'Standard Ledgers for Consolidation' (SAP Library - Release Notes for Release 3.0A)

'Standard Ledgers for Consolidation'

Description

Starting with release 3.0, you can activate the writing to standard ledgers for the consolidation interface.

As a result, it is no longer necessary to assign relevant activities to the company codes/companies. Furthermore, the maintenance of a field transfer is no longer necessary. Now, the field transfers are delivered as a standard, i.e., stored in a program.

The field transfer for direct posting into Consolidation has the following structure:

Receiver			Sender
=============			==============
Consolidation			G/L document

RACCT (consolidation item)			ALTKT (corporate account no.)
RMVCT (cons. transaction type)			RMVCT (cons. transaction type)
RASSC (trading partner)			VBUND (tr. partner acct assignment)

During direct posting for creating a periodic extract from Financial Accounting, all necessary database fields are updated.

In FI-LC Ledger Maintenance, only standard ledgers can be displayed and changed. Any new ledger you create in the program automatically becomes a standard ledger.

Please note the following:

1. The consolidation interface is already in use:
If the previously-used field transfer for direct posting does not differ from the one mentioned above (the G/L-document transaction type was called BESEG-BEWAR in release prior to 3.0), and if no user exits are used, then a conversion into a standard ledger can be performed.

If the field transfer does differ, then the ledgers in use in the application "Special Purpose Ledgers" must be continued as so-called 'statistical ledgers,' i.e., all necessary settings for these ledgers can only be made in the application "Special Purpose Ledgers".

2. The interface is now being implemented for the first time:
If the standard field transfer (see above) meets your requirements, the following standard ledgers can be converted:

ledger 10 for table FILCT for update Consolidation

ledger 09 for table GLT3 for periodic transfer of extracts, if using ledgers supplied by SAP or

user-defined ledgers that already exist for the tables mentioned

If the fields do not suffice, or you want to use additional user exits, then you must use application "Special Purpose Ledgers".

Please refer to the release information Distinguishing between standard and statistical ledgers as well as FI-LC: Conversion of Table GLT2.

Change system parameters in customizing

To convert a ledger into a standard ledger, do the following:

Run the program RGUMLFIX for the respective ledger (as described above).

Define the methods for transferring the data to the consolidation parent including further information for the Consolidation system in the Implementation Guide for Preparations for Consolidation, chapter -> General Specifications, -> Scope of Consolidation and Data Transfer in the step Determine the Scope of Consolidation .

See also the related step

Required activities prior to implementation in the Implementation Guide for Consolidation.