Inter-company expenses

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Consider the example:

Assume that there are 3 companies belonging to the same business group, represented as 3 different company codes, say A, B & C, in the same SAP system [P01].

Now, company A incurs expenses on behalf of companies B & C say travel expenses of the MDs of companies B & C.

CASE 1:

Inter-company clearing accounts are set-up between the company codes in the SAP system [P01] and hence Inter-company posting of expenses happen as below:

Books of A:

Dr Inter-company B A/c 5

Dr Inter-company C A/c 5

Cr Bank / Vendor for expenses 10

Books of B:

Dr MD's Travel exps A/c 5

Cr Inter-company A A/c 5

Books of C:

Dr MD's Travel exps A/c 5

Cr Inter-company A A/c 5

Can anyone let me know the relevant program through which this functionality has been enabled in SAP FI.

CASE 2:

Assume that company A is on an SAP system [P02] that is different from that of the other company codes B & C [P01].

Now, taking the same example as above, is it possible to use the same standard SAP inter-company functionality in FI to post the inter-company expenses from company A to companies B & C?

Is there is any other alternative solution ?

Some gyan please..

Bhargav

[former_member182098]

Hello,

You can post the cross company code postings even between two controlling areas. The system does not prevent to post documents between two company codes in two controlling area. Need not necessarily they should be under one operating concern. Provided you have to make sure that you have followed the following points:

In OBY6 - To company codes must be assigned to same Company, meaning that you mus thave created a Company and that company must have been assigned to these two company codes.

OBYA - You should maintain the clearing accounts in both the company codes. Meaning that you are posting one leg in one company code and the other leg in the other company. Therefore, it is required to have the missing legs in each company code.

Company Code1 - Posting Key 40 - Clearing Account

Company Code1 - Posting Key 50 - Clearing Account

Company Code2 - Positng Key 40 - Clearing Account

Company Code2 - Posting Key 50 - Clearing Account

OB08 - In case if the two company codes have different local (company code) currencies, you may maintain the exchange rates.

You can now go to F-02 and post a cross company code transaction giving the first leg in first company code and the second leg in second company code. Missing leg in the first company code will be posted to the GL Account mentioned in OBYA and the missing leg in the second company code will be posted to the GL Account mentioned in OBYA. That means you will have four line items overall.

The system will post three document.

Document 1 in First Company Code

Document 2 in Second Company Code

and

Document3 - Cross Company Code Document.

The cross company code document consists of the first company code document number plus company code plus last two digits of the fiscal year.

Hope this must have clarified your doubts.

Please let me know in case if you need further details.

Thanks,

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hello,

Thanks for your inputs.. It was helpful.

But my question is regarding cross company code transactions between company codes that are in different SAP Servers, say P01 & P02 as per my above example.

Will there be a system transfer clearing account for transferring the entry from SAP System / Server P01 to P02?

How does it work?

Pls clarify...

Bhargav

[former_member182098]

Hi,

This will not work. This are client dependant transactions.

Whatever, you are posted to limited a client. There will not be cross client clearing.

Client is a technical partition, which will have certain tables and fields limited to that client.

Regards,

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hi,

Is it not possible through ALE & IDOCs which are used for connecting two different SAP systems?

Please provide some more inputs / details.

Bhargav

[Former Member]

Hi can anybody provide solution for Bhargav's above question????????

Hi,

Is it not possible through ALE & IDOCs which are used for connecting two different SAP systems?

Please provide some more inputs / details.

Bhargav

[Former Member]

Hello please reply.

[Former Member]

Hello please reply.