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SAP New General Ledger

Configuration

SAP R/3 ENTERPRISE 4.7

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SAP New Ledger ECC 6.0

INDEX

1. INTRODUCTION 4

2. ACTIVATE NEW GENERAL LEDGER 5

3. DEFINE LEDGER FOR GENERAL LEDGER (NEW) 7

4. ASSIGN COMPANY CODE TO A FISCAL YEAR VARIANT 9

5. DEFINE ACTIVATE ADDITIONAL LEDGERS 10

6. DEFINE CURRENCY OF LEADING LEDGERS 11

7. DEFINE SEGMENT 13

8. DEFINE DOCUMENT SPLITTING CHAR. FOR GL ACCOUNTING. 14

9. ACTIVATE DOCUMENT SPLITTING 16

10. SPECIFY ACCOUNT ASSIGNMENT TYPES FOR OBJECTS 18

11. DEFINE ACCOUNT DETERMINATION FOR REAL TIME INTEGRATION 20

12. DEFINE DOCUMENT SPLITTING CHARACTERISTICS FOR CONTROLLING 22

13. DEFINE POST CAPITALIZATION OF CASH DISCOUNTS FOR ASSETS 24

14. DEFINE VARIANTS FOR REAL TIME INTEGRATION 25

15. ASSIGN VARIANTS FOR REAL TIME INTEGRATION TO COMPANY CODES 26

16. CLASSIFY G/L ACCOUNTS FOR DOCUMENT SPLITTING. 28

17. DEFINE VALUATION AREA 30

18. DEFINE VALUATION METHODS 32

19. ASSIGN SCENARIOS AND CUSTOMER FIELD TO LEDGERS 34

20. DEFINE ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES 36

21. ASSIGN ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES TO LEDGER GROUPS 38

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22. DEFINE DOCUMENT TYPES FOR ENTRY VIEW IN ONE LEDGER 39

23. TRANSFER BALANCE CARRY FORWARD 41

24. CREATE GL LINE ITEMS AND BAL. CARRY FORWARD. (PRIOR YEAR) 43

25. TRANSFER DOCUMENTS TO NEW GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTING. 45

26. DEFINE AND ASSIGN MIGRATION PLAN 47

27. ACTIVATE MIGRATION PLAN MANUALLY 49

28. EXECUTE MIGRATION COCKPIT 51

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1. INTRODUCTION

Welcome and Hallo everybody this section of our book deals


with New Ledger and we have taken great efforts to ensure that
we present the configuration in a very simple yet detailed
manner.

The New Ledger is an add on in ECC version of SAP R/3.There


are certain advantages built in the New Ledger over the
Traditional General Ledger which are as follows: -

o Segmental Reporting is possible because of Real time


document Split. In the Traditional General Ledger concept
such splitting was possible through periodic Transfer of
Balance at the Profit Center Level.
o Reconciliation between Finance and Controlling Ledger
can be achieved online and it no more requires a periodic
updating.
o Multiple Ledgers can be maintained within the New
General Ledger. This negates the purpose of maintaining
multiple Ledgers through Special Purpose Ledger.
o The New Ledger has an extended Data structure compared
to Traditional General Ledger, which allows it to store
additional fields for Reporting and Analysis.

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2. Activate New General Ledger

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting Æ Financial Accounting Global Settings Æ


Activate New General Ledger

T Code: - FAGL_ACTIVATION

In the above screen you activate new General Ledger Accounting


there by you achieve the following:-

o The new General Ledger Accounting functionalities are


made available.
o The previous Financial Accounting Implementation
screen is replaced by the Financial Accounting (New)
menu. Implementation screen.
o This process activates the tables of new General Ledger
Accounting so that your posting data is written to them.
I.e. FAGLFLEXT Table which is the new General Ledger
Table.

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The Financial Accounting Basic Settings (New) and General


Ledger (New) allows to make the settings for new General Ledger
Accounting.

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3. Define Ledger for General Ledger (New)

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic


Settings(New) Æ Ledger Æ Ledger Æ Define Ledgers for General Ledger

In the above IMG activity you define the ledgers that you use in
General Ledger Accounting. The ledgers are based on a totals
table. SAP recommends using the delivered standard totals
table FAGLFLEXT.

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The following types of ledgers are available:

• Leading Ledger

The leading ledger is based on the same accounting


principle as that of the consolidated financial statement. It
is integrated with all subsidiary ledgers and is updated in
all company codes. You must designate one ledger as the
leading ledger.
In each company code, the leading ledger automatically
receives the settings that apply to that company code: the
currencies, the fiscal year variant, and the variant of the
posting periods.
For Co Code 1100 L has been defined as the leading
Ledger.

• Non-Leading Ledger

The non-leading ledgers are parallel ledgers to the leading


ledger. They can be based for example on local accounting
principles. You must activate a non-leading ledger by
company code.

In the Present case. i.e. Co –Code 1100 we have defined L


as the leading Ledger and LL as the Non Leading Ledger.

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4. Assign Company Code to a Fiscal Year Variant

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic


Settings(New) Æ Ledger Æ Fiscal Year and Posting Periods Æ Assign
Company Code to Field Status Variants

In the above screen for company code 1100 you specify K4 as


the fiscal year variant is to be used

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5. Define Activate Additional Ledgers

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic


Settings(New) Æ Ledger Æ Ledger Æ Define Activate Additional Ledgers

In this IMG activity, you make the following settings for the
non-leading ledgers for company code1100

• You activate the non-leading ledgers in the company code.

• You can define additional currencies beyond that of the


leading ledger. The first currency of a non-leading ledger is
always the currency of the leading ledger (and hence that
of the company code). For the second and third currencies
of a non-leading ledger, you can only use currency types
that you have specified for the leading ledger e.g. EUR

• You can define a fiscal year variant that differs from that
of the leading ledger. If you do not enter a fiscal year
variant, the fiscal year variant of the company code is used
automatically. In case of XYZ Ltd we have kept the Fiscal
Year Variant as blank.

• You can specify a different Posting period Variant for the


Non Leading Ledger. In case XYZ LTD it is kept as blank
so it will default from the leading ledger.

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6. Define Currency of Leading Ledgers

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic


Settings(New) Æ Ledger Æ Ledger Æ Define Currency of Leading Ledgers

In this IMG activity, you specify the currencies to be applied in


the leading ledger. You can make the following settings for each
company code:

• The local currency (as company code currency) is specified


in the company code settings.

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• You can define one or two additional local currencies that


you store per company code parallel to the first local
currency.

For additional local currencies you define the following data per
company code

I Currency Type
Ii Ex Rate Type

For Co Code 1100 USD has been defined as the Local currency
and EUR has been defined as the Additional currency.

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7. Define Segment

Menu Path

IMG Æ Enterprise Structure Æ Definition Æ Financial Accounting Æ Segment

Here you define your Segments. You then define your profit
centers; you can enter an associated segment in the master
record of a profit center. The segment is then derived from the
assigned profit center during posting. For XYZ Ltd we have
defined two Segments SEG A & SEGB

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8. Define Document Splitting Char. for GL Accounting.

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ General Ledger Accounting (New) Æ


Business Transactions Æ Document Splitting Æ Define Document Splitting
Characteristics for General Ledger Accounting

In the above screen you need specify for which characteristics


you want to perform document splitting in General Ledger
Accounting. You can define the following:

• Whether you want to apply a zero balance setting for the


characteristic

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• Whether you want to use a partner field to document a


sender/receiver relationship in the clearing lines generated
additionally in the document

• Whether you want the characteristic to be a required


entry field (whereby the system only accepts postings
when this field can be filled with a value from the
document splitting)

Requirements
The characteristics that you specify should be maintained in at
least one of your ledgers.

Standard settings

If you have not yet entered any characteristics, the system


proposes appropriate fields that are updated in your ledgers.

In case of XYZ Ltd we have selected the following


characteristics as a criterion for document splitting.

(i) Profit Center


(ii) Business Area
(iii) Segment

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9. Activate Document Splitting

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ General Ledger Accounting (New) Æ


Business Transactions Æ Document Splitting Æ Activate Document
Splitting

In the above screen you activate document splitting. The


splitting method used for XYZ Ltd is that delivered by SAP as
standard, which contains the splitting rules for the
different business transactions. If this splitting method does not
meet your requirements, you can first define and then select
your own method in Customizing for document splitting. You do

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this under Extended Document Splitting -> Assign Splitting


Method.
The activation then applies for the entire client. You can
explicitly exclude individual company codes from document
splitting. This means, however, that you are then no longer able
to create any cross-company-code transactions containing
company codes that have divergent settings for document
splitting.

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10. Specify Account Assignment Types for objects

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ Asset Accounting Æ Integration with


General Ledger Æ Additional Account Assignment objects Æ Specify
Account Assignment Types for Account Assignment objects

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The possible account assignment types for account assignment


objects are: APC balance sheet posting or account assignment
of depreciation. In this step, you assign account assignment
types to the account assignment objects. These assignments are
dependent on

• Company code

• Depreciation area

• Transaction type

If you want to assign both account assignment types to an


account assignment object, you have to make at least two table
entries for the account assignment object.

You can make a generic entry, using an asterisk (*), for the
transaction type. The system then uses the account assignment
type you entered for all transaction types for that account
assignment object (in the company code and depreciation area.

In the above case the Account assignment Type used is Cost


Center and dependent on Depreciation Area.

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11. Define Account Determination for Real Time


Integration

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic


Settings(New) Ledger Æ Ledger Æ Account determination for Real Time
Integration ÆDefine Account Determination for Real Time Integration

In the screen you define account determination for the real-time


integration of Controlling (CO) with Financial Accounting (FI). In

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the above case for XYZ Ltd GL Account 690000 has been
assigned for FI-CO reconciliation Posting.

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12. Define Document Splitting Characteristics for


Controlling

Menu Path

IMG Æ Financial Accounting (New) Æ General Ledger Accounting (New)


Ledger Æ General Ledger Accounting (New ) Business Transactions Æ
Document Splitting Æ Define Document Splitting Characteristics for
Controlling

In the above screen, you specify on which additional Controlling


characteristics you intend to apply document splitting. The
additional characteristics are not relevant for General Ledger
Accounting. Instead, they are relevant for other application

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components in controlling that use documents transferred from


General Ledger Accounting.

For this, the system can divide up the line items during the
following General Ledger Accounting processes:

• Clearing of Vendor/Customer Items

o Cash Discount Paid

o Cash Discount Received

o Lost Cash Discount

• Clearing of Open Items

o Realized Exchange Rate Differences

• Foreign Currency Valuation for Open Items

o Expenses / profit from foreign currency valuation

• Flat-Rate Individual Value Adjustment for


Vendor/Customer Items

o Expenses / profit from individual value adjustment

In case of Co Code 1100 - XYZ Ltd the Controlling


characteristics defined are Cost Center & Internal Order for
document splitting.

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13. Define Post Capitalization of cash Discounts for Assets

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ General Ledger Accounting (New) Ledger Æ


General Ledger Accounting (New ) Business Transactions Æ Document
Splitting Æ Define Post Capitalization of cash Discounts for Assets

In this IMG activity, you define whether the cash discount that
is applied in the payment of a asset-relevant invoice should be
capitalized to the asset. When you select this setting, the cash
discount amount is not posted to the cash discount account in
the payment document, but instead directly capitalized.

Requirements

Document splitting is activated.

Activities

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Choose the Asset field if you want to have cash discounts


capitalized to assets.

14. Define Variants for Real Time Integration

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic Settings (New)


Ledger Æ Ledgers Æ Real Time Integration of Controlling with Financial
AccountingÆ Define Variants for Real Time Integration

In this IMG activity, you define variants for the real-time


integration of Controlling (CO) with Financial Accounting (FI).

If you use real-time integration, you can deactivate the


reconciliation ledger. In this way, the reports that select the
data from the reconciliation ledger no longer display any data.

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15. Assign Variants for Real Time Integration to Company


Codes

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic Settings (New)


Ledger Æ Ledgers Æ Real Time Integration of Controlling with Financial
AccountingÆ Assign Variants for Real Time Integration to Company Codes.

In this IMG activity, you assign to one or more company codes


the variants in which you have combined Customizing settings
for the real-time integration of Controlling with Financial
Accounting.

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If you assign no variant to a company code, no real-time


integration is activated for that company code

Co-Code 1100 is assigned to Standard variant 0001

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16. Classify G/L Accounts for Document splitting.

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ General Ledger Accounting (New) Æ


Business Transactions Æ Document SplittingÆ Classify G/L Accounts for
Document splitting.

Each business transaction that is entered is analyzed during


the document splitting procedure. In this analysis, the system
determines for each line item whether it is an item that remains
unchanged or an item that should be split.

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In order that document splitting recognizes how the individual


document items are to be handled, you need to classify them.
You do this by assigning them to an item category. The account
number determines the item category. In this IMG activity, you
need to assign the following accounts in the system:

• Revenue account

• Expense account

• Bank account/cash account

• Balance sheet account

The classification of all other accounts is known to the system,


so you do not have to enter them here. You can enter an
account interval since the system recognizes SAP-specific
classifications and does not allow SAP settings to be overwritten
by your own settings

The Accounting Intervals for Co Code 1100 are as follows: -

Account To Account From Category Description


121000 125100 02000 Customer
211000 214070 03000 Vendor
191000 191300 01000 Balance Sheet
Item

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17. Define Valuation Area

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ General Ledger Accounting (New) Æ Periodic


Processing Æ ValuateÆ Define Valuation Area.

In the above screen, you define your valuation areas for your
closing operations. With the valuation areas, you can report
different valuation approaches and post to different accounts.
You can save the valuation result separately for each document

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item and use it for other closing operations (such as sorted


lists).

In foreign currency valuation, the saved valuation differences


are not used to calculate the realized exchange rate differences.

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18. Define Valuation Methods

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ General Ledger Accounting (New) Ledger Æ


Periodic Processing Æ ValuateÆ Define Valuation Methods.

In this IMG activity, you define your valuation areas for your
closing operations. With the valuation areas, you can report
different valuation approaches and post to different accounts.

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You can save the valuation result separately for each document
item and use it for other closing operations (such as sorted
lists).

For Co Code XYZ we have defined a Valuation Area as L.

Please note that in foreign currency valuation, the saved


valuation differences are not used to calculate the realized
exchange rate differences.

When you define a valuation area, you must assign a valuation


method to it.

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19. Assign Scenarios and Customer Field to Ledgers

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic Settings (New) Æ


Ledgers Æ LedgerÆ Assign Scenarios and Customer Field to Ledgers

In this IMG activity, you assign the following to your ledgers:

• Scenarios

This determines what fields in a ledger are updated when


it receives posting from other application components.

• Custom Fields

You can add custom fields (that you have already defined)
to the ledger.

• Versions

This enables you to make general version settings for the


ledger that depend on the fiscal year. In the versions, you

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specify whether actual data is recorded, whether manual


planning is allowed, and whether planning integration
with Controlling is activated.

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20. Define Accounting Principles

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic Settings(New) Æ


Ledgers Æ Parallel AccountingÆ Define Accounting Principles.

In the above activity, you define your accounting principles. You


then assign the desired ledger group to the accounting
principles.

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For performance reasons, you can combine several different


accounting principles in one entry; for example, you create one
accounting principle for IAS/US GAAP. This can be useful if, in
an application, you have to create the data for each accounting
principle, even if the postings derived from the data are
identical for each accounting principle.

Caution
The accounting principles that you have defined are available in
various functions in Financial Accounting, such as in the report
for foreign currency valuation, in Manual Accruals. SAP
therefore advises you not to delete accounting principles.

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21. Assign Accounting Principles to Ledger Groups

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic Settings (New) Æ


Ledgers Æ Parallel AccountingÆAssign Accounting Principles to Ledger
Groups.

In this IMG activity, you assign the desired ledger group to your
accounting principles.

In the above case the leading Ledger LL ha been assigned to


Accounting Principle IA & LO

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22. Define Document Types for Entry view in One Ledger

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting Basic Settings(New) Æ


Document Æ Document TypesÆDefine Document Types for Entry View in
One Ledger

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In this IMG activity, you assign document types and a number


range for document number assignment to your non-leading
ledgers.

• You do not have to perform this IMG activity for your


leading ledger.

• You only have to make the settings for those non-leading


ledgers that you have selected as the representative ledger
in a ledger group when you want to perform postings for
this ledger group. You do not have to perform this IMG
activity for any non-leading ledger that, although
belonging to a ledger group, is not selected as the
representative ledger in that group.

In the above case for Document Type SA number range


assigned is 21.

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23. Transfer Balance Carry Forward

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) ÆGeneral Ledger Accounting (New) Æ


Preparation for Productive Start Æ Data Transfer Æ Balance Carry
ForwardÆTransfer Balance Carry Forward

T Code: - RFAGL_UPLOAD_CARRY _Balance Carry Forward

In this IMG activity, you can generate for new General Ledger
Accounting an opening balance (balance carry forward period)
for the current fiscal year by transferring the balance carry
forward from an existing ledger into a ledger in new General

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Ledger Accounting. The balance forward can be transferred


from the following ledgers:

• Ledgers in classic General Ledger Accounting 0

• Parallel currency ledgers in classic General Ledger


Accounting

• Cost-of-sales ledgers 0F

• Profit center ledgers 8A

• User-defined FI-SL ledgers

You specify the source ledger (existing ledger), the fiscal year,
the target ledger, and the currency types that you want to
transfer.

You can restrict the selection to particular company codes and


accounts or account intervals. The program then finds the
suitable currency types in the target ledger and transfers the
corresponding values to the balance carry forward period.

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24. Create GL line items and Bal. Carry Forward. (Prior


Year)

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting General Ledger(New) Æ


Preparation for Productive Start Æ Migration of existing SAP dataÆMigration
Tools Æ Open Item from Prior Fiscal Year Æ Create General Ledger line
items and Balance Carry Forward.

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The above IMG Activity is used to carry forward General Ledger


open line item to New General Ledger. This Line item relates to
open item for the Prior Year.

In the Selection Screen the Co Code and the Fiscal Year (Prior
Year) needs to keyed in along with the Migration Plan.

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25. Transfer Documents to New General Ledger


Accounting.

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting General Ledger(New) Æ


Preparation for Productive Start Æ Migration of existing SAP dataÆMigration
Tools Æ Document Transfer from Current Fiscal Year Æ Transfer
Documents to New General Ledger Accounting.

RGURECGLFLEX Copy Documents from the Current Year to


the New
Ledger

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The above Transaction Transfer Documents from for a


particular Co Code, Fiscal Year and the Posting Period from the
current Year General Ledger to ALL Ledgers or Load Docs into
one Ledger depending upon which radio button you have
selected.

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26. Define and Assign Migration Plan

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting General Ledger(New) Æ


Preparation for Productive Start Æ Migration of existing SAP dataÆDefine
and Assign Migration Plan

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In the Above IMG Activity we have define a Migration Plan Z11


for Migrating data without Document Splitting for Migrating of
existing SAP data. It has been assigned to the Co Code 1100
Ledger 1 & LL and Fiscal Year Variant K4.

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27. Activate Migration Plan manually

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting General Ledger(New) Æ


Preparation for Productive Start Æ Migration of existing SAP dataÆActivate
Migration Plan manually

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In the above the screen we have Activate Migration Plan Z12


which will be used to Migrate existing SAP data.

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28. Execute Migration Cockpit

Menu Path

Financial Accounting (New) Æ Financial Accounting General Ledger(New) Æ


Preparation for Productive Start Æ Migration of existing SAP dataÆExecute
Migration Cockpit

In the above screen choose the second Radio button if you want
to Migrate with Document Splitting of the open item or else
select the First Radio button if you want to Migrate open item &
carry forward balances without Document Splitting.

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