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This document provides instructions on creating an alternative chart of accounts (COA) in SAP S/4HANA Cloud when a pre-delivered option is not available. It outlines prerequisites, the context for needing an alternative COA, and detailed procedural steps for configuration. The document also emphasizes that it is an incomplete version of official SAP documentation and should not be used for productive purposes.

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SAP Help_Alternative COA

This document provides instructions on creating an alternative chart of accounts (COA) in SAP S/4HANA Cloud when a pre-delivered option is not available. It outlines prerequisites, the context for needing an alternative COA, and detailed procedural steps for configuration. The document also emphasizes that it is an incomplete version of official SAP documentation and should not be used for productive purposes.

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How to Create an Alternative Chart of Accounts


If a pre-delivered alternative chart of accounts (COA) is not available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud to fulfill your reporting requirements,
create your own alternative COA and add G/L accounts to it in your quality system.

Prerequisites
You need the proper authorization to access the relevant configuration activities in your configuration environment. Information
about the relevant business role templates and business catalogs is available here: Chart of Accounts Maintenance: Authorization
Concept.

Context
An alternative (local) chart of accounts is specific to a country/region and contains the G/L accounts that meet specific legal
reporting requirements in that country/region. The pre-delivered content for SAP S/4HANA Cloud includes standard alternative
COAs for a number of countries/regions. If you need an alternative COA for a company code that is located in a country/region
where SAP has not delivered an alternative COA,,you can create it in your configuration environment. After you assign the new
alternative COA to a company code, create the needed G/L accounts for it, and assign them as alternative accounts to your
operating COA, your changes are transported to your production system.

Procedure
1. In your configuration environment, search for the Edit Chart of Accounts List configuration activity.

2. Open the Edit Chart of Accounts List configuration activity and create a new entry in your own namespace:

a. Enter the ID and description for your new alternative COA.

b. Enter the length of the account number for G/L accounts to be added to this alternative COA. The maximum value is
10.

a. Save your entries.

The system prompts you to create an initial alternative account by entering an account number.

You will copy this account to create the other alternative accounts that you need for your new alternative COA.

3. Open the Assign Company Code to Chart of Accounts configuration activity.

a. Assign your new alternative COA to the relevant combination of company code and pre-delivered operating COA.

b. Save your entries.

4. In the Manage G/L Account Master Data configuration activity, copy the initial alternative account that you created in Step
2 to create the other alternative accounts that you need. For more information, see Manage G/L Account Master Data.

5. Assign the alternative account numbers from your alternative COA to the corresponding G/L accounts in your operating
COA. For more information on how to use alternative accounts in journal entries, see the relevant section in the
documentation for the Edit Options for Journal Entries app.

6. Assign the new alternative accounts to the relevant finanical statement versions (FSVs) using the Manage Global
Hierarchies configuration activity.

Results
Your changes are saved in the open transoport and can be imported to your test system and from there on to your production
system. Once the new alternative accounts, reach your production system, you can manually create journal entries using the
alternative account number. For more information, see the section about posting to alternative accounts here: Chart of Accounts:
Different Types.

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