You may decide to use the intercompany segment to support intercompany balancing and GIS. The intercompany segment shares the same value set and security rules as the balancing segment. The security rules you have in place may conflict with intercompany balancing you want to automate.

For example, your organization has companies 01, 02, 03, and 04 sharing the same set of books. Current security rules prevent these companies from posting transactions to one another. Instead, the companies must agree on the transactions, then manually enter and post their respective side of the transaction. Should the intercompany segment adopt the same security rules, automatic intercompany balancing would conflict with the security rules.

There are two ways to modify General Ledger to function appropriately with the intercompany segment:

• In the Segments window, disable security for the intercompany segment.
• Create an intercompany segment with an identical value set as the balancing segment. Establish your own security rules for the intercompany segment value set.