You try to assign an alternative account to a G/L account but receive an error message. What can be the reason?

Question

Options

• AYou have not assigned the alternative chart of accounts to your company.
• BThe alternative account is already assigned to another G/L account for the company code.
• CThe alternative account has not been created for the company code.
• DYou have not assigned the alternative chart of accounts to your operational chart of accounts.

• A
  9% (3)
• B
  71% (24)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  18% (6)

Explanation

In SAP FI, each alternative account number can only be mapped to one G/L account per company code - this is a system-enforced one-to-one relationship. If you try to assign an alternative account that is already linked to a different G/L account in the same company code, SAP will block it with an error, making B correct.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is incorrect because the alternative chart of accounts is assigned to the company code (via company code settings), not the other way around - and this assignment being missing would produce a different kind of error, not a duplicate-assignment error.
• C is incorrect because alternative accounts exist at the chart-of-accounts level, not the company code level; there is no separate "creation for a company code" step.
• D is a plausible-sounding distractor, but in SAP the alternative chart of accounts is linked to the company code, not to the operational chart of accounts - so the premise of this choice is structurally wrong.

Memory tip: Think of the alternative account assignment as a parking spot - only one car (G/L account) can occupy a given spot (alternative account) per company code at a time. Trying to park a second car in the same spot causes the error.

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