Addition of the Alternative Account Number in FB50

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can anyone guide me as to how I can see the Alternative account number from the GL master at the time of posting a journal in FB50.

I tried to find and add the field on to the data structure ACGL_ITEM - but I havent been able to.

any tips on how I can achieve this?

Thank you very much

R

[former_member182098]

Is there any business requirement for this?

Thanks and Regards,

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hello Ravi

Yes there is.

we are implementing a global rollout and want to curtail the number of GL accounts -

For example, the main bank accounts - as per client requirement, they want the name of the bank as the GL description, however, due to the GL description being on the chart of accounts segment, this would not be possible. Therefore, we thought of creating a generice GL Account as - Main Bank account - and then assigning it to an alternative account number which would have the respective bank name and then trying to bring the alternative account description on the journal entry screen.

So at the time of document creation, the user will be able to see the bank account he/she is posting to

Thats the business reason

thanks much

R

[former_member182098]

I am not clear quite about your requirement. But, for me it looks you are going in a wrong direction.

I have also participated in roll out project for multi countries, but never had this kind of requirement.

I would never touch my bank main account in any case. The bank main accounts are always to be picked up by the system only. I would never use in the life of SAP main bank account in FB50. You should restrict that way. If you are trying to post something to bank main account in FB50, you can never do bank reconciliation, plus the data integrity of the bank main account will be defeated.

As far as bringing a new field into FB50 is cumbersome task, always recommended not to go against standard way of SAP functionality. Therefore, please forget brining a field into FB50.

Many Thanks,

Ravi

[narasimhulu_konnipati]

We can try for the all available possibilities like BTE, User exits... in SAP for user requirement, but shouldn't go against to SAP.

Alternative account number will be used for Country specific chart of accounts. Correct me if i am wrong.

As Ravi said above, it seems you are in other direction instead convincing the user or explaining the possibility.

Hope you understand

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi Both,

thank you very much for the input. I think taking the bank was a bad example.

My main issue here is that, the description field on the GL master is on the chart of accounts segment. Whereas, the client wants to use the same account with a differing description for the different entities - which is not possible on standard or even otherwise. They are very insistant not to have a generic name on the description field so that it maybe used by al the entities.

What is my alternative to this? I have read many threads but none of them can help me. I have already communicated to the client that this is not possible and they may need to rethink the descriptions but in the meantime, i was exploring other possibilities aswell

Thanks much

R

[former_member182098]

Are the differing entities use the same login language. If they are using different language, you can maintain the entries in SKAT table. Usually in one of our roll out project have this kind of requirement but fortunately, the other company codes use a different log on language, hence, I was successfully able to maintain different text for same account of the chart of account.

But, if the entities are using same log in language, then there is no other option, they should go for different GL accounts. Going with different GL accounts per entity would have a clear advantage for them in future in terms of flexibility of reporting requirements.

Regards,

Ravi

[venkata_rangiah]

Hi,

Same issue we faced one of our rollout project. Some of the Company codes are  also using  same language English, we could not able to change the descriptin of the G/L Account according to our client. Then we explore the option of activating Country Chart of Accounts and assign Country G/L Account  to the existing  G/L Account. Some extent  this was satisfied our client requirement.

Note: We can assign Country G/L accounts to Operating G/L account only there is no postings in operating G/L accounts.

Regards,

Venkata RP

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi, Hi Venkata,

I already tried the language option, unfortunately, we have more than 7 countries using EN as their log on language.

and my next option was the country chart of accounts and then trying to populate that field on the FB50 and hence this message to SDN.

So then that means there is no other way is there

Thanks for the input

R

[former_member182098]

Please see if you can explore following SAP Notes:

Note 1569216 - ENJOY: Screen variant & generic fields in SAPLFSKB 0100

Note 841884 - Customer fields in the Enjoy entry transactions

See also other related SAP notes.

Regards,

Ravi