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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Control accounts</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Control accounts</Level1>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>Business practices in Japan, Spain, Italy, and other countries require that different types of receivables and payables are posted to different control accounts. Multiple control accounts for financial business partner groups allow you to post real trade transactions and other purchase/sales related transactions to different control accounts.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>You can use the <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000432" role="glossary">sales types</Link> and the <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000433" role="glossary">purchase types</Link> to post the financial transactions generated during processing of the invoices to various control accounts. For each business partner group, you can define the control account to be used for each sales type and purchase type.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>For each business partner group, you must define one default sales type or purchase type and its related control account. In other words, you must define at least one sales type and one purchase type because this is required to link at least one control account to a business partner group.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>You can create as many sales types and purchase types as you need for your financial administration. You can define sales type exceptions and purchase type exceptions to post transactions with specific origins and with specific details, for example, specific items or projects, to specific control accounts.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>It is recommended that you use the default sales type and purchase type and the control accounts for regular sales/purchase activities. All the additional control accounts of the business partner groups must use the same dimensions as the control account linked to the default sale type or purchase type. You can use the additional sales types and purchase types with their control accounts to post invoices that are not related to real trade transactions to separate control accounts. For example, non-trade sales invoices can concern the sale of fixed assets, intercompany transfers, and so on.</Paragraph>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>The control account search path</SectionTitle>
		<ProcedureList><ListIntro>To determine the control account for an invoice transaction, SSA ERP searches for the most specific sales type or purchase type in this order:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>The manually entered sales type or purchase type of the sales invoice header or purchase invoice header.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>The sales type or purchase type of the sales order line or purchase order line. This can be an 'exception' defined for specific order details such as the item code, the item group, or the project.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>The default sales type or purchase type defined for the business partner group of the invoice-to or invoice -from business partner.</ListItem>
		</ProcedureList>
		<Paragraph>For manual purchase orders and purchase schedules, if no purchase type is found in the purchase type exceptions, SSA ERP retrieves the default purchase type from the business partner group of the invoice-to business partner.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>For internal invoices with bilateral invoicing or triangular invoicing, SSA ERP uses the default sales type or purchase type of the business partner group linked to the internal invoice-to or invoice-from business partner. For example, internal invoices can be generated for transfers, manual transfers, WIP transfers, and internal freight orders.</Paragraph>
		<Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>For purchase orders for which intercompany settlement transactions are generated, no sales type and purchase type are used and the corresponding field is disabled.</Paragraph>
		</Note>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Transactions</SectionTitle>
		<List><ListIntro>Multiple control accounts are used for the following types of purchase and sales transactions:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>Purchase orders.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Freight orders.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Manual purchase invoices.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Invoices generated for procurement card statements.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Sales orders.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Warehouse orders for transfers that result in inter-company transactions.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Service orders.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Service contracts.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Calls.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Project orders.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Debit notes.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Credit notes.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Interest invoices.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Manual sales invoices.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Commission and Rebate invoices.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Purchase schedules.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Sales schedules.</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Paragraph>Payments and receipts processed in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/cmg" role="module">Cash Management</GUIRef> module are posted to the control accounts determined by the sales types and purchase types of the related orders or invoices.</Paragraph>
		<List><ListIntro>This applies to the following types of cash management transactions:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>Manual and automatic payments/receipts for normal and anticipated payments/receipts.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Assignment of invoices to advances/unallocated.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Reconciliation of bank documents and electronic bank statements.</ListItem>
		</List>
	</GeneralSection>
	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000126" role="manual">Ledger account and dimension structure</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000401" role="manual">To set up control accounts</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000402" role="manual">To post sales invoices to control accounts</Link>
		</RelTopic>
	</RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>
