Re: [sap-acct] Changing the length of gl accounts from 8 to
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 | Posted by Roy B (SAP Financials Expert) on Apr 9 at 4:02 AM |  Mark as helpful |
I would really question the entire premise on which this is
based. What is the business requirement? Why does the client
want to make this change? It is a lot of work for very
little benefit as far as I can see.
Rgds, Roy
jorgeluisramos via sap-acct wrote:
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> Even though it sound something that should be easy, it really is not... There are too many things tied to the Accounts - from the contrilling and FI side (subledgers for example). We had to do something similar - but more radical, as it was a change to the entire chart of accounts, and we resorted to creating a new company code, and performed a migration, like new implementation, but instead, it was from R/3 to R/3, so the complexity was much less. Still, a bit effort.
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> From: VitalCreemers
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 10:58 AM
> Subject: Changing the length of gl accounts from 8 to
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>> Hello, I got the question from my customer : What is the impact of changing the length of a gl account from 8 to 9. There is a need. Anybody experience with this excersise. Knowing that the chart of account is linked to a company code and also to a controlling area? Creating a new chart of account could be option but for me it is not due to the fact that it is linked to the company code and controlling area. What I could do is use the group chart of account, but this is also not an option because I will run into a mapping issue. So I think what we will need to do change the length of the operational chart of account. Create all the accounts with a length of 9. Then do a transfer from the accounts with length of 8 to accounts lenght of 9. Once the transfer is done, block all the accounts with a length of 8 or even better archive them. Any suggestions on how to do this would be usefull.
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__.____._ based. What is the business requirement? Why does the client
want to make this change? It is a lot of work for very
little benefit as far as I can see.
Rgds, Roy
jorgeluisramos via sap-acct wrote:
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> Even though it sound something that should be easy, it really is not... There are too many things tied to the Accounts - from the contrilling and FI side (subledgers for example). We had to do something similar - but more radical, as it was a change to the entire chart of accounts, and we resorted to creating a new company code, and performed a migration, like new implementation, but instead, it was from R/3 to R/3, so the complexity was much less. Still, a bit effort.
>
> ---------------Original Message---------------
> From: VitalCreemers
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 10:58 AM
> Subject: Changing the length of gl accounts from 8 to
>
>> Hello, I got the question from my customer : What is the impact of changing the length of a gl account from 8 to 9. There is a need. Anybody experience with this excersise. Knowing that the chart of account is linked to a company code and also to a controlling area? Creating a new chart of account could be option but for me it is not due to the fact that it is linked to the company code and controlling area. What I could do is use the group chart of account, but this is also not an option because I will run into a mapping issue. So I think what we will need to do change the length of the operational chart of account. Create all the accounts with a length of 9. Then do a transfer from the accounts with length of 8 to accounts lenght of 9. Once the transfer is done, block all the accounts with a length of 8 or even better archive them. Any suggestions on how to do this would be usefull.
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--
Roy Brookes AFA, FInstBA,
Senior SAP??? Financials Consultant
Tel: +49 171 268 9635 (mobile)
Tel: +49 40 793 19642 (landline)
Roy.Brookes@Hamburg.de
Roy.Brookes@RoyBrookes.com
RB@Software-Partner-Solutions.com
www.RoyBrookes.com
www.Software-Partner-Solutions.com
www.linkedin.com/in/roybrookes
SAP Expert Index Registration: CRF **42819*
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