SAP Note 19532 - Master data validation account for global ledger

Symptom:

During master data validation account, error messages are generated because no valid accounts are found.

Cause and prerequisites

During master data validation, the account is validated via a standard SAP exit, which checks by account/company code whether the account is valid.
However, with global ledgers you have global companies instead of company codes. Therefore, the master data company code of the global company is used during master data validation. In this case two problems can occur:

• no master data company code is assigned to the global company

• if alternative accounts are written to the ledger, the accounts do not exist for the company code.

Solution

• In the first case, the company code must be assigned to the global company.

• The second case is probably of the following constellation:

• the company code has an alternative chart of accounts

• the alternative accounts are transferred to the ledger

• no company code exists containing these accounts

In this case, a separate user exit for account validation can be created which works similar to the account exit but performs the following functions:

• reading the global company

• reading the assigned company code

• reading the alternative chart of accounts of the company code

• validating the account with chart of accounts