Head office in the accounting segment of the customer master record

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

how to configure head office field in the accounting segment of the customer master record ? and what does this field do ?

thanks very much!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Head office account represents a head office/branch relationship that exists for a customer or vendor in the SAP system.

Lets say Kamesh company is head office and it has two branches offices under name XYZ Traders & ABC Retailers.

You create customer master records for all 3 of them using transaction XD01.

To link branch accounts to a head office account, you must enter the number of the head office account in the Head office field in the branch account master record i.e. for XYZ Traders & ABC Retailers, you select Kamesh Company account number (or customer number) as Head office in field 'Head office' of customer master record.

When you use this relationship, Payments are made from the head office account, while purchase orders, deliveries or invoices are posted to the branch account.