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Chapter 14 ■ Defining FI Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
The customer account group screen is divided into two sections:
General Data: Contains the account group name field, where you name your
customer account group and the area where you specify if the account group is
for a one-time customer.
Field Status: Contains general, company code, and sales data. You can specify
the field input status for each of these items (whether you want a field to be
suppressed, required, or optional) during document entry.
■■Tip
If you are creating a one-time customer account group, remember to select the One-Time Account
checkbox in the General Data section of the Account Group Entries screen.
Update the following fields:
Account Group: Enter four characters for the account group key. This key will
serve as your account group identifier.
Name: Enter a short description that best describes your account group. For
example, Domestic Customer, Foreign Customer, One-Time Customer, and so on.
Click the Enter
your account group.
button on the top-left side of the screen to confirm your entries and then save
■■Note
there is no specific standard for the name you use as your account group. We advise you to use an
account name based on how your company classifies its customer-to-business partner functions. The Domestic
Customer Account group that we used in this exercise is for illustration purposes only and is not a standard.
Before continuing with this exercise, create two more customer account groups called Foreign
Customer and One-Time Customer.
Next, you learn how to maintain the field status group for your customer account group. The
specification you make here determines the field input status for General Data, Company Code Data, and
Sales Data.
Maintain the Field Status Group for the General Data of the
Customer Account Group
First you will learn how to maintain the field status group for general data. From the Field Status section
of the screen in Figure 14-1, double-click General Data from the list. The Maintain Field Status Group:
Overview screen is displayed; it contains a list of items for general data (e.g. Address, Communication, and
so on) that you can select from. To go to the screen where you will specify how the Address fields appear
during document entry, select Address from the Select Group list and click the Details button on the
top-left side of the screen.
The Maintain Field Status Group: Address screen is displayed (Figure 14-2). This is where you maintain
the Field Status for Address. The specifications you input here determine whether a given field is suppressed,
required, or optional. Base your settings on your client’s requirements. In this exercise, we set the address
fields to optional, because we consider the address field less important than items like reconciliation
account and sort key.
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