SAP Universal Journal- Reduced Memory Footprints

The concept of the SAP Universal Journal emerges with the launch of SAP S/4 HANA
Finance. With S/4HANA SAP eliminated data, such as aggregates and indexes, it also
further reduced memory footprints and table design.

The Universal Journal in SAP analyzes the major impact of S/4 HANA Finance’s
table architecture design on General Ledger Accounting. Furthermore, it also
checks the impact of business process transactions and configuration changes.

Features & Benefits of SAP Universal Journal

When we compare SAP ECC to S/4HANA database, we come across so many benefits
which universal journal has brought in S4 HANA Finance.

We learn about them each here below:

One Database – ACDOCA

The ACDOCA Table helps to keep Reports and tables in one database itself. It does not
need to store balanced and open items separately.

However, this was not the same way in SAP’s ECC model. In ECC, the system
stores SAP General Ledger (G/L), customer and vendor balances and open items in
various database tables to support reporting.

All the fields from sub-modules of S/4HANA Finance are available in the table
ACDOCA. These Sub-modules are:

 Controlling (CO)
 Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

 Material Ledger (ML)

 Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and more.

We would further read down all the features of ACDOCA in the mid of this article.

Secondary Cost Element in S/4HANA

Now in SAP S/4HANA Finance, we can create secondary cost elements as G/L
accounts. Consequently, it allows financial statements version as well to include and
show secondary cost elements.
However, in the earlier version of SAP (ECC), the FI (i.e. the financials) does not
include secondary cost elements. As a result, the financial statements could not display
the secondary cost elements.