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October 11, 2010 at 16:59 PM
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Gaurav Aggarwal (https://people.sap.com/gaurav.aggarwal2)replied

October 08, 2010 at 19:06 PM

There is nothing special GL account, but there is special
GL indicator.

Reconc account is used to reflect the subsidiery ledger

(Customer/ vendors etc.) into the main GL ledger,
Whereas via special GL indicator you can divert the
posting for a vendor/ customer to another reconciliation
account instead of the reconciliation account defined in
their master record.

For example to track down payment separatly in GL

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SDNer

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Murali Babu Nallamothu (https://people.sap.com/muralibabu.nallamothu2)replied

October 09, 2010 at 08:25 AM

Reconciliation Account:- This is control account for
Vendor/Customer sub ledger accounts. At the time of
sub ledger creation you have to specify this account.

Special GL account:-This is also a reconciliation

account, but we dont assign this account to any sub
ledger accounts. we assign this account to the above
reconciliation account with special GL indicator. So that
system posts the special transactions like advances,
bad debts & BOE to this account when you use special
gl indicator for posting.

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Ravichandran Santhanam (https://people.sap.com/ravichandran.iyer)replied

October 11, 2010 at 16:47 PM

Special GL account is only a B/S account and
NOT a Recon account. You can say it is like a
Suspense Account. You maintain this account
with Open Item Management enabled (like a
clearing account).

Ravi.

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Tarek AYACHI (https://people.sap.com/tarek.ayachi)replied October 11, 2010 at 16:55 PM

Dear,

Reconciliation Accounts are G/L accounts that receive postings from a subsidiary
ledgers. Meaning, transactions data are not posted directly to recon accounts.
Example of recon accounts are Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and
Fixed Assets G/L. For accounts receivable G/L the subsidiary ledger is the

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customer account. All transactions with the customers are posted directly to the
customer account and the recon account is automatically updated

With the use of special G/L indicator you can specify in the set-up what G/L
account advances transactions be posted. Standard posting key of customer
transaction with special G/L indicator are 09 (dr) and 19 (cr). The system will
always require you to indicate the special G/L indicator when you use the said
posting keys.

Regards,

Tarek

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