
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.
Regards,
SAPFICO

Payment block code is not displayed when an alternative account is used

Hi,
we have defined an alternative account for vendors.
When posting an invoice directly in FI, the payment block field (as well as the other payment terms fields) is not displayed in the Payment tab, if the alternative account code is selected. If the alternative account is cleared - in the same document - the payment terms fields are again displayed. Changing again the alternative account field (from blank to the relevant code) have the effect of payment terms masking.
The same behavior happens during the modification of a document.
The result is that - as the invoices are posted with the payment block field posted as default, it is not possible to release those documents.
Can you give me any hint?
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Massimo

Hi
It may be a problem with Posting Keys you are using.
Go to OB41
Double click on posting key used for payment or which ever your action is for
Click on the Field status on the top
Double click on Payment Transactions
And select optional or required for the fields which you want to see
OR
Go to TCode OBC4
Select the required company code's Field status variant (whole line should be selected)
Double click on Field status groups
Double click on Reconciliation accounts (A/Payable or A/Receivable)
Double click on Payment Transactions
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Mostly first solution should work for you
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Alternative account number instead of cost elements in controlling reports

Hello.
Is there a possibility to show alternative accounts numbers from country charts of accounts instead of cost elements / account numbers from operative chart of accounts in CO reporting?
Thank you for your answer.
kind regards
Andreas

Not in a standard report.
With ABAP anything is possible. And it should be relatively easy - create the report as you want with the cost element (In report painter), have the ABAP execute the report, and in the result, swop the cost element with the alternative account.
Edited by: Piet Strydom on Jan 9, 2009 11:40 AM

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
G/L account company code SKB1_FS
G/L account line item BSIS_FS
Since the "Alternative Account Number" is not included in the structure SKB1_FS in the standard delivery, please implement the enhancement as described in Note 945932. To include more fields in the custom selections of transaction FAGLL03, you can enhance the structures using an APPEND.
Regards,
Gaurav

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?
Rgds
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 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.

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?
Thaks on advance.
Roberto Lena

Hi Roberto,
The account used in the payment run is based on Housbank- Payment method , currency, Account ID
When you assign these vendors to an other combination you can have an other clearing account.
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Financial Statement and Alternative Account Number (China)

Hi all,
I have created a nice financial statement based on "normal" GL account number, and through this I can have a nice formatted balance sheet and profit and loss account.
For china, I need the financial statement with the alternative account number displayed. For example: My normal GL Account is 181000, and alternative account number is 10010101 .
During running the F.01 - Balance sheet, I check the options of "alternative account number" under the tab of special evaluations, but the output of the balance sheet and profit and loss does not give me a nice format.
All of the accounts are displayed under section Account not assigned (This is because alternative account number is 10010101 is not assigned to the financial statement version).
Could anyone advise how to overcome this problem?
Thanks.

Ok ...
I half way solve my problem with the following reference:
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-acct/country-specific-coa-1453275
There is another issue of my Financial statement:
The following is my scenario:
I have Operational Chart Of Account, OCA1, and GL's are as followings:
GL1000 linked with alternative GL account (GL9001 - Chart of account - ACA1)
GL2000 linked with alternative GL account (GL9002 - Chart of account - ACA1)
GL3000 linked with alternative GL account (GL9003 - Chart of account - ACA1)
GL4000 No link to any alternative GL (because does not use or need this)
My Financial statement version is FSV9, made up (must be, based on my testing) using GL Account (which are GL9001 and GL9002) and chart of account is ACA1.
During the financial statement F.01, the GL4000 ends up with the following message at the bottom of the financial statement: <b>No alternative acct no.maintained for G/L acct 4000 in co.code ....</b>
Note: GL4000 does not have any balances.
Note: If GL4000 has balances, it is displayed under un-assigned section, and the value does not affect the profit and loss od the statement.
Question: How can I solve the issue:
1) Do not display the GL4000, which does not have alternative GL account.

Alternative account no. in FS00

Hello Friends,
Can u explain the concept of Alternative account no.and how it will be used or helpful in transactions?

HI,
The Alternative Account No. can be used in case you want to maintain reference account number of your legacy system so that whenever you are uploading the balances you can check rather match with your legacy system. Though it has a drop down it does not check whether data is maintained or not.
I hope you have understood use of Alternative Account No. in FS00.
Regards
Tejas

Alternative Account Number in House Bank Definition

Hi
What is the use of Alternative Account Number in Definining House Bank through FI12.
Yogesh

Hello,
Please read F1 help. It is clearly mentioned.
Test copied below:
Alternative Bank Acct Number (for Ambiguous Acct Number)
The alternative bank account number is used for distinguishing house bank accounts with identical account numbers. This can occur if a house bank manages accounts in different currencies using the same account number.
The alternative bank account number must then only be defined if it differs from the bank account number. You must maintain it together with the bank key in the system.
If you have house bank accounts with identical account numbers and use the electronic account statement for these accounts, then you enter the internal key used by your house bank here (usually the account number with attached currency encryption). If you use the manual account statement, then you can freely assign the alternative account number. Using bank account number + currency code is, however, recommended.
Regards,
Ravi

Changing the alternative account number

Hi all,
Is it possible to change once assigned alternative account number that has already been posted to?
Thanks!!
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

Hi
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?
rgds
eddielim

Hi Eddielim,
You can do this with a special GL indicator.
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One as vendor recon account and
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Assign the vendor recon account, created above, to this indicator.
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Alternative account Number in G/L

Hello experts,
We have a company that besides the usual balance structure uses also an alternative one for its country.
When I run the Balance sheet query with the normal hierarchy I can see all the nodes correctly. But when I use the one for its country I can see only one node (Not Assigned Fincl Statement Item) with all the account numbers inside.
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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.
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