Chapter 2

Financial Accounting Enterprise Structure

Featuring:

  • Chart of Accounts
  • Fiscal Year Variant
  • Company Code Configuration
  • Business Areas
  • Functional Areas
  • Advanced Validation and Substitution
  • Sales and Use Tax

The Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure is the key building block to your entire organization. Most other modules in the system build upon the FI Organization Elements that you create in the Enterprise Structure. The configuration that will occur in the rest of the book will all be built upon the base elements that you will configure in this chapter.

It is very important to carefully analyze your organization before setting up the FI Enterprise Structure. It is important to have a good picture of how your organization ...

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