S/4HANA can remove free defined currency type in company code and ledger combination ?

[emma_emma_emma]

Hi Gurus,

I have a long histrory of experiment, and my main question is can I remove free defined currency type?

Bear with me of this background....( the perk is you could know what I know now if you didn't know earlier ) 😛

ACC_AA132

Incorrect currency defined for deprec. area 01 in chart of deprec. H001

Message no. ACC_AA132

The combination of the ledger, GAAP and currency are:

see pic: OLD config

Thus I looked into Notes 2180591 - Currencies in FI-GL and FI-AA are inconsistent.

In FINSC_LEDGER, there has already been a Z1 free defined currency type in free defined currency type 1, assigned to company code 1000 and leading and non-leading ledger.

So I made the change to add two more areas for currency type Z1.

see pic: NEW config

But when I tried to assign the new depreciation to company code, it shows the error:

AC671, currency type Z1 is not defined in financial accounting.

Means I need to add Z1 in FINSC_LEDGER company code setting in 3rd FI currency. But this is a problem because free defined currency should not be assigned here, BSEG can't take free defined currency in ACDOCA, accourding to notes 2543240 - FINSC_LEDGER: FINS_ACDOC_CUST242 error message. ( That's where I learned the lessons. And NOW really understand the design of integrating AA and GL)

This is where I stuck. I don't know why they created the Z1 free defined currency. Question is, could I remove it from the assignment of company code 1000 & ledger combination 0L and N1? This company code is not productive and no postings in PRD. I tried to remove it in DEV for 0L and N1, and there was this message:

Any other risks that I remove it?

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You want to delete a currency type from a

company code and ledger combination.
Postings exist in this company code.
If you save this change, the existing journal
entries will no longer be valid.

Procedure
If you are already using this company code in
your production system, you need to cancel this
change.

Do you really want to delete currency type Z1
from company code 1000, ledger N1 ?

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Thank you!

Emma

[Gustavo_Vazquez · Accepted solution]

Hi Emma,

As you are in a test enviroment you could reset Company Code Data (tx OBR1).

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/ERPFI/Reset+company+code+data

If you don't delete and want to use data I would suggest to use another free currency. Don't mix values or GL balance will be a mess.

They put a free defined currency because they could be testing just like you and having just 3 currencies sometimes gets short: Local, Group, Hard, Region, Consolidation. Some scenarios makes you need an additional currency; Local: USD, Group USD, Hard: EUR but they needed to report in ARS for consolidation / legal reports so for i've run out of currencies with old schema.

As said in note 2593455 GL balance report for free defined currencies is only available in Fiori. Check also note 2344012.

Kind Regards

[10010 · Accepted solution]

Hi Gustavo,

I am facing a similar kind of issue as Qun.

Message -

Incorrect currency defined for deprec. area 01 in chart of deprec. 2000

Message no. ACC_AA132

In my case -

The Company Code Currency - INR

Background of the issue -

I had all the configs in place for FA and it was working fine till few hours back. In order to do some experiment to configure the Indian tax depreciation, I changed the Accounting Principle in the below config.

I had assigned the Accounting Principle IFRS and then reverted back to GAAP

Original Config - GAAP

New Config - IFRS

Current Config - GAAP

After I changed it to IFRS, the settings in the FAA_CMP (Asset Transfer Data) changed. System asked to close the year again. While I attempted to change the year, system then threw the above error.

I believe, system picks the currency from the FINSC_LEDGER config for the currency for Depreciation areas.

It specifically is indicating towards depreciation area 01.

Can you help on this?

Regards

Partha

[emma_emma_emma]

Hi Gustavo,

Thank you for the quick response! Your comments really helped me understand the function and design of HANA currencies.

I've solved the problem. The root cause is someone somehow had changed the company code currency to CNY thus it made the previous settings in OAYH (Valution->Currencies-> company code selections) to be in a CNY not local HKD. That's why I got the message ACC_AA132 in the first place.

So I got a TR someone created some time ago with the correct OAYH (currency<->company code relations), new chart of depreciation, in configration system and transported it. And ACC_AA132 didn't show up and I can see the values of assets in AW01N.

The mystery is:

How to change OAYH's depreciation areas currency, c's I found this setting is only ristricted to company code and depreciation areas, and in the "leading" depreciation areas, the local currency is in grey. ( See OAYH pic)

Well then, the previous steps I took by the time of ACC_AA132 were misguided by the free defined currency type Z1. It turns out that even there is one free defined currency type, if we limited the depreciation ares to only 4, (see pic NOW config) it looks like I can post transactions and see asset values in AA. AND, if this free defined currency type is removed from the ledger/company code combination, ( not totally deleted ! ) , I can still post asset transactions and check AW01N.

Looks like more mysteries...

Thank you!

Emma