Customizing Currency Settings for General Ledger Accounts

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to customize currency settings for general ledger accounts

Accounts in Local Currency

When you define a company code, you also need to define the company code currency. You can select one of the following currencies as account currency:

  • Local currency

  • Foreign currency

As a standard, when you create a G/L account, SAP S/4HANA takes the local currency as the default account currency. If you select the local currency, you can post to this G/L account in any currency. Other currencies are converted into the local currency for each line item. Posting of items in different currencies is possible irrespective of whether line item display is activated or not.

Note

To avoid differences in exchange rates during postings, you can set an indicator for accounts that can be posted to in different currencies, but where clearing may only be completed in the local currency.

The graph shows an account set to ‘local currency’. The data input can be done in three different currencies. Then, the transferred amount is local currency.

Accounts in Foreign Currency

If you select a foreign currency as the account currency, then you can only post amounts in the selected foreign currency to this account. Transaction figures and line items are managed in the account currency and the local currency. When you set accounts with a foreign currency, the account can only be posted to in the currency specified.

The graph shows an account set to foreign currency. Postings are only authorized in this currency and the amounts are then transferred in local currency.

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