Why the need for bank subaccounts?

[Former Member]

Why do we need bank subaccounts? What is the logic behind this? Why can't we use the main bank account to make outgoing or receive incoming payments?

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Bank sub accounts are generally required if Bank Reconciliation (especially Electronic Bank Reconciliation) are performed in SAP. If I try to explain in simple terms it is as follows. The bank statement received from a bank will have several transaction types such as cheque payment, deposits, EFT etc. Even if you look at the statement these transactions are identified via transaction type ( E.g. CHQ). Similarly, SAP requires these external transaction types to be mapped via Transaction Types and posting rules. Therefore ideally, there will be a different sub bank accounts created for each Cheque Payment, Deposits, Miscellaneous Debits etc. I have found this a very good process where at any given time (if bank reconciliations are performed on a daily basis) each sub account would represent Unpresented Cheques or Unrealized Deposits while the main bank account will match with the balance as per the bank statement.

Hope this was helpful.

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Nadini

[Former Member]

Hi,

In case if the incoming /Outgoing payment is from ACH and from Wire then the bank code will have the uniqueness with sub account no.

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask any more clarifications .

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Thanks, Chitras