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CORTES
Fiscal Year Variant
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Fiscal Year Variant
Specifies the accounting fiscal yearfor reporting purposes
Special periods are created to aid inthe quarterly or year-end
adjustingprocess completed prior to preparingfinancial
statements
A single fiscal year variant isassigned to each company code
To separate business transactions
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Client
CompanyChart ofAccounts
Fiscal YearVariant
CompanyCode
Organizational Structure
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Credit Control Area
An organizational unit or area ofresponsibility created to
controlcustomer credit limits
A company code is assigned to oneand only one credit control
area
Multiple company codes can beassigned to one credit control
area
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Client
CompanyChart ofAccounts
CompanyCode
Fiscal YearVariant
Credit ControlArea
Organizational Structure
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Client
CompanyChart of
Accounts
Company
Code
Fiscal Year
Variant
Credit Control
Area
Organizational Structure
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Consolidation and Business
AreasCompany A company is an organizational unit in
Financial
Accounting which represents a business
organization according to the requirements ofcommercial law in a
particular country.
Business Areas
A unit in an enterprise that groups product andmarket
combinations as homogeneously aspossible for the purpose of
developing unifiedbusiness policy.
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Business Areas
Are internal divisions of an enterprisethat are used to define
areas ofresponsibility or to meet the external
reporting requirements of anenterprise segment; based on
eitherthe product line or geographic
divisions across company codes Segment is a division of an
enterprise for which management
monitors performance (revenue,
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Client
GeneralMotors
GM Corp.Chart of Accts
GMC CadillacChevrolet
CorporateFiscal Year Var.
GMCorporateCredit CA
Cars Cars
Trucks Trucks Trucks
Business Areas
Consolidation of Company Codes
Optional Organizational Structures
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GBI US GBIGermany
GBI Australia
Bicycles x x X
Accessories x x x
GBI US GBICanada
GBIMexico
GBIGermany
GBI UK
GBI
NorthAmerica
x x x
GBIEurope
x x
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Client 100
Chart ofAccounts
CompanyCode
Fiscal Year
Variant
Credit Control
Area
Pen Inc.
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Unit 3 Exercises
21. Create Company Code
22. Create Chart of Accounts
23. Assign Company Code to Chart ofAccounts
24. Assign Company Code to Fiscal YearVariant
25. Create Credit Control Area
26. Assign Company Code to Credit ControlArea
27. Assign Permitted Credit Control Area toCompany Code
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Group Activity: 2 per group
Draw an ERD that shows therelationships, mapping
cardinalities,and participation constraints of the
organizational structures used infinancial accounting.
Place your answer in a whole sheetof yellow paper.
Example: A clientmust have 1
Client
Company
1..1
1..*
