Introduction
You can use intercompany accounting when accounting processes are centralized for subsidiaries or branch offices. With intercompany accounting, you can create a single entry that posts to multiple companies. Dynamics 365 Finance provides features that help you set up the system, process transactions, and trace intercompany transactions.
Intercompany journals can be created in various scenarios, such as for daily journals, vendor invoice journals, ledger allocations, and centralized payments. To enable these scenarios, you need to set up intercompany accounting. Learning how to set up intercompany accounting can help you use intercompany journals for ledger allocations and financial journals, such as daily journals, vendor invoice journals, and payment journals.
Intercompany accounting provides ledger transactions for companies that transact with each other, including the appropriate due to and due from transactions. Intercompany trade, however, is handled through sales order and purchase order documents.
For more information about intercompany trade, see Configure and use intercompany trade in Dynamics 365 Finance.