SAP Note 18379 - Balance carried forward: carry forward account in company...

Symptom:

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When running the balance carry forward program (SAPFGVTR) in the Special
Purpose Ledger, the following error message is issued for global ledgers:
Balance carry forward account not created in global company.

Cause and prerequisites

This can have several reasons:

• - The retained earnings account for global data has not been correctly maintained

• - The global company in question has not been allocated to a master record company code

Solution

• First check the retained earnings account:

Special Purpose Ledger Configuration menu: Periodic processing -> Balance carr.forward -> Retnd earning acct -> Global.
Here you must define a valid account for the chart of accounts (as assigned to ledger/global company level) and the income statement type (defined in the account master), into which the balance from the income statement accounts is carried forward.

• If this setting has been made correctly, then check the how your global company is defined. If no master record company code has been assigned to it, you have two options:

• You can enter a company code with the same chart of accounts such as at the ledger/global company level.

• You can write your own master record exit for this global company table, which validates the accounts with the chart of accounts (Program SAPLGUMD), and enter this new exit in your table, starting from the Special Purpose Ledger Configuration menu: Environment -> Master data -> Integr.master data.
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• Additional key words
  

  Balance carry forward, SAPFGVTR, RGVTRnnn, GVTR, global ledger