In General Ledger Main account setup, there is an option "Legal Entity Override". This area is provided where the share chart of account is used and each legal entity has different setting for different GL accounts.

The purpose of this area shall be to assign values contradictory to the General section setting.

Some of the fields available in “Legal Entity Overrides” area are Suspended, Active from and to, Exchange rate type and Do not allow for manual entry etc.

For Instant GL Account 1001 is a modular account and is not allowed for manual entry defined in the General Section of the main account master (“Do not allow manual entry” is checked as yes). We only want to use this account to post direct entries in this GL in only 2 entity out of 30 and this case is similar for 90 other GL accounts.

So, “Legal Entity Overrides” will be useful, if we add the entities in it where we want this GL Account to used for manual entries. Otherwise we have to define 28 legal entities in the “Legal Entity Overrides” and for all 90 GL Accounts.

Other fields in “Legal Entity Override” shall also works the same way as defined above.