Special Purpose Ledger 
Special Purpose Ledger
Purpose
In the application component Special Purpose Ledger, you can define ledgers for reporting purposes. You can keep these user-defined ledgers as general ledgers or subsidiary ledgers with various account assignment objects. Account assignment objects can either be SAP dimensions from various applications (such as account, cost center, business area, profit center) or customer-defined dimensions (such as region).
The Special Purpose Ledger allows you to report at various levels using the values from the various application components. The modules in the Special Purpose Ledger allow you to collect information, combine information, and create totals. You can also modify, assess, and distribute actual and plan values that are transferred from other SAP applications or external systems to the Special Purpose Ledger.
The use of the Special Purpose Ledger has no effect on the actual functions of other SAP applications.
Features
The use of the Special Purpose Ledger offers the following advantages:
You can create your own database tables and define non-standard dimensions (such as valuation area) that meet your business needs. With this you are able to combine and total information for each account assignment combination at the desired level of detail.
Data flow is flexible in the Special Purpose Ledger. With the assignment of transactions to specific company code/ledger company/ledger combinations, you decide which ledgers are to be updated by the data created. You can further limit the number of ledgers that are updated by entering ledger selection criteria.
In the Special Purpose Ledger you can make adjustment and correction postings. You are able, for example, to post data to various versions. Correction postings, for example, are useful for valuating currencies.
You can use various charts of accounts in the Special Purpose Ledger (operating, group, and country-specific charts of accounts).
In the Special Purpose Ledger, you can define your own posting periods. Accounting period definitions determine the fiscal calendar, which defines the fiscal year and the posting periods within the fiscal year.
If you define your own posting periods, you could then create weekly or monthly reports.
If you want to ensure that only valid data is received by the Special Purpose Ledger, you can use validations and substitutions to check and substitute data at the time it is entered.
With the broad function palette of the Special Purpose Ledger, you can total, modify, assess, or distribute actual and plan data from SAP and external applications.
With the Special Purpose Ledger, you can evaluate data from various SAP applications and organizational units and report on this information.
This graphic offers an overview of the functions available in the FI-SL System.
Constraints
The Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL) is a receiver system to which data created in other SAP applications is sent. It is not a sender system for other SAP applications.