Duplicate a company in AX 2012

Import duplicate company data to use for testing [AX 2012]

 I am going to explain the steps that worked for me.

1. Create your new Legal entity

2. Set up the Ledger form which is a shared table. I selected the same account structures as the company I was copying from.

3. Create a definition group to export the data from main source company. If I didnt want master data such as customers, vendors etc. I would untick Main group.

Included shared tables in my export.

Now export your dat/def.

4. Now I imported without shared tables.

5. The result is good. Chart of accounts and posting profiles all work fine. Vendors, customers imported fine (note: the vendor uses the same partyId as the source company).