FI extraction

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FI extraction:
FI Module deals with accounting and financial needs of an organization.
Financial Accounting is broken down into the following sub-modules:

1. Accounts Receivables

2. Accounts Payable

3. Asset Accounting

4. Bank Accounting
 5. Consolidation

6. Funds Management

7. General Ledger

8. Special Purpose Ledger

9. Travel Management

Note: Only discussing key areas (AP/AR/GL/SL) briefly because of the complexity of the area
We can extract the financial data at totals level / line item level.
In general, we will use R/3 line item tables as the data source for extracting the data to allow drill down capability
from summarized data to line-item details.
Financial Accounting data can be extracted directly from the tables.
Depending on the business requirement we can use either FI-SL or standard BW content extractors (FI-AR, FI-
AP, and FI-GL) to fetch FI data.
Note: FI-SL will be discussed under "one stage stop to know all about BW Extractors -Part2 "which explains
about Application specific customer generated extractors
FI-AR, FI-AP, and FI-GL:
General Ledger: All accounting postings will be recorded in General Ledger. These postings are real time to
provide up-to-date visibility of the financial accounts.
Account Receivable: Accounts Receivables record all account postings generated as a result of Customer sales
activity. These postings are automatically updated in the General Ledger
Accounts Payable: Accounts Payables record all account postings generated as a result of Vendor purchasing
activity. Automatic postings are generated in the General Ledger as well.
Standard FI data sources:
0FI_GL_4 (G/L Accounts- line items)
Takes the data from the FI document tables (BKPF/BSEG) that are relevant to general ledger accounting
(compare table BSIS).
0FI_AP_4 (AP-line items) and 0FI_AR_4 (AR- line items
Selections are made from tables BSID/BSAD (Accounts Receivable) and BSIK/BSAK (Accounts Payable)
How the data extraction happens?
In FI extraction 0FI_AR_4 and 0FI_AP_4 are linked with 0FI_GL_4 in order to maintain consistent data transfer
from OLTP system (it is called coupled data extraction, Ref OSS notes 428571).
Note: Uncoupled" extraction possible with Plug-In PI 2002.2, see OSS note 551044
0FI_GL_4 writes the entries into the time stamp table BWOM2_TIMEST in the SAP R/3 System with a new upper
limit for the time stamp selection.

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And now, 0FI_AP_4 and 0FI_AR_4 will copy this new upper limit for the time stamp selection during the next
data extraction in the SAP R/3 System. This ensures the proper synchronization of accounts payable and
accounts receivable accounting with respect to G/L accounting.
Full load: Not a valid choice because of large volumes of detailed R/3 transaction data.
Delta load:
Note: Here the delta identification process works differently for new financial records and for changed financial
records.
New Financial accounting line items which are posted in SAP R/3 sytem will be identified by the extractor using
the time stamp in the document header (Table BKPF-(field) CPUDT).
By scheduling an initialization IP all the historical data can be loaded into BW from the application tables and it
also sets "X" indicator in field LAST_TS (Flag: 'X' = Last time stamp interval of the delta extraction).That means
after the last delta, initialization was done.
OLTPSOURCE
AEDAT/AETIM
UPD
DATE_LOW
DATE_HIGH
LAST_TS
0FI_GL_4
16 May 2007/20:15
Init
01 Jan 1990
15 May 2007
0FI_GL_4
24 May 2007/16:59
delta
16 May 2007
23 May 2007
0FI_GL_4
21 June 2007/18:12
delta
15 June 2007
20 June 2007
X
0FI_AP_4
18 May2007/21:23

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Init
01 Jan 1990
15 May 2007