Understanding Account Information Changes

If you make changes to account information that is attached to a particular business unit, you should globally change the information for the same accounts that are attached to other business units. You can change account information throughout all business units or companies.

You can run the Change Account Information program (R09813) in proof or final mode. When you select proof mode, the system prints a report and does not update the information. In final mode, the system updates the information in the F0901 table and, optionally, prints a report that contains the changes that it made.

When you run this program in final mode, the system updates selected fields for all similar accounts. Set the Account Information processing option to update these fields:

• Account Description

• Alternate Description

• Posting Edit Code

• Level of Detail

• Billable

• Budget Pattern Code

• Unit of Measure

• Alternate Object.Subsidiary

• Account Category Codes 1–23

• Model Account

Important: The system updates all of the fields that you select in the processing option. To exclude fields such as Category Codes 21–23 that might represent your statutory chart of accounts, verify that the fields are not selected in the processing options. You should restrict access to these processing options so that your statutory chart of accounts is not inadvertently changed.

The system does not update the Object.Subsidiary field. To update this field, you can change object accounts or subsidiaries, or you can run the Update BU. Obj. Sub to Jrnl Ent. program.