Technical Name of Business Function |
FIN_GL_ADB |
Type of Business Function |
Industry Business Function |
Available As Of |
SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Central Applications (of which SAP_APPL is relevant) |
Application Component |
General Ledger Accounting (New) and Classic General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) |
Required Business Function |
Not relevant |
You can use this business function at any time during the fiscal year to calculate average daily balances. For example:
Month-to-date average balance
Quarter-to-date average balance
Year-to-date average balance
The system calculates average daily balances on the basis of the posting date of the document. You can correct and adjust average daily balances manually.
You can also calculate various key figures, such as the prior day balance and the year-to-date average balance.
You can use average daily balances for regulatory reporting, for instance, or to analyze your funding costs.
You have installed the following components as of the specified version (or higher):
Type of Component |
Component |
Only Needed for the Following Functions |
---|---|---|
Software component |
SAP_APPL 6.05 |
|
BI Content |
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 5 SP01 |
Depending on the functions that you want to use, you have set up the General Ledger Accounting (New) (FI-GL (New)) application component or the classic General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) application component, plus the Special Ledger (FI-SL) application component.
You can use this function to calculate all or a selection of the key figures provided in the system.
You can use this function to update the monthly average ledger. You should do so once a month. This improves system performance and minimizes rounding errors.
You can use this function to correct average balances from the monthly average ledger.
You use this function to move balances to different ledger combinations.
You can use this function to post averages that have already been calculated (such as the month-to-date average activity) to FI.
For a detailed list of the new and changed functions, see the release information FIN_GL_ADB: Average Daily Balance (New).
For more information about each function, see SAP Library under
.