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A. OkungbowaSAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting Configurationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8957-0_17

17. Ledgers

Andrew Okungbowa1  
(1)
New Addington, UK
 

In most cases, global organizations usually operate various accounting standards such as group accounting standard, local accounting standards, tax accounting standards, and so on. As a result, it may be important for large organizations to set up parallel accounting. SAP recommends to use separate ledgers for each accounting principle. For example, one ledger with US GAAP assigned to it and another with local accounting principle, and so on.

These forms of accounting standards need to be represented in ...

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