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 New General Ledger Accounting in SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA

 

As of SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, new General Ledger Accounting offers the following new functions and changes to existing functions (compared against SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0: SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA.

  • Balance Carryforward

    In addition to the functions that were previously available, the program for carrying forward balances now enables you to initialize data carried forward previously when you want to repeat a balance carryforward. Furthermore, you can save results lists and then use the program to display them at a later point in time.

  • Integration with Materials Management: Account Determination for Cost of Sales

    You can specify that the cost of sales is posted to different accounts on the basis of the cost component assignments. For more information, see the relevant release note for Controlling.

  • Data Aging

    The previous functions for archiving accounting documents has been replaced by data aging. For more information, see the release note for data aging.

Index Tables and Totals Tables

The data model of new General Ledger Accounting was simplified for the integration with SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA. All data in new General Ledger Accounting is stored in document tables and line item tables. The system calculates the aggregated data in the relevant views.

The new data model eliminates the need to save redundant data (for example, in totals tables or index tables). Furthermore, inconsistencies can no longer arise between FI documents and totals tables.

The following tables have been replaced by views:

  • BSIS

  • BSAS

  • GLT0

  • FAGLFLEXT

  • FAGLBSIS

  • FAGLBSAS

Tables GLT1 and GLT2 are no longer available for new General Ledger Accounting within SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA. Consequently, ledgers for these tables are no longer updated and can no longer be processed or analyzed in the Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL). If you still need to use one of these ledgers, contact SAP Development Support (message component FI-SL-SL). The new data model allows you to continue to use programs to access the database as before. This also applies for user-defined programs.

Roles

You can use the following new roles as copy templates:

  • SAP_SFIN_ACC_ACTUALPOSTING

  • SAP_SFIN_ACC_CLOSING

  • SAP_SFIN_ACC_MASTERDATA

  • SAP_SFIN_ACC_REPORTING

The new roles contain applications for both new General Ledger Accounting and Overhead Cost Controlling.

Constraints

The following functions are no longer available with SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA:

  • Balance Sheet Planning

  • Reports for comparing planning data and actual data in Profit Center Accounting

  • Destruction of data or deletion of FI documents (Information Lifecycle Management)

  • Average balance ledger

Effects on Existing Data

Classic General Ledger Accounting is no longer available due to the changed data model within SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA. If you have previously been using classic General Ledger Accounting, you can transfer your data to new General Ledger Accounting during the migration to SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA.

You can use a range of migration programs to migrate your existing data to the new data structure.

Effects on Customizing

Since Customizing for classic General Ledger Accounting is no longer available with SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, the following Customizing activities have been included in Customizing for new General Ledger Accounting:

  • Closing Cockpit

    You find the Closing Cockpit in Customizing for General Ledger Accounting (New) under Start of the navigation path Periodic Processing Next navigation step Closing Cockpit (Manage Templates and Task Lists) End of the navigation path.

  • Regroup

    You now find all Customizing activities for reclassifying P&L accounts and balance sheet accounts as account assignment objects (such as business areas and profit centers) in Customizing for General Ledger Accounting (New) under Start of the navigation path Periodic Processing Next navigation step Reclassify End of the navigation path.

More Information

For more information about the migration to new General Ledger Accounting within the framework of SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, see the release note on the migration to SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA.