Differing Fiscal year for Accounting & Tax purposes

What procedure needs to be followed in ECC 6.0 when the fiscal year for accounting purposes and the fiscal year for taxation purposes are different.
For Accounting - Jan to Dec: For taxn - April to March.
How to accomplish the same?
One should not extract two different financials and merge it manually. Is there any other way out?

Hi Smurthi
If my understanding is right - Your company books fiscal year is Jan to Dec and for country like India the tax book is to be maintained from April to March
If this is what you are in need off - its very well possible using Special Purpose Ledger.
Once this is configured - you will have two books as the period stated above.
Any transaction posted in SAP will go to your regular book and special purpose ledger.
At this point if you open any posted document using FB03 etc - go to the Environment -> Document Environment -> Accounting Document - you can see the Special purpose ledger document also
Warm Regards
Bala
Edited by: Balasubramanian Nagarajan on Jul 5, 2008 9:30 AM

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