Scenario in General Ledger Accounting 

Definition

The scenario combines Customizing settings from different business views. In these Customizing settings, you specify which posting data is transferred from different application components in General Ledger Accounting, such as cost center update or profit center update.

Use

You assign the desired scenarios to your ledgers. For each ledger, you define which fields are filled with posting data from other application components.

●      To assign a scenario to a ledger, in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New), choose Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) → Ledgers → Ledgers → Assign Scenarios and Customer Fields to Ledgers (see also Making Settings for Ledgers).

SAP delivers a number of scenarios in the standard system. You cannot define your own scenarios.

●      To display the fields for a scenario, in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New), choose Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) → Ledgers → Fields → Display Scenarios for General Ledger Accounting.

Structure

For each scenario, the system transfers the posting data relevant for General Ledger Accounting from the actual and plan documents.

Overview of the Scenarios Delivered by SAP

Scenario	Fields Filled	Technical Field Name
Cost center update	Cost center Sender cost center	RCNTR SCNTR
Preparation for consolidation	Trading partner Transaction type	RASSC RMVCT
Business area	Business area Trading partner business area	RBUSA SBUSA
Profit center update	Profit center Partner profit center	PPRCTR PRCTR
Segment reporting	Profit center Segment Partner segment	PRCTR PSEGMENT SEGMENT
Cost of sales accounting	Functional area Partner functional area	RFAREA SFAREA

You have to set up cost of sales accounting. The Functional Area field is not filled automatically by the assignment of the scenario to your ledger. For more information, see Activating Cost of Sales Accounting.

Integration

If you use document splitting, define the fields of a scenario that you have assigned to the ledger as document splitting characteristics.

For more information, see Making Settings for Document Splitting.