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RE: [sap-acct] Changing the length of gl accounts from 8 to

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Posted by VitalCreemers
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Let me expalin...we are in the public. The chart of account is not aoffical yet. In belgian you have an offical chart of account not only in private sector but also in the public sector. The climate is also changing that they change the way they have to do the accounting. Last year the law was not yet approved but we had to set up a company according to the new laws. Now the authorities have come up with a chart of account with one additional digit. I know that his could have avoided if customer would have used the full lengt of 10 from the beginning, but he did not want to add 0 at the end of the account. So now I a facing the problem of changing the length to 9.



Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:00:33 +0200
From: sap-acct@Groups.ITtoolbox.com
To: crvi69@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [sap-acct] Changing the length of gl accounts from 8 to

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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> ---------------Original Message---------------
> 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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