This InfoCube is used to create the structures for displaying a financial statement. You can perform title evaluations of the financial statement structures either according to period accounting or cost of sales accounting (using the function area (0FUNC_AREA)).

Since this is a virtual InfoCube, it does not contain any data. Queries for this InfoCube are supplied with data from the BasicCube FI-SL: Transaction Figures (0METL_C01) by the implemented services (service: RS_BCT_ME_TL_DATA_GET_VC01). The virtual InfoCube allows you to display the items in a financial statement structure according to their balances. When a query is executed, the result (profit/loss) is calculated according to a financial statement structure and displayed according to the balance (“contra items”).

You can define any number of hierarchies in the source system and use them as SAP BW display hierarchies to display the financial statement. An item with the same plus/minus sign as the balance is positioned on the credits or debit side of the financial statement together with its lower level items. This procedure is only valid for the characteristic Financial Statement Item (0GLACCEXT). The hierarchy table for this characteristic contains the attribute „Debit/credit sign dependency of a hierarchy node (0BAL_DEPEND)“, which controls the financial statement aggregation for the characteristic Financial Statement Item.

The financial statement result (profit/loss) is calculated by means of the key figures.

Both of these key figures must be added together to form a calculated key figure “Financial Statement Value” for evaluation in the query.

Prerequisites

The following requirements must be fulfilled before you can execute title evaluations for the cash P/L analysis using FI-SL:

The procedure for analyzing the financial statement structures in the Special Ledger is the same as the procedure for analyzing financial statements in the General Ledger (FI-GL) and is described in detail in the Financial Statements documentation in the SAP BW System.

The following media-specific characteristics in the Special Ledger are required for financial statement analyses:

Key Figures

The following key figures are available in the InfoCube for analyzing title data from the Special Ledger:

Structures

The following structures are available for creating queries: