This chapter contains these topics:
To restructure your chart of accounts
To create new business units and attach existing account information to them
To update free form account numbers to act as cross-references from old to new account numbers
To change business unit, object, and subsidiary numbers
To update Account Ledger and Account Balances tables to reflect new account identifiers
If your company has recently expanded or merged with another company, it might be necessary for you to change the company account structures (chart of accounts).
Account structure revisions consist of:
Changing account structures
Working with account information
Updating batch header amounts
Reposting the account ledger
Consolidating monetary account balances
Updating the Ledger Type Master table
You can change your chart of accounts without manually creating journal entries to transfer your account transactions and balances to new accounts. The system assigns a unique account ID to each new account. The account ID is used to maintain an audit trail of account ledger transactions and balances.
You can change the business unit.object.subsidiary, but you cannot change the account ID.
Three general ledger tables are affected by a change to account numbers. The account ID is the key to all three tables. The tables are:
Account Master (F0901)
Account Balances (F0902)
Account Ledger (F0911)
All three tables contain the following fields:
Account ID
Business Unit
Object
Subsidiary
The Business Unit Master table (F0006) might also be affected.