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As of enhancement package 7, SP08 you can use Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) with General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) in SAP Simple Finance, on-premise edition 1503 (or a more recent release).

General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) in SAP Simple Finance works with a different document structure than General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) that is part of Financial Accounting in SAP ERP.

Due to this document structure, you no longer have to update Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) separately. Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable updates both components in SAP Simple Finance using totals records (transaction FPG1).

You can no longer use the transaction for transferring account assignment data to Profitability Analysis (transaction FPG3).

Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable automatically recognizes which general ledger accounting you're using. It is not necessary to make Customizing settings or activate a business function to establish the integration.

To update the general ledger in SAP Simple Finance, you have to ensure that all necessary data is contained in the totals records. If you are using SAP Simple Finance, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable therefore automatically transfers the profitability segments to the totals records.

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Particularly if you use a large number of characteristic combinations, this can lead to an increase in the number of totals records for each reconciliation key.

For the separate transfer to SAP ERP, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable saved the data relevant for CO-PA (profitability segments) only in line items, and did not transfer the data to totals records. The result was that the number of totals records for each reconciliation key remained small.

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Before you can change to General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) in SAP Simple Finance:

  • You have to transfer all existing reconciliation keys, both to General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) and to Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), in SAP ERP.

  • You need to have reconciled General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) in SAP ERP with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and corrected any errors that occurred.

You access the reconciliation programs on the SAP Easy Access screen under Start of the navigation path Periodic Processing Next navigation step Forward Postings Next navigation step Forward Postings Next navigation step Reconciliation End of the navigation path.

After the changeover, it is no longer possible to correct transferred reconciliation keys.

If reconciliation errors do not appear until after the changeover to General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) in SAP Simple Finance, contact SAP using a customer incident.

The system enters the value G in the XUECOPA indicator for reconciliation keys that are created after the changeover.

To reconcile reconciliation keys that are created after the changeover, you use the existing functions.