Integration of FI-AA and TRM 

Use

The changeover to New General Ledger Accounting raises the question whether the migration to New General Ledger Accounting also has effects on integrated system components such as Asset Accounting (FI-AA) or Treasury and Risk Management (TRM). In many cases, customers are likely to use Asset Accounting.

Prerequisites

The previous year must also be closed from the Asset Accounting view. Consequently, year-end closing needs to have been performed in Asset Accounting for all depreciation areas. It is not possible to reverse year-end closing or to perform backpostings to the previous year because this would change the balance carryforward values. This means that the depreciation in FI-AA needs to have been posted completely in FI (planned depreciation = posted depreciation).

Features

Integration with Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

In a scenario in which you do not use parallel accounting in the form of an account approach in classic General Ledger Accounting and you do not want to use the account approach with the migration to New General Ledger Accounting, you do not need to consider any special features. You use depreciation area 01 in Asset Accounting integrated with the leading ledger, such as 0L, in New General Ledger Accounting. You can use other depreciation areas that serve management accounting purposes, for example, or are used for financial statements for tax purposes and that you do not post in other ledgers of New General Ledger Accounting.

The asset documents that are posted from valuation area 01 to General Ledger Accounting remain connected to FI after the migration. In other words, you can access the corresponding FI document from the asset document because the table BKPF and BSEG are not changed by the migration.

If you use another parallel depreciation area in Asset Accounting that you have assigned to another ledger, the depreciation in migration phase 1 is posted to New General Ledger Accounting. The prerequisite for this is that you have already defined the ledgers in New General Ledger Accounting and have assigned them to depreciation areas in Asset Accounting. This applies in particular to parallel accounting. For more information, see Migration with Parallel Accounting.

Integration of Treasury and Risk Management

If you use Treasury and Risk Management (formerly Corporate Finance Management CFM), the effects from the point of view of migration depend mostly on whether you have implemented parallel accounting in your current environment. This is comparable with Asset Accounting. If you have not implemented parallel accounting and also have only defined a leading ledger in New General Ledger Accounting, you do not need to consider any effects. In this case, only depreciation area 001 is integrated with the leading ledger, such as 0L, in New General Ledger Accounting. If you use more than one ledger in New General Ledger Accounting (not for parallel accounting, but for different reporting perspectives, for example), you need to decide which valuation areas post to which ledgers in New General Ledger Accounting. You dictate this with the accounting principle. If you have not previously defined an accounting principle, you need to do this in New General Ledger Accounting if you want to post selectively to individual ledgers in New General Ledger Accounting.