Purpose

Postings in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) do not update the transaction figures in the General Ledger (FI-GL) synchronously. To improve performance, and to reduce the document volume in the general ledger, at periodic intervals you should transfer a summary of the postings from FI-CA to the general ledger.

FI-CA groups the (FI-CA) documents posted automatically, and for each group, records postings totals that you can transfer to the general ledger later.

There are posting programs and reconciliation programs that you can use for the transfer to the general ledger.

The prerequisite for the transfer is that you run General Ledger Accounting in the same system as FI-CA.

If you run General Ledger Accounting separately in a different system, you should configure General Ledger Accounting in the Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable system such that it is possible to transfer data from Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable . You then transfer data to the central general ledger using ALE methods that are part of the General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) component.

The transfer to Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) is independent of the transfer to the General Ledger (FI-GL).

In the General Ledger (FI-GL) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), you can access archived data in FI-CA. This means that you can also display archived FI-CA documents in these components.

The following sections provide you with an overview of the reconciliation measures between Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) and the General Ledger (FI-GL).