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Jul 15, 2009 at 05:32 AM

Impact of doing mid year change in Config OB22 for Group Currency

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Dear Experts,

Currently our config in OB22 for Group Currency says that "Translation taking transaction currency as a basis" under Source Currency. Because of this reason we get problem during GR/IR transactions.

Ex: Co Code Curr = USD Group Curr = USD

GR is done for 100 EUR in Apr 2009 using 1.50 Ex Rate

And IR is done for 100 EUR in May 2009 using Ex Rate of 1.60

Difference of this Exch Rate then goes to Original Expense Account in Local Currency however in Group Currency System posts total amount to GR/IR during MIRO Transaction.

When we do clearing of GR/IR, at this time system posts the Exch Diff amount to Exch Diff Realized Account in Group Currency.

Because of this now we get different amounts in our Expense Account and Exch Diff Realized Account in LC and GC Currency. Exch Diff Account has postings in GC Currency only and Expense Account has posting in LC Currency only to the extent of Exch diff amount.

OSS Note 331910 and 335608 deal with this issue and suggest the remedial measure to change the config with "Translation taking first local currency as a basis". However it also says that

'Caution, within production systems these changes may only be made directly after year-end closings and before the start of posting in the new fiscal year.'

Now I am in a soup. As per above statement I should change the config only after year-end closings and before the start of posting in the new fiscal year.

However this scenario would not be possible to achieve since new fiscal year need to be opened before we close the current fiscal year since transactions would start from day one.

My questions are:

1) Has anyone come across this problem before? If so how the config change was achieved?

2) Why SAP Note is giving this cautionary statement? What would be the problem if we go ahead and change the config during the year?

Thanks for your valuable suggestions.

Regards,

Sanjay