Significance: Account Groups controls the Master records. It controls the number range of Master record and Field status group (Supress, Required, Optional and Display) also. SAP follows a Grouping principle all throughout SAP to handle the Master Records that may be in GL, AR AP any thing.
Note: SAP allows a maximum of 10 digits for an Account Number, however for the purposes of this tutorial we will only be using 6 digits, since that is sufficient for all practical purposes. The format we will be following is as follows:
Liabilities – 100000 series
Assets – 200000 series
Income – 300000 series
Expenditure – 400000 series
T-Code: OBD4
Path: SPRO>IMG>Financial Accounting>GL Accounting>GL Accounts>Master Records>Preparations>Define Account Groups
The following steps need to be followed.
Choose “New Entries” from the Application Bar.
Fill in the required entries and choose “Save“.
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It’s a very nice effort.This is very nice for the people who are learning & starting it first time.
thank you. found it difficult in some steps myself. so i thought this would be useful to a lot of people like me.
Awesome Amigo…
But have not seen any new post for quite some time…
thanx. yes i admit, i was a quite slow in following up on this site(including approving your comment, which i did just now).
but the problem is that
1. my system got formatted and i have to install SAP again.
2. am currently busy in a little tour of south india between various places, on a work of considerable importance to me. so have not been able to login also this whole month.
probably by december you would see a lot of updations on this site, till then kindly bear with me.
For the future posting could you enable scripting support so we can see the t.codes for the screen shots.
Thank you
thanx for checking out the blog. rightly pointed out.
though i admit, seeing the T-Codes on the screenshots itself would be very useful, i must admit, i dont quite know how to go about making it possible(i.e. enabling scripting support stuff).
would be glad if you could guide me on that.
Hi Buddy,
Its a nice gesture of making us run through the process in such a nice manner.
However I would like to post some queries. Would be very helpful for the assistance.
1. What do you mean by number range of Master record?
2. What is Field status group?
Thanks in advance.
what is the error means : calculation procedure for text in company code is not maintained (TAB T005) in General document entry
hi Kaushik,
As far as I understand number range for master record means predefining the number range for particular type of master record like for instance for vendor master if you have defined the number range from 400000 to 499999 so all the vendors you create will pick the number from this particular range.hope this helps…thank you.
Field status group: Here we are defining the layout or the screen display.Like for few records or documents few fields are required few are optional and few are suppressed depening on the requirement we can deifne the field status groups.
eg: for sales we need the price and the quantity as the required fields so we make these two fields as the required fields.
hi Kaushik,
As far as my understanding goes number range of master record is predefining the number range for the master records so that once the we create the records the number gets picked up by itself from the predefined number range.
for instance we define number range of 400000-499999 for FI master vendors so whenever you create the vendor it will take the number with in the given range.
Field status group:Here you are giving the details as to how the screen should be displayed like what all fields should be reqiured /optional/supressed.
depending upon the requirement.
eg: for recording a bank related document you should make the value date and business area as a required entry.
Hope the above explanations help
Thank you