Scenario in General Ledger Accounting

Definition

The scenario combines Customizing settings from different business views. In these Customizing settings, you specify which posting data is transferred from different application components in General Ledger Accounting, such as cost center update or profit center update.

Use

You assign the desired scenarios to your ledgers. For each ledger, you define which fields are filled with posting data from other application components.

  • To assign a scenario to a ledger, in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New) , choose Start of the navigation path Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) Next navigation step Ledgers Next navigation step Ledgers Next navigation step Assign Scenarios and Customer Fields to Ledgers End of the navigation path (see also Making Settings for Ledgers ).

SAP delivers a number of scenarios in the standard system. You cannot define your own scenarios.

  • To display the fields for a scenario, in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New) , choose Start of the navigation path Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) Next navigation step Ledgers Next navigation step Fields Next navigation step Display Scenarios for General Ledger Accounting End of the navigation path .

Structure

For each scenario, the system transfers the posting data relevant for General Ledger Accounting from the actual and plan documents.

Overview of the Scenarios Delivered by SAP

Scenario

Fields Filled

Technical Field Name

Cost center update

Cost center

Sender cost center

RCNTR

SCNTR

Preparation for consolidation

Trading partner

Transaction type

RASSC

RMVCT

Business area

Business area

Trading partner business area

RBUSA

SBUSA

Profit center update

Profit center

Partner profit center

PPRCTR

PRCTR

Segment reporting

Profit center

Segment

Partner segment

PRCTR

PSEGMENT

SEGMENT

Cost of sales accounting

Functional area

Partner functional area

RFAREA

SFAREA

Caution Caution

You have to set up cost of sales accounting . The Functional Area field is not filled automatically by the assignment of the scenario to your ledger. For more information, see Activating Cost of Sales Accounting .

End of the caution.

Integration

If you use document splitting , define the fields of a scenario that you have assigned to the ledger as document splitting characteristics .

Note Note

For more information, see Making Settings for Document Splitting .

End of the note.