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Retained Earnings Account

Former Member
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Hi SAP GURUS,

any one please explain what is retained earnings acoount and what is the use of it.

Thanks,

Pavan

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Former Member

Hi Pavan,

Retained Earnings Account is used for carry forward the balance and you cane use more than one retained earning account(one is mandatory).

You can configure Retained Earnings through T-CODE OB53.

For More Details please refer

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/96/8b307e43ce11d189ee0000e81ddfac/content.htm

Regards,

Ranjith

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Answers (4)

Former Member

Retained earnings A/c is used to transfer all P&L A/c Balances to balance sheet a/c.

Former Member

Hi

retained earnings account means while defining gl account in chart of account segment we have to define whether its belongs to balance sheet account r profit and loss account.if u will select b/s means the balance will go to the same account where as prfit and loss a/c the balance will go to retained earnings account by making p&laccount zero balance.

Former Member
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Dear Pavan,

For profit and loss statement accounts, the balance is carried forward to a retained earnings account and the profit and loss statement account is set to zero. A key (for example, X) is assigned to the account to which the balance is carried forward. You enter this key in the field "P&L Statement Type" in the chart of accounts segment.

In Customizing, users define the retained earnings account that is assigned to expense accounts during G/L account master record creation. If there is only one retained earnings account, the system automatically uses the one defined in Customizing. If there is more than one retained earnings account, when you create a master record, you can select the retained earnings account for each profit and loss statement account.

steps to create Retained Earning Account

T-code OB53

enter chart of accounts

Account Assignment

in P&L stmt give X

& in Account: give the account number

You can create the account in FS00 later also

For more info you can also go to the below link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/96/8b307e43ce11d189ee0000e81ddfac/content.htm

Hope my answer is helpful to you

Regards,

Mir

Edited by: mirosmank on Dec 30, 2010 9:41 AM

former_member188196
Contributor
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Hello, Pavan:

please refer to

http://www.geekinterview.com/question_details/62701

And about the usage, please refer to

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/96/8b307e43ce11d189ee0000e81ddfac/content.htm

You can configure the retained earning account key via OB53.

Best Regards, Lawrence