1. Account determination is the integration between SD and FICO modules that automatically posts prices, discounts, freight, and taxes to the appropriate GL accounts through account keys. 2. Account keys are defined in FICO and then assigned to condition types in pricing procedures in SD. Customer and material groups are used to group customers and materials for pricing purposes. 3. Account determination must be configured correctly for the system to generate accounting documents when invoices are saved, including maintaining account assignment groups in customer and material masters.

1. Answer
# 1
Determine the pricing procedure and tax
condition types
such as PR00-Pricing,MWST--Output tax.
Determine partner functions such as
SP,SH,PY,BP
Define tax determination rules i.e Exampted or
Laible
Assign GL accounts in Revenue account
dtermination such as
ERL,ERS
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Ramu Naidu
Answer
# 2
ccount Determination is an important
integration between SD & FICO modules.
whenever a sale takes place, the system
automatically posts the various prices and
discounts and freights to the respective GL
accounts through the account keys.
The account key is assigned to the respective
GL account. Also in the pricing procedure we
have a column called as account key(second
last column). There we assign the account
key. For eg., in Std SAP for basic price we
have acct key ERL, for discounts ERS, for
Output tax MWS, for freight ERF, etc. These
account keys are basically defined by the
FICO consultant and then the SD consultant
assigns the respective account keys against
the respective condition type in the pricing
procedure.
The customer group is nothing but the
grouping of various customers like wholesaler,
retailer, subsidairies, etc. This is basically
useful while maintaining pricing like for X
group basic price is 10Rs, for Y group it is
15Rs. like that. Similarly material group is a
grouping of materials like Ball pens, ink pens,
gell pens, etc.
When you create the condition table and
select these fields and save it and when you

2. assign this table to your access sequence, the
system searches for the condition record
according to this key combination. For that you
have to maintain the condition record in VK11.
Now you are done with pricing. you create the
sales order. delivery and invoice. Now for the
system to generate an accounting document
when you save the invoice in VF01 you have
to maintain the account determination correctly
otherwise the system will give an error - "error
in account determination."
For doing account determination you have to
go to :
IMG-sales & distribution-basic functions-
account assignmentcosting-revenue account
determination.
In this you first have to maintain the customer
account assignment group and material
account assignment group. This group for the
customer means for which customer whether
domestic or foreign etc. For material whether
finished, semi finished, raw material, etc. You
can also maintain as per name of the division.
This account assignment group you have to
assign in customer master as well as material
master. In customer master (XD01) -sales
area data- billing you have customer acct asst
group, make an entry here. In material master
(MM01)-sales:sales org.2 you have account
asst group, make a proper entry here also.
Note: Regarding condition types KOFI &
KOFK
KOFK: KOFK is used when ever we are
posting the document where a cost is involved
that can be checked via the Requirment class
in the Sales order in the Procurment step. In
the requirements class there is "E" in account
assignment category & hence you have to use
KOFK.
KOFI: If there is no "E" in the account
assignment category then use KOFI.
Now in the above IMG path only you have
access sequence, condition type, procedure.

3. maintain everything and assign properly the
procedure to the billing document type.
Define the account keys & assign them
properly in the pricing procedure.
Now go to transaction code VKOA. You will
see 5 tables. first is customer group/material
group/acct key. When you double click on this
it will show as following:
Application, condition type, chart of accounts,
sales org., customer acct asst group, material
acct asst group, acct key, G/L acct, provision
acct. depending upon your customer type and
material type you have to maintain all the
columns and the respective G/L accounts. The
first table is for more specific assignments &
the other tables are for general assignments.
Now whenever you make a sales order,
delivery and invoice and when you save the
incoice the system will automatically post the
price, discount, tax, freight to the respective
G/L accounts. This will make an accounting
document which will show the exact value of
price, discount, tax, freight for that particular
transaction.
Apart from this when you do PGI in the
delivery the system updates various G/L
accounts related to inventory.
Also as far as profitability analysis is
concerned it is an important integration
between SD & FICO basically known as
"profitability analysis - CO-PA".
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