Implementing Cloud Financials: From Empty Pod to Go-Live · Module 5 · Legal Entities and Business Units
Intercompany foundations
Lesson 54 of 153 · 7 min
Entity A pays a cost on behalf of entity B, and both sets of books must balance. Without intercompany balancing, one entity's journal is unbalanced — which is the whole problem in one sentence. The concept half covers automatic intercompany balancing: what the system generates, and why the intercompany segment you decided on in the chart of accounts module matters here. Plus intercompany transaction types and organisations, as concepts rather than full configuration. Full intercompany reconciliation and invoicing is a larger topic, and this is foundations. Elimination and consolidation are separate subjects; the lesson points at where to go deeper rather than pretending to cover them. Then the walkthrough: set the intercompany system options, define a balancing rule, and post a cross-entity journal so you can see the generated balancing lines. Watching them appear is what makes the earlier segment decision feel justified — retroactively, which is exactly when it…
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