For any business to use FI-CA we need to configure the following apart from th

I
Organisational Units
II
Basic Functions
III Business Transactions
IV Integration
V Information systems.

Let us start with Organisational Units.

This involves configuring three activities:
1)Set up Company Codes for FI-CA
2)Define Company Code Groups
3)Assign Company codes to Company Code groups.

I.ORGANISATIONAL UNITS

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Set up Company Codes for Contract Accounts Receivable and P

We are configuring two company codes ORITEL and SUNTEL. ORITEL is a GSM/CDMA mobile tele
Company on 3G and 4G network and SUNTEL is a DTH services company.
Both the companies a
Orion Group.

Path: Financial accounting (New)Contract Accounts Receivable and PayableOrganisational Un

Set up company codes for contract Receivable and Payable
Screen 1 is the path. When executed you are presented with screen 2. Click on New Entries
Presented with the screen and you complete as shown in screen 3

Complete the configuration as per screen 1 and 2 and then Save the screens

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Define Company Code

Groups
A Company
Code Group will include all the FI-CA company codes that will be used for posting to the con

After grouping select a company code from among the participants of a group, as the paying company c
That will handle the automatic payments.

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Define Company Code Groups

When you execute Screen 1 you will end up on screen 2. Click on New Entries and complete the s
and SAVE

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Assign Company Codes to Company C

This is the final step to set up the organisation units.

Path: Financial Accounting (New)Contract Accounts Receivable and PayablesOrganisational Un

Assign Company codes to Company code groups.

When the above path is expecuted you will end up with screen 1. Click new entries and complet
And then SAVE. That will complete the setting up organisational units

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BASIC FUNCTIONS

The following steps are involved in setting Basic Functions:

1)Activating Additional checks for Master Data Changes to a Busine

2)Defining or Assigning number Ranges to contract accoun

3)Maintaining Contract account or business partner relation
4)Defining Account determination characteristics
5)Defining document types to be used in FI-CA

6)Defining number ranges for individual and mass processing of doc

7)Maintaining main and sub transactions for non-industry FI-CA receivables/pa

8)Defining setting relating to Open item management

9)Foreign trade declarations

Activate Additional Checks for Master Data Changes to a Bu

A contract partner in FI-CA is a business partner (among utility consumers or telecom

subscribers; for example,
this might be a person , an organisation, or a group) to whom you provide the services and bill
through contract
represented by a contract account. Because we are talking about a very large volume of
Path: Financial
contracts,
you canAccounting
improve (new)Contract Accounts Receivable & PayableBasic FunctionsContrac
Activate additional
Master Data
to changes
to Business Partner
System performance
in masschecks
runs byfor
configuring
additional
checks.

On execution as per screen 1 you will end up with screen. Check the boxes as needed.
Checking Last Bank Details will result in the SAP system saving the last bank details of a business pa
Default is first Bank details.

Managed as an Open item, a contract account is a structure for posting the contract items with the sam
Or stipulations. Represented by a master record, it has general and specific data areas. General data
and accessed by All the business partners assigned to a particular contract account, while business part
is stored seperately.

And the first step in this direction is to Define Number Ranges for Contract accounts which in turn is n
to contract account categories.

Path: FA(new)Contract Accounts Receivable and PayableBasic FunctionsContract AccountsNu

and Contract Account categoriesDefine Number Ranges
Execute and complete the steps as per screen 1, 2 and 3.

These steps are similar to the Numberin

Configure Contract Account Categories and Assign Number

A contract account category contains the attributes that will apply to a contract account such as whe
Business partners can be assigned to a contract account, whether a contract account can have one o
Whether a contract account can be processed online.

Path: FA(New)Contract AR & APBasic FunctionsContract Accounts-Number Ranges and CA c

Configure CA categories and Assign Number Ranges

On execution you will sail through the screens from 1-3. Save after screen 3. Please also read

Define Contract Account/Business Partner re

The relationship defines the business partners role such as account holder or paying party in the con
You will use this relationship when assigning a business partner to a contract accout in order to speci
who should pay for the account; The Account holder or the payment partner.
However, you can as
holder relationship to only one business partner per Contract account.

Path: FA(New)Contract Receivables & PayablesDefine Contract AccountsContract Account Re

Define CA/Business partner Relationship

On execution of screen you click New Entries button on screen 2 and enter as shown in screen 3
Please note to check AH if the relationship is Account holder.

Define Account Determination Characte

The company, Orion, requires three separate account determinations to post the different GL ac
Afffiliates and third parties (domestic and Overseas)
Path: FI(New)CA AR/APBasic FunctionsCADefine Account determination Is for Contract

Following execution click New Entries as perr Screen 2 and complete as per screen 3 and save.

Maintain Document number Ranges

POSTINGS AND DOCUMENTS

Our Company wants separate number ranges for mass or individually processed documents. The Com
Decided that all document types should allow cross company code postings to facilitate billing or dunni
Who is no longer associated with a participating company, but still owes payments. Negative posting
For transactions like payment or interest so that the account balance remains unchanged after a transa
Negative postings only in the year it occurs in the case of returns, payment reversals and clearing rest.

Path: FI(NEW)CA AP/ARBasic FunctionsPostings and DocumentsBasic SettingsMaintain Doc

Numberr Ranges (FPN)

Complete the Creation of number range as per screen 2.

For Individua processing use a number as the first character. You can have the number assignmen
Internal or external.
For Mass processing use a letter as the first character and make sure that the number assignemtnt is

Maintain Documents Type and Assign number range

Path: FI(New)CA AP/ARBasic FunctionsPostings and documentsDocument Maintain Docum

AssignmentsDocument TypesMaintain Document type and Assign a number Range

Define Line Layout Variants for Open Item

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(New) Contract Accounts Receiveable and Payable->Basic Function
Processing
Open Item ManagementDefine Line Layout Variants for Open Item Processing (TC FQKPO)

Check whether SAP supplied line variant SAP will meet your purposes. It contains the field Contract
Contract Accounts (VKONT).Document number (OPBEL), net due date (FAEDN) and Text (TXTUI). The
appear as as in 1, when you click, the second screen will appear. Select SAP and clike on Variant fi

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When you feel like having more fileds, go back to screen 2 and select line Layout SAP and click on
copy icon as per screen 1 below and you will be taken to screen 2, where you will replace SAP
with our new layout name OR3 and then when you SAVE screen 3 appears click on copy all and
popup 4 will appear. Click enter.

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Then go back to screen 01 and select OR3 and the click on Variant field and you will
be presented with screen 02. It will have only 5 field names as already mentioned we
have added field 6 and 7 as we felt we need these fileds.
Similary you can add as
many field as you feel from the drop down list in field name column. Then you save
and go back. You have just configured the Line Layout variants for open item
processing.

CHEQUE MANAGEMENT

You need to define a document type for check cashing and a bank clearing account for managing cas
Checks. You may also define void reasons for checks.

Define Document Type for check cashing

Path: Financial Accounting (New)Contract Account Receiveable and PayableBasic FunctionsChec

Check ManagementDefine document type for Check Management (TC FQ1036)
When you click on the screen 1 the next screen 2 appears . For orion we have specified 01 as
our (General Document) type. And then save the entry.

Define Bank Clearing Account for Encashment of out

Path: Financial Accounting (New)Contract Accounts Receiveable and PayableBasic FunctionsChec

Define Bank Clearing Account for Encashment of Outgoing Checks (TCFQ1037)

The First screen 1 will ask for Chart of Account. And the main screen 2 needs Bank Cheque Clearin

When you enter the Account number save the data and now you are ready to go.