Acquisition account

Hi, 

This is the first time, hearing of such a request / multiple acquisition accounts.   It’s fair to assume some other request is driving the idea of separate Acquistion accounts.  

If you describe the true need, what is the reason for the desire to have multiple accounts, we could probably suggest an alternate solution. 

Maybe include the country where the client is considering this as a way to manage a requirement. 

I’ve worked a large number of international projects, it's possible that a given country may have a specific request that I’m not familiar with. 

Best regards, 

Thomas

Hi @Thomas Peterson . Thanks for your quick reply.  For presenting a financial statement in Denmark (and other countries) you must present a note showing what is Acquisition, Disposal and depreciation from the fixed asset register.  My client is suppose to report in to a SAP consolidation tool in the Global mother company. From a string of Account, Costcenter and Transaction code, it must be possible to extract the full financial statement including notes, as that is possible to do in SAP.

In IFS this is difficult, as the voucher string of for example the Acquisition accounts is a mix of different transactions, like FAPxx, M92/M93 and manual debet/credit transactions. I hope you understand the problem and can guide me of how to move on and help this client.  Best Regards Brian Sandfeld

Hi, 

I’ve needed to report back to SAP for a few global clients.  If I remember correctly, we managed this with a custom report. We never created multiple acquisition accounts.  

Best regards, 

Thomas

Hi Thomas. I guess, the normal procedure by most IFS customer is to drag the information for the specification notes for the financial statement, from various reports/analysis in the Fixed Assets and other modules. However it is a manual work and it could be very nice for this to be working smoothly like in SAP, without manual work.  From my own experience as Finance manager with IFS and IFS consultant, this has always been a weak point in IFS. I hope you consider finding a solution for this. For the issue of fixed assets, it would be a matter of adding info concerning the type of transactions to GL voucher. (Additions, Disposals etc.) Maybe a controltype could be created, in order to add this sort of info to a Codepart.  Best Regards Brian 

Hello,
Indeed, the regular way of presenting changes in FA ledger are reports: FA Acquisition and FA Disposals. You can create as well your own quck reports based on FA transactions to display the movemnent details.

Another possibility is using statistical acounts populated by automatic posting rules, driven by acquisition account and voucher type. This requires some discipline in using dedicated voucher types for specific transactions, but is achieveable, I believe.