3515248 - FAQ about scope item 3AF and Group Chart of account

The group accounts is needed for external consolidation and reporting for your group. The group accounts contains the G/L accounts that are used by the entire corporate group. This allows you to provide reports at the entire corporate group level. Scope item 3AF was used to create Group chart of account YGR1 and assign it to operative chart of account YCOA. Once you make this assignment, whenever you create a new G/L account, you also need to assign the group account for it.

This scope item 3AF doesn't relate to group reporting. It's used if you don't use group reporting but use external consolidation tool like BPC. Group chart of accounts is not needed by S4HANA group reporting(consolidation) anymore. If you want to use scope item 1SG for consolidation, group chart of accounts is not needed.

For S/4HAN Cloud system, Scope item 3AF is deprecated from 2408 version. The functionality is not deprecated, and with the SSCUI, you can prepare the group chart of account by yourselves.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2408

If you want to maintain Field "Group Account Number" in the G/L Account Master Data but the field is not displayed.  

3483286 - Group Account field is missing in G/L Account Master Data of YCOA 

1. Firstly please create your own group chart of account begin with ‘Z’ by using configuration Edit Chart of Accounts List(102422).
2. Assign the group chart of account ‘Z***’ to operative chart of account such as YCOA.

For S/4HAN Cloud 2408 version, You cannot assign Group chart of account to operative chart of account by yourself. The workaround would be expert configuration based on help Implementation Details. Please contact your CSP using the Worldwide Customer Requests Repository (WCR) to assign your own group chart of accounts to the operating chart of accounts.

In future release, you can assign or unassign Group chart of account to operative chart of account by using the same configuration Edit Chart of Accounts List (102422).

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