Process documentationAnalysis of Use: General Ledger Accounting and Profit Center Accounting

 

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The following information is only relevant to customers who are using classic General Ledger Accounting.

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Before you implement SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, you analyze your starting situation regarding the use of Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) in connection with classic General Ledger Accounting.

  • In the universal journal entry, the profit center is defined as a characteristic in line item table ACDOCA. If you use Profit Center Accounting in classic General Ledger Accounting for profit and loss accounts, you can convert Profit Center Accounting completely to the universal journal entry.

    Note Note

    After the migration, you can continue to use classic Profit Center Accounting in parallel. However, this entails investing time and effort in reconciliation, and additional data volume. Please take the following aspects into consideration:

    • If the currencies that you use in Profit Center Accounting differ from those used in General Ledger Accounting, you need to add the differing currency for Profit Center Accounting as local or parallel currency in FI before you migrate to new General Ledger Accounting. For this, see SAP Note 39919Information published on SAP site.

    • In classic Profit Center Accounting, there can be local documents; these are documents that are entered using special posting transactions in classic Profit Center Accounting. As such documents are not transferred to SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, this will result in differences for the reconciliation between Profit Center Accounting and classic General Ledger Accounting.

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  • If you manage balance sheet items (such as fixed assets or receivables and payables) in classic Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) to create a balance sheet at the profit center level, a conversion from the classic Profit Center Accounting to General Ledger Accounting with the new data model (storage of documents in table ACDOCA) is not possible as part of the migration. To create a balance sheet at profit center level, you need to continue to use classic Profit Center Accounting after the migration.