New General Ledger Accounting

Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function	`FIN_GL_CI_1`
Type of Business Function	Enterprise business function
Available As Of	SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	Central Applications
Application Component	FI-GL (New)
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition	Not relevant

You use the New General Ledger Accounting business function to optimize the FI-GL (New) application component for the processes of parallel accounting as well as planning and reporting on the basis of profit centers. The following functions are provided:

Posting and Clearing for Specific Ledger Groups
Transfer of External Plan Data to New General Ledger Accounting
Integrated Planning with Controlling for Secondary Cost Elements
Cumulative Plan Data Entry for Balance Sheet Accounts
Drilldown Reports for Profit Centers and Segments
Tool for Transferring Report Writer/Report Painter Reports from Profit Center Accounting
Use of the "Elimination Profit Center" and "Origin Object Type" Fields in Reports
Line Item Extractor
Authorization Check for Profit Centers
Switch to Open Item Management for G/L Accounts
Analysis of Posted Documents for Document Splitting

Integration

For planning purposes, you can transfer plan data for secondary cost elements from Controlling (CO) to new General Ledger Accounting. During the transfer, account determination is performed in the same way as with the real-time integration of Controlling with Financials.

A Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) enables you to transfer plan data from an external data source to new General Ledger Accounting.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components from the version specified:

Type of Component	Component	Is Needed Only for the Following Features
Software Component	SAP_APPL 603
SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI)	From SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 3 Support Package 08	Line Item Extractor

You have set up the General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New) application component. In this way, new General Ledger Accounting is active.

You have activated the New General Ledger Accounting business function.

For information about activating individual functions in Customizing, see the release note FIN_GL_CI_1: New General Ledger Accounting.

Features

Parallel Accounting: Posting and Clearing for Specific Ledger Groups

You use clearing specific to ledger groups if you perform parallel accounting using the ledger approach (and not the account approach). Clearing and making postings specific to ledger groups supports you with your closing tasks. You can use the function for all items that, due to parallel accounting, are posted to multiple ledgers and valuated differently in those ledgers, in particular for provisions (such as provisions for commission, for rebates, for process risks, or provisions for creating and checking year-end closing).

This function achieves greater transparency and efficiency in monitoring individual business transactions as well as during closing.

You can restrict authorization for ledger group-specific posting and clearing to individual users by giving those users authorization for the relevant transactions and ledgers.

For more information, see the SAP Library under Clearing and Posting Specific to Ledger Groups.

Planning

Transfer of External Plan Data to New General Ledger Accounting

A BAPI enables you to transfer plan data from an external data source to new General Ledger Accounting. For each data callup, you can transfer data to a ledger for a plan version, a company code, and a fiscal year. You can also transfer values for selected periods of a fiscal year.

Existing plan data is overwritten during the transfer.

For the transfer of account assignments, the system checks whether they exist and checks their validity. You can use a Business Add-In (BAdI) to specify in addition that the system only transfers plan data records that meet specific criteria.

This function considerably simplifies and shortens the process for transferring plan data.

For more information, see the SAP Library under External Plan Data Transfer.

Integrated Planning with Controlling for Secondary Cost Elements

To reconcile planning in Financials with planning in Controlling, you can transfer plan data for secondary cost elements from Controlling to new General Ledger Accounting. During the transfer, the accounts are determined in the same way as for CO real-time integration.

This function enhances the existing integrated planning function for primary cost elements. It increases the consistency between the plan data in Controlling and the plan data in Financials.

If necessary, you can activate this function in Customizing independently of the other functions in the New General Ledger Accounting business function. The function is not activated automatically when the business function is activated.

For more information, see the SAP Library under Transferring Plan Data from Controlling.

Cumulative Plan Data Entry for Balance Sheet Accounts

When manually planning balance sheet accounts, you can choose at the client level whether you want to plan balance sheet changes or cumulated balance sheet values.

If you plan cumulated balance sheet values, you can carry forward balances for plan data. The system considers the balance carryforward values when determining the balance sheet values for the individual periods but does not display them separately.

For more information, see the SAP Library under Setting Up Planning.

Reporting

Drilldown Reports for Profit Centers and Segments

You can use the following standard drilldown reports for profit center and segment reporting. These reports have a structure that is similar to that of the reports from Profit Center Accounting (8A-PCA001G, 8A-PCA004G, and 8A-PCA011) that they are based on.

Report in FI-GL (New)	Description
0SAPBSPL-03	Profit Centerr Group: Plan/Actual/Variance
0SAPBSPL-04	Profit Center Group: Plan/Plan/Actual
0SAPBSPL-05	Profit Center Group: Key Figures
0SAPBSPL-06	Profit Center Comparison: Return on Investment
0SAPBSPL-13	Segment: Plan/Actual/Variance
0SAPBSPL-14	Segment: Plan/Plan/Actual
0SAPBSPL-15	Segment: Key Figures
0SAPBSPL-16	Segment Comparison: Return on Investment

You can call the executed reports for an individual profit center, for a range of profit centers, for a profit center group, for an individual segment, or for a range of segments.

In the reports, you can drilldown by profit center, by partner profit center, or by segment and by partner segment.

In a drilldown report, you can navigate from the G/L account line item list to an original document in Controlling. Furthermore, you can navigate to the plan line item list.

For more information, see the SAP Library under Drilldown Reports for Profit Centers and Segments.

Tool for Transferring Report Writer/Report Painter Reports from Profit Center Accounting

You can transfer Report Writer reports or Report Painter reports from Profit Center Accounting to new General Ledger Accounting. For this, you can use a tool that supports you as follows:

You can choose a source library and a target library.
If required, the system can also transfer dependent objects (such as sets) with the reports to the new environment.
For fields in the report, you can use substitution (for example, to replace the account number from Profit Center Accounting with the cost element in new General Ledger Accounting).
You can perform the report transfer either in a test run or in an update run. The transfer can also be run during background processing.
Before the reports are actually transferred, the system analyzes for each report in Profit Center Accounting whether the report can be transferred without any problems or with the need for postprocessing, or whether the report cannot be transferred at all.
The report transfer is valuated in detailed logs that are also saved during an update run.

For more information, see the SAP Library under Transfer of Report Writer / Report Painter Reports from Profit Center Accounting.

Use of the "Elimination Profit Center" and "Origin Object Type" Fields in Reports

You can define Report Writer reports or Report Painter reports with elimination of internal business volume by using the Elimination Profit Center (ZZEPRCTR) field.

In drilldown reports, you can use the Origin Object Type (ZZHOART) field.

For more information, see the SAP Library under Including Fields HOART and EPRCTR in Reports.

Line Item Extractor

You can use the extractor 0FI_GL_14 to extract the leading ledger documents for BI Reporting.

For more information, see the Release Note Line Item Extractor for New General Ledger Accounting (New) as well as the SAP Library under General Ledger Accounting (New): Line Items of the Leading Ledger.

Postings to Additional Account Assignments

Authorization Check for Profit Centers

You can assign profit center authorizations for posting, displaying, or clearing documents. When you have activated the authorization check for profit centers, the system reacts as follows:

A document can only be posted if the user has authorization for all profit centers to which postings were made in the document. The authorization check is performed simultaneously during data entry.
For manual clearing, the system only selects those open items that, in accordance with the general ledger view, make postings to profit centers that are initial or for which the user is authorized.
For document display, the system only displays those line items for which the profit centers are initial or in which postings are made to authorized profit centers.

For additional information, see Authorizations for Profit Centers in the SAP Library.

Switch to Open Item Management for G/L Accounts

You can subsequently apply open item management for G/L accounts with line item management.

You can choose between ordinary open item management and open item management for clearing specific to ledger groups.

Analysis of Posted Documents for Document Splitting

To adjust previously posted documents in accordance with the current Customizing settings for document splitting, you can use an analysis program. It is possible to run an analysis for individual documents or for multiple documents at the same time.

For the analysis, the system compares the posted version of a document against a simulated version of the document for which the current Customizing settings were applied. The output log lists all documents for which error messages are issued or for which the comparison between the posted and the simulated version of the document shows differences due to changed Customizing settings.