Understanding Account Groups

You use the Account Groups program (P09J53) to set up account groups for account selection. The account groups can include and exclude account ranges for processes within the Joint Venture Management system.

You can use account groups in the following processes:

• Overhead calculation:

  When the overhead is a percentage of the costs, you must specify the costs accounts from which to get the percentage of the overhead. You can set up account groups to include applicable cost accounts or to exclude accounts that are not applicable for overhead. Account groups can only be used when you calculate overhead costs using these overhead methods: Fixed Percent and Fixed Percent with Sliding Scale.

• Cash call definition (Release 9.2 Update)

  When a cash call is set up for a specific expense or a set of expenses within a joint venture, you use an account group to define the accounts associated with the type of expense that can be drawn from the cash call.

The system stores the account groups in the Account Groups table (F09J53).