What account types can you use to classify general ledger accounts in SAP S/4HANA? There are 3 correct answers to this question.

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Options

• ANon-operating expense or income
• BSecondary costs
• CField status group
• DReconciliation accounts
• EBalance sheet

• A
  91% (29)
• C
  6% (2)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

In SAP S/4HANA, G/L accounts must be assigned one of five account types that determine how the account behaves in financial postings. Non-operating expense or income (A) covers P&L items outside core operations (e.g., interest expense), Secondary costs (B) are used for internal cost allocation postings (cost elements), and Balance sheet (E) covers assets, liabilities, and equity accounts - all three are valid, selectable account types in the G/L master record.

Field status group (C) is a configuration object that controls field behavior during document entry (required, optional, suppressed), but it is a property assigned to an account, not an account type itself. Reconciliation accounts (D) is a characteristic that certain balance sheet accounts carry (linking sub-ledgers like AR/AP to the G/L), but it is not a standalone account type you select in the account type field.

Memory tip: Think of the five SAP S/4HANA account types as "B-PNSC" - Balance sheet, Primary costs or revenue, Non-operating expense or income, Secondary costs, Cash accounts. If an answer choice describes a field control setting (Field Status Group) or a sub-ledger linkage property (Reconciliation), it's describing a configuration attribute, not an account type.

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