Translating a Chart of FI G/L Accounts

In addition to the account number of a G/L account master record, the chart of accounts also contains the account name. You may enter and change this name in the chart of accounts in one language only. This is the maintenance language of the chart of accounts. In the chart of accounts index, you must specify the maintenance language to be used for each chart of accounts. You generally use the language of the corporate group.

You use one chart of accounts for company codes in England and in Germany. You create the chart of accounts in England and choose English as the maintenance language. If you maintain this chart of accounts in Germany, you must maintain it in English.

The account name is displayed both when you post to a G/L account and when you create, display, or change the G/L account master record. The system uses the name from the chart of accounts. If you require the account name in languages other than the maintenance language, you can translate it. When the account is posted to or the master record displayed, the system attempts to display the name in the user's logon language. If no translation is available, it is displayed in the maintenance language.

You must specify the languages into which you want to translate the account name in the chart of accounts index. You can then only translate the chart of accounts into the languages listed in the index.

In our example, you maintain the chart of accounts in English. Since you also use the chart of accounts in Germany, you translate the account name into German. When a German employee posts to one of the accounts, the account name is displayed in German. English is the maintenance language and German is specified as an additional language in the chart of accounts index.

If you want to translate an account name, proceed as follows:

Choose Master records

® Chart of accounts® Maintain acct name.

The system displays the initial screen for specifying the G/L account master record.

Enter the G/L account number and the master record chart of accounts.

The system displays the screen for translating account names and the language keys for the languages into which you can translate them.

Enter translations of the short and long text into the language you require.

If you do not translate the long text, the system transfers the short text into the field for the long text.

Save your entry with Account name

® Save.