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If you want to restrict the products a user can have access to then you do this using the repsonsibilities you grant them.

From a financials point of view the Legal Entity defined in that HR form are quite likely a 'dummy' LE and actually the hierarchy you discuss does not hold true. You may account for many Legal Entity in a single OU, this is the most common case in the US. See this post. http://davidhaimes.wordpress....

You can get more detailed information on Advanced Global Intercompany System from my Blog

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You say - " In a strict sense it is the same company" No, not at all in the strict sense, that being the legal aspects, they are different companies - you might want to talk to the finance staff, your controller or corporate accountant about the Intercompany aspects. There are serious lega...

Your decision would depend firstly on where these companies are being set up and what features/modules you plan to use. The post below discusses the general topic and advice http://davidhaimes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/how-do-i-define-my-legal-entities/ You can have 1 OU per LE, but all LE in a singl...

Some additional discussion on the importance and relevance of Intercompany and balancing segments can be found here

http://davidhaimes.wordpress.com/2007/1 ... demo-data/

You need to first consider the accounting flexfield structue that is required Check out this posts for some discussion on that. http://davidhaimes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/how-do-i-define-my-legal-entities/ http://davidhaimes.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/intercompany-segments-and-vision-demo-data/ how t...