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Technical Data

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.

Integration

Prerequisites

  • 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.

Features

Key Figure Calculation

You can use this function to calculate all or a selection of the key figures provided in the system.

Calculate Monthly Averages

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.

Correct Monthly Average Balances

You can use this function to correct average balances from the monthly average ledger.

Move and Merge

You use this function to move balances to different ledger combinations.

Import of precalculated averages

You can use this function to post averages that have already been calculated (such as the month-to-date average activity) to FI.

More Information

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   SAP ERP Central Component   Accounting   Financial Accounting   General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New)   Reporting   Financial Statements   Average Daily Balance  .