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Hi,
I work for an Australian company which has recently been privatised, with 50% now being owned by a US investment company.
We suspect now that we may need to provide Financial reporting information which complies with the GAAP requirements on behalf of the American Investment company.
Is anyone able to provide any background information or feedback or hints on what we may expect in relation to needing to provide information accorinding to the GAAP requirements? Any information, such as standard reports in SAP, or processes or features in SAP which fulfill these reporting requirements would be appreciated.
We run SAP version 4.6c (SD, FI, CO, MM, Purchasing).
Thanks
Kevin

The standard SAP functionality addressing the issues of multiple accounting standards and reporting requirement is parallel ledger functionality. This is with the ECC 6.0 version.
You may need to first upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0 and then go for the functional upgrade implementing the New GL functionality with parallel ledger addressing this issue.
However , the other option is to have the additional general ledger accounts for US GAAP specifc accounting entries in the areas of difference from Australian GAAP.
Regards,
Mamta Sarda

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