Banks in SAP

In a financial system, Banks always are important.

Banks in SAP are used by the company codes for several purposes (payments, etc).

Companies have the House Banks, identified in the system as a unique Bank Id. The house banks have bank accounts, in this case identified with a Bank Account ID.

Taking into account theses concepts, the bank master data will contain the house bank id, the account numbers ids and the corresponding banks GL (and other information).

To Define House Banks, SAP provides transaction FI12 or following this path:

IMG->Financial Accounting (new)->Bank Accounting->Bank Accounts->Define House Banks

The definition of the rest of the banks (banks of customers or vendors) is done in SAP menu, using transaction FI01 or following the path:

SAP Menu->Accounting->Financial Accounting->Banks->Master Data->Bank Master Data->FI01 – Create

Field Status Group

Thanks for your patient! Some weeks after my last post, today I am talking briefly about the “Field Status Group”.

The FSG determines the fields to be entered in a document during the posting process. With the proper use of the FSG you could decide the mandatory, optional or hidden fields during the process.

The screen where you are entering data will reflect exactly your decision of hide or not, set as mandatory or not, the defined process.

The path in customizing to set the FSG is:

SAP Customizing Implemantion Guide-> Entreprise Controlling->Consolidation->Intergration: Preparation for Consolidation->Preparation in the Sender System->Further Settings for Business Area Consolidations->Financial Accounting->Maintain Field Status Groups for G/L Accounts

Number Ranges for Accounting Documents

Document number, a key concept used every day in our SAP work. 

Have you ever asked how this number is generated? In this post you have the response.

SAP standard transaction to manage Number Ranges for Accounting Documents is FBN1
Also you can access following in customizing following path:

SAP Customizing Implementation Guide-> Financial Accounting (New) -> Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) -> Document -> Document Number Ranges -> Document in Entry View -> Define Document Number Ranges for Entry View

In the first screen, you have to enter the Company Code because document ranges depends on it.

In the second screen to set the ranges, you will see that document ranges for accounting also depends on fiscal year.

During each fiscal year, it is specified the range to be used when an accounting document is created, and for your information also you can see in the last document number created.