1.
Cost accounting and accounting:
You
must assign a Cross-company code cost accounting is possible each company code.
Costing uses this chart of accounts, namely, that the accounts of the scheme of
operation of the revenue and expense accounts in financial accounting and can
be cost or items of income in respect of cost accounting.
If
your organization, composed of several company codes (for example, a global company)
is different chart of accounts, it should be noted that accounting is only the
operating chart of accounts connected. How do you organize your chart of
accounts, depending on the level of the hierarchy where you want to implement
cost accounting?
There
are two basic methods for the organization’s chart of accounts.
Central Organization:
At
Group level, a chart of accounts is defined that contains all accounts and can
be used by all company codes. This chart of accounts is the Cross-company code cost accounting is possible all company codes. In order to meet
the specific needs of the country, you can add an additional graphics (country-specific)
List of accounts for each company code.
Advantage:
Cross-company
code cost accounting is possible. The consolidated according to the working
table of the accounts, the corporate group chart of accounts is carried out.
The accountants cannot work with their own specific tables for each country of
accounts.
Decentralized organization:
Each
company code uses his card country-specific chart of accounts as a function of
the accounts. For consolidation, the corporate group chart of accounts in
addition to indicate for each company code.
Advantage:
Accountants can work in their own country-specific
tables of accounts. You cannot consolidate data, with the corporate group chart
of accounts.
Group
management accounts for country –specific Cross Central Group of companies is a
corporate code of local needs Distributed Code company accounts for specific
corporate group needs of the country.
2.
Translating an account:
Use:
In
addition to the account number of an account master record in the G / L chart
of accounts contains the names of the accounts. The translation function, it is
possible to account names G / L for the languages you need to translate.
The
translation function is particularly useful if you have a chart of accounts
with a different company codes that use different languages. Since you have a
chart of accounts in a language called the language maintenance, create the
account names to be translated into other languages required.
The
account name is displayed when the publication of accounts G / L and during the
account creation or modification of G / L master records. If the names have
been translated, the accountants in different countries to see the name appear
in the language in which they are registered in the system. If there is no
translation for a particular language not sees your language maintenance when
posting to the account.
Use
the chart of accounts INT International, which applies to the group of
companies. The corporate language is English. The English language is therefore
the maintenance of the chart of accounts. They translate the name in German for
the German company codes. An employee who accesses German is German; the
account name appears in German when making reservations.
3.
Change the ' Account List:
If
you want changes in the decision-making process of the accounts , consider the
following :
Change the language maintenance:
You
can change the language maintenance. However, you can only language key to the
languages in which it
has already been translated to the chart of accounts.
Deleting an account:
You
can only delete a chart from the account, if you do not already have this chart
of accounts is that you may have created an account G / L accounts for this plan,
you have created.
