IMG > Financial Accounting > General Ledger Accounting > Business Transactions > Closing > Documenting > Define Financial Statement Versions

You define the versions you need to create a balance sheet and profit and loss statement. You can create number of financial statement versions for your chart of accounts one for the local reporting, one for parent reporting. In each version you can group the GL codes differently.
You can define versions for a specific chart of accounts, for a group chart of accounts, or without any specific assignment.

You then determine the financial statement items for your version.

You assign groups of accounts to the items at the lowest levels of the hierarchy. You can select the criteria that determine which items the accounts are displayed in. For example, accounts or groups of accounts can be assigned to particular items based on their balance.

Alternatively, you can also assign functional area intervals at the lowest level of the structure, instead of account intervals. Either account intervals or functional area intervals can be assigned to a financial statement item. You must explicitly define financial statement versions to which functional areas are assigned as such. You do this by setting the "Fun.area allowed" indicator. This financial statement version can then also be used by the notes to financial statement in the G/L account information system.