HCM

[Former Member]

what is Client & company code in Hcm ?

[former_member6902 · Accepted solution]

Hi Sana,

The client refers to the instance of the master data and the company code is the operating entity.  Some data settings are common for all clients in one instance.  Company codes are created for each 'company' that requires Financial documents to be published (Income Statements and Balance Sheets for example).  For more information on SAP HCM, please consider our TERP31 e-learning course.

https://training.sap.com/us/en/course/terp31-sap-erp-introduction-to-processes-in-human-capital-mana...

Best

-Regina

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you Regina .its pretty helpful.

[jazib_tariq]

HI Sana,

Client

The client is, in accordance with commercial law, an organizational and technically (from the database perspective) isolated unit within the R/3 System, with separate master records and its own separate record of tables. A client’s area of jurisdiction can correspond to a unit as small as a company, or as large as an entire enterprise.
Ex: Client is 3 digit code used to login in SAP

Company Code

The company code is the smallest organizational unit for which a complete and isolated set of financial statements can be created. Client and Company codes are uniform and unified entities with respect to all the modules of SAP. They are once defined and used identically across a particular instance of SAP system.

Ex: Company code is the 4 digit code to company profile (1000).

Regards

Jazib Tariq

[Former Member]

Hi,

  A company is an organizational unit in Accounting which represents a business organization according to the requirements of commercial law in a particular country.

Company Code represents the highest level of the enterprise structure within a client. This is adapted from FI module.

A company can comprise one or more company codes.

A client is a organizational and legal entity in SAP system.

When you create a company you should bear in mind the following points relating to group accounting:

• If your organization uses several clients, the companies which only appear as group-internal business partners, and are not operational in each system, must be maintained in each client. This is a precondition for the account assignment of a group-internal trading partner.
• Companies must be cataloged in a list of company IDs which is consistent across the group. The parent company usually provides this list of company IDs.
• It is also acceptable to designate legally dependent branches 'companies' and join them together as a legal unit by consolidation.

Regards,

V.Surendhar