Save your data.

Save your data.

6-1-4 Now post a G/L account document to your company code AA##. SAP Easy Access Menu  Accounting  Financial Accounting  General

Ledger  Posting  Enter G/L Account Document

Enter the remaining data as described in the exercise text.

Pay for the office supplies from petty cash. Use the following accounts: 405200 (consumption office supplies) => Debit item 100000 (petty cash) => Credit item Enter the document, in the amount of €69.60 gross, with today’s date, currency EUR, and 16% VAT (=> tax code VN) Choose cost center T- F05A## as the CO-relevant account assignment.

Before you post, go to the Detail tab page and set the Calculate Tax checkbox. Simulate and save the document.

6-1-5 Display the document. … SAP Easy Access Menu  Accounting  Financial Accounting  General

Ledger  Posting  Enter G/L Account Document Choose menu path Document  Display

... You should now be able to call ledger N#, in addition to the leading ledger 0L, in the general ledger view. …

Press the Other Ledger button

... What do you notice about the document in ledger N#, for example, when you view the posting documents or (on the other side) the CO account assignment (=> cost center)?

Answer: The posting amounts are the same as in the leading ledger, because items are posted to all ledgers by default. The cost center characteristic is not displayed (or updated) in ledger N#, because the Cost Center Update scenario has not been defined for ledger N#.

6-2

Foreign currency valuation using more than one ledger

6-2-1 You will now enter different amounts in the different ledger, due

to valuation differences. To do so, use the foreign currency valuation again for your two open customer items (from the exercise in unit 5).

Because the ledger approach in New General Ledger Accounting

posts different valuation accounts to the different ledgers, but to

the same accounts, the account determination as you maintained it in the exercise in unit 5 will suffice. You now have create (another) valuation area (in FI) again and a valuation method. To carry out the foreign currency valuation, you also need accounting principles.

Create an additional valuation area in FI Customizing. … Customizing: Financial Accounting (New)  General Ledger Accounting (New)

 Periodic Processing  Valuate  Define Valuation Areas Choose menu path Edit  New Entries

Enter the remaining data as described in the exercise text.

... The ID of the new valuation area should have two letters. The first letter of every group is “I”. The “I” stands for “International” in this example. Select the second letter for your group from the following table:

Group 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Letter

M N OPQR

Examples: Group 1 uses the letter Z => the ledger ID is IZ Group 5 uses the letter E => the ledger ID is IE ….

Enter the following data for the new ledger: Area: I# (=> # stands for the second letter from the above table) Valuation method: Leave blank (for now) Currency type: Company code currency Additional currency types: (=> “Addt CT”): Leave blank Balance sheet structure (=>”BalStr”): Leave blank or INT Long text: International valuation area gr. ##

6-2-2 Also create a valuation method in Customizing. … Customizing: Financial Accounting (New)  General Ledger Accounting (New)

 Periodic Processing  Valuate  Define Valuation Methods Choose menu path Edit  New Entries

... Name your new valuation method I## and define it with the following

data:

Description: International valuation for average rate, group ## Valuation procedure: Always valuate Document type: SA Exchange rate type for debit/credit balance: M for both