The FI-SL System and Other SAP Applications: Shared Functions (SAP Library

The FI-SL System and Other SAP Applications: Shared Functions

Use

The FI-SL System has interfaces with other SAP applications and shares many functions and processing techniques with these systems.

There are two types of ledgers in the FI-SL System:

Standard ledgers

Special purpose ledgers

Integration

For further information, see the SAP Library, under Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Special Purpose Ledger ® Integration of the FI_SL System with other SAP Applications.

Prerequisites

The functions shared by FI-SL and other systems depends on the standard ledgers delivered with the various SAP applications.

Features

Standard ledgers are configured and delivered by SAP and are controlled within the individual applications.

Standard ledgers are delivered in the following SAP applications:

General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL)

Consolidation (FI-LC)

Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA)

Reconciliation Ledger (CO-OM-CEL)

The individual applications are responsible for determining which of the FI-SL functions are to be used and integrated into the respective application. For example, all applications that use standard ledgers use the same data collection techniques as FI-SL (via the ledger/organizational unit and ledger/organizational unit/activity assignments). FI-SL and Consolidation (FI-LC) also use the same currency translation functions.

Special purpose ledgers are user-defined ledgers designed to meet your specific business requirements according to the dimensions you specify. Special purpose ledgers are the only types of ledger you can create within the FI-SL System.