AM09.1 - Accounting Unit Group
**Form purpose
Use Accounting Unit Group (AM09.1) to define accounting unit groups, which
group and identify the accounting units to use when you create journal entries
for adding, adjusting, transferring, or disposing of assets. You do not have
to create an accounting unit group for a company, but you may want to do so in
most circumstances to be able to apply dynamic changes to accounting units.
**Process at a Glance for Asset Management required setup tasks
1. Define at least one depreciation book.
2. Define a depreciation calendar for the current year (AM01.1).
3. Define an asset type (AM06.1)
4. Define an account group (AM05.1)
5. (This step) Define an accounting unit group (AM09.1)
**Required fields
The only required fields are Company, Accounting Unit Group and Description
**Decision/Impact
To decide which fields you should assign an accounting unit to, and which
fields you should leave blank, consider whether you are likely to always want
to post the corresponding account to the same accounting unit, or whether you
routinely post the corresponding account to a variety of accounting units. For
example, you may want to define an accounting unit for the clearing account,
since it is an account that ends up zeroed out and does not affect the balance
sheet. But you may want to post the depreciation expense to variable
accounting units, in which case you would leave the Depreciation Expense field
blank. When you add an asset, you can specify a default accounting unit that
will be used for all the fields not defined in the accounting unit group.
**More help
- When you add an asset, you assign to the asset a type, an account group,
and an accounting unit for each account defined for the type and account
group. You can assign the accounting units using an accounting unit group, a
default accounting unit, or a combination of both. If you assign an accounting
unit group to that asset, the accounting units that you define for the
accounting unit group map to the corresponding accounts defined for the type
or account group. Accounts for which no accounting unit is defined in the
accounting unit group will be posted to the default accounting unit. If no
accounting unit group is defined, all accounts are posted to the default
accounting unit.
- You can define an unlimited number of accounting unit groups for a company.
- To generate a listing of your accounting unit groups, run Company Setup
Listings (AM205).
Updated Files
AMAUGROUP - Primary file. Used to store Account Unit Group records. They
store accounting units for AST, ACM, EXP, CLR, PRO, COS, GAN,
LOS, DGN, DLS accounts.
AMCONTROL - Updated when adding or changing account groups. A record is
added to the AMCONTROL file for each company used in the AM
system.
CKPOINT - Accessed by common library; not used by this program.
Referenced Files
AMASSET - Used to retrieve an asset and validate that an asset exists.
GLADDRESS - Accessed by common library; not used by this program.
GLCHART - Accessed by common library; not used by this program.
GLSYSTEM - Accessed by common library; not used by this program.
INVOKED Programs
IFAU
IFSG
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