Understanding AAIs for Sales Order Management

AAIs are the links between the day-to-day functions, chart of accounts, and financial reports. The system uses AAIs to determine how to distribute amounts that are associated with general ledger entries that the system generates. For example, in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management, AAIs specify how to record the journal entries that are associated with transactions such as selling a stock item to a customer.

For JD Edwards EnterpriseOne distribution systems, you must create AAIs for each unique combination of company, transaction, document type, and general ledger class that you anticipate using. You associate each AAI with a specific general ledger account that consists of a business unit, an object, and optionally, a subsidiary.

If you collect taxes on customer invoices, you must distribute the tax amounts to the correct general ledger accounts. When you set up AAIs for a specific type of tax, such as value added tax (VAT) or use tax, you designate which accounts you want to debit and credit for an invoice tax amount.

The system stores AAIs in the Distribution/Manufacturing - AAI Values table (F4095).