SAP company和company code区别

 

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Why do we use company and company code (i.e. differnce between company and company code)?

 

 A Company is the unit to which your financial statements are created and can have one to many company codes assigned to it.   A company is equivalent to your legal business organization.   Consolidated financial statements are based on the companys financial statements. Companies are defined in configuration and assigned to company codes. Each company code must use the same COA (Chart of Accounts) and Fiscal Year. Also note that local currency for the company can be different.  

 Company Codes are the smallest unit within your organizational structure and is used for internal and external reporting purposes. Company Codes are not optional within SAP and are required to be defined.  Financial transactions are viewed at the company code level. Company Codes can be created for any business organization whether national or international. It is recommended that once a Company Code has been defined in Configuration with all the required settings then other company codes later created should be copied from the existing company code. You can then make changes as needed. This reduces repetitive input of information that does not change from company code to company code as well as eliminate the possibility of missed data input.^)[?MgHN^

A Client is the top-most organizational structure, which has its own set of master records.+DR*F3P]G
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Typically, in SAP, you will have different ‘types’ of Clients; namely:
 1. Development Client
 2. Test Client
 3. Production Client
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Client其实不是集团的意思，虽然字面上是这么翻译。其实准确地说应该是instance，每个client都是一个逻辑上独立的系统（虽然他们物理上都是在一个sap系统下），但是彼此之间没有任何关系，数据也是完全独立不能共享的。q9C@"G.K3Ul2f5~
Company就是集团的意思，所有对外的财务报告都是以company为基础发出的。]
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Company code就是每个财务独立的分公司，是最小的财务实体。

 

Company/Company Code在SAP公司讲课的时候，老师的解释是Company Code是系统必须字段，并且以此来进行设计，开发的。它是财务报表的基本单位。而Company是SAP中的统计单位，并非必须，在系统中也没有围绕它做特别的设计。当然，汇总报表的时候，可以定义虚拟总公司（Company）来分配给CompanyCode来进行初级的合并报表设计。

 

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