Integration with New General Ledger Accounting 

Purpose

Starting in mySAP ERP there are two different versions in the General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) component:

·        Classic General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL)

Existing customers can choose between using classic General Ledger Accounting or activating the new General Ledger Accounting.

·        General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New)

The new General Ledger Accounting is automatically active for new customers.

The new General Ledger Accounting is more flexible, particularly in handling parallel accounting, and also enables you to automatically split documents based on defined document splitting characteristics.

Activities

To be able to use the new General Ledger Accounting, you have to configure your ledgers and activate the new General Ledger Accounting. At the same time you have to assign scenarios to your ledgers.

If the Profit Center Accounting component is also active, we recommend that you assign the profit center update scenario to your ledger.

You also have to make additional settings in new General Ledger Accounting and in other components, such as Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA). For more information on the settings for this scenario, see SAP Note 784567.

If you want to assign other scenarios, you need to check if the balancing fields are filled during automatic posting processes in RE-FX (periodic postings, service charge settlement, and so on). It might be necessary for you to program user exits to ensure that these fields are supplied with values.

For more information on scenarios, see Scenario in General Ledger Accounting.

Constraints

Service Charge Settlement (SCS)/Sales-Based Rent Settlement

If all of the following apply, it is not possible to perform service charge settlement and sales-based rent settlement:

·        You activated new General Ledger Accounting and Profit Center Accounting, and assigned the profit center update scenario to your ledger.

·        You posted advance payments as special G/L transactions.

·        You want to settle service charges or sales-based rent using the actual principle.

We recommend that you post advance payments as revenue and run service charge settlement or sales-based settlement using the planned principle.