About account type?

[Former Member]

hey friends

When  I maintain the posting periods,i found every variant have five account types,it is A/D/K/M/S,It can be achieved through different accounts accounting control.But my question is  I found no where as the accounts  maintain account type, account and account type how to link up?

thanks very much.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Chaofeng Yi,

Account type is denoted by a 1 character code such as follows:

A- Assets

D-Customer

K-Vendor

M-Materials

S-General Ledger

These account types, are linked with document types.  The document type is denoted by 2 character code such as follows:

Generally Used Document Types
Document Types	Description
SA	GL Document
KR	Vendor Invoice
KN	Vendor Invoice - Net
KA	Vendor Document
DA	Customer Document
DR	Customer Invoice
AA	Asset Accounting Doc
AF	Depreciation Postings
AB	Accounting Document (generally used for clearing or reversing)
RE	Vendor Invoice (Thru Logistics Invoice Verification)
WA	Goods Issue
WE	Goods Receipt
ZA	Payment Document

In the above document types, 1st character represents the Account Type and the 2nd character indicates the type of postings.

For Example: KR

Here K represents the Account Type - Vendor and R represents Invoice.

The document types are used in various postings and helps to classify and accounting transactions within the system.

Hope, now you will understand how the account types are linked with the document types.

Regards,

Umamageshwaran.S

[Former Member]

Hi,

Sorry i didn't get your query completely.

If you are asking how you will differentiate account types with A/D/K/M/S ...

1. If you create a Asset it will automatically treated as "A". And for Asset posting "AA/AF" document type will be used in general.

2. If you create a Customer it will automatically treated as "D". And for Customer posting "DG/DA/DZ" document type will be used in general.

3. If you create a Vendor it will automatically treated as "K". And for Vendor posting "KR/KA/KZ/KG" document type will be used in general.

4. If you create a Material it will automatically treated as "M".

5. If you create a Normal gl codes with fs00 it will automatically treated as "S". Document type "SA" will be created.

Document types are highly customizable so the main idea is the creation stage which determines the categorization of "A/D/K/M/S" ...

Hope it answers your doubt.

Rewards points if helpful.

Regards,

Prayas

[Former Member]

Hi

The posting key determines the account type. Posting keys are differentiated by customer, vendor and G/L accounts. Apart from the General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (Account Type S) and Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-AR/AP) (Account Type D & K) components, there are also posting keys for asset (Account Type A) and material accounts (Account Type M).
The document type and posting key specifies which account types you can post to. A posting key can only be entered for an account type which is permitted for that document type.

Please refer the link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/96/8b3ee943ce11d189ee0000e81ddfac/content.htm

Thanks

Naresh K.

[Former Member]

hi,Naresh K.

   Thanks for your answer,i  think your answer is right.thank you.

[Former Member]

You are most welcome

[former_member222730]

Hi Chaofeng,

SAP Provided some Account types such as

Account type                                    Document Type

K-Vendors                                  KR,KZ,KA,KG               

D-Customers                               DR,DG,DA,DZ,

A-Assets                                     AA,AF

S-General Ledger accounts           SA

M-Materials

Document type is 2 digits alphanumeric key.the first letter of document type identified as ACCOUNT TYPE.

Ex. While posting VENDOR INVOICE Document type we will KR ,Kindicates Vendors and R invoice.

Regards

Chakri.

[Former Member]

Hi Chaofeng,

It will link up in T.code is OBA7 u ll search the all documents types like SAP Provided some Account types such as a

Account type                                    Document Type

S-GL accounts                                       SA

K-Vendors                                             KR,

                                                              KZ,

                                                              KA,

                                                              KG              

D-Customers                                      DR,

                                                         DG,

                                                         DA,

                                                         DZ,

A-Assets                                     AA,

                                                  AF

M-Materials

Document type is 2 digits alphanumeric key.the first letter of document type identified as ACCOUNT TYPE.

Regards

Naga