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  Introduction What is an ERP system? And why should businesses use it? Today, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) also face some of the problems that large enterprises do. One of them being planning and managing their resources. SMEs face similar complexities but have limited resources to deal with them. Small businesses (like their bigger counterparts) have to: Do accounts to track their sales/purchases. Do their taxes. Pay their employees. Manage deliveries within promised timelines. Deliver quality goods and services. Communicate with customers, answer their queries. Large enterprises invest millions of dollars in highly sophisticated systems like SAP. SAP and similar systems are able to handle requirements from these large enterprises to bring their  multi-country ,  multi-company ,  multi-currency , global businesses into a single platform. This has helped them achieve consolidation of data/records in the fundamental processes such as accounting, taxation, payroll, reporting
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SAP FI Retained Earnings



Retained Earnings Account is used to carry forward the balance from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year. You can assign a Retained Earning Account to each P&L account in the chart of accounts (COA). To automatically carry forward the balance to the next fiscal year, you can define P&L statements as per COA and assign them to the retained earning accounts.

How to define Retained Earnings Account?

There are two ways to define a Retained Earnings Account. You can either use the T-code OB53 or by T-code SPRO. Go to SAP Reference IMG → Financial Accounting → General Ledger Accounting → G/L Accounts → Preparations → Define Retained Earnings Account → Execute.

Define Retained Account

Enter the Chart of Accounts to define the Retained Earning Account for COA and press Enter.

Chart Retained Account

Provide the P&L Account statement account type and account → Press Enter and save the configuration.

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