Financial Reporting Structure (FIN MDM)

Hierarchical arrangement of G/L accounts or financial statement items for financial reporting.

Technical Data

Entity Type	Business Object
Software Component Version	ESM ERP 606
Technical Name	FinancialReportingStructure(FINMDM)
Object Category	Master Data Object

Business Context and Use

This business object is used for the replication of hierarchical master data of financial statement versions in financial accounting or financial statement item hierarchies in financial consolidation from a central maintenance system into different connected financial accounting or financial consolidation systems.

Notes on SAP Implementation

The replication services for FinancialReportingStructure shall be used for:

Replication of master data of financial statement versions to Financial Accounting systems (FI-GL)
Replication of master data of financial statement item hierarchies to Financial Consolidation systems (e.g. SEM-BCS, CPM-BPC)

This business object has an additional attribute “CategoryCode” for differentiation whether the current master data refers to Financial Accounting (value of CategoryCode = “1”) or to Financial Consolidation (value of CategoryCode = “2”).

The services of this business object only replicate master data, no customizing. This means that the necessary customizing must exist in the backend systems (e.g. FI-GL, SEM-BCS) – otherwise these services will produce error messages for forward error handling framework (that have to be resolved manually in the backend systems).