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1.universal Journal in SAP S4HANA
1.universal Journal in SAP S4HANA
The Universal Journal has made business life much easier for users
It allows fast decisions based on financial and management accounting picture
The Universal Journal combines Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) into one pool.
This single source of truth collects all accounting-relevant transactions and makes them available
to all relevant application components
The reports in all components use data from the same journal and thus known as Universal
journal.
For this functionality to work there is a change in master data, architecture of the tables and also
in configuration.
A big advantage of this universal journal is that reconciliation efforts are enforced by design.
Adding to the advantage, reporting based on the ACDOCA data is fast and flexible.
Let us see the major changes in these areas
All cost elements (primary and secondary) need to be portrayed as G/L accounts.
Consequently, we no longer need to enter the master data for cost elements separately
We only need to create G/L accounts from now on. You will not find any transactions related
Cost elements.
Below screen-prints between ECC EHP7 for SAP ERP 6.0 and S4HANA
ECC:
S4HANA:
Now, let us see what does the one source truth means in SAP system.
FI document which triggered entries in BSEG, FAGLFLEXA, FAGLFLEXT, COBK, COEJ and
COEP tables (and some more BSIS, etc) in ECC.
Compare it with a posting in S4HANA ON PREMISE 1.0, all the information is recorded in
BKPF (header) and ACDOCA (line items).
Updates are no longer made to these old tables.
You can continue to use reports that use data from these old tables.
This is because compatibility views for a data request from one of these tables read the data from
ACDOCA.
Let us compare the views in these ECC tables with ACDOCA.
FI tables:
For example we see the data in FI Tables
BKPF :
Click on contents
Click on execute
FAGLFLEXA: