Difference between ECC and S4HANA

Chart of account master in S/4 Hana Finance

In S/4 Hana Finance chart of account master has been changed.

COA T. CODE: OB13

In chart of accounts Integration for controlling tab have to be assigned in ecc but in s4hana
it is automatically integrated.
In ECC

IN S4HANA

Open and closing posting period T.code: OB52

An additional column appears in Transaction OB52 (opening and closing periods) for
postings from Controlling to Finance, (although you still need OKP1 at Controlling Area level
for change actual period lock).

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GL MASTER: T.code:FS00
With S4 Finance, the GL Master Data and Cost Element Master Data have merged

GL Account Type

There are now 4 options in Account Type. Previously, Account Type was either Balance
Sheet or Profit & Loss type. Profit & Loss Type is now split to below:

• Non-Operating Expense or Income

• Primary Costs or Revenue
• Secondary Costs

Selecting the option will influence the screen layout under Controlling Area (of cost element).

Retained Earnings for P&L

The option to select a Retained Earning Account only shows up when We have more than
one P&L Statement Account Type in the configuration. If there is only one type, this field is
hidden,

Merging Cost Element Master Data with GL Master Data

Cost Element definition is part of GL Master Data maintenance.

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 • Fields Cost Element Category, Record Quantity, Unit of Measure are now part of
“Control Data” tab on the GL Master Data in Company Code view
• Transaction to create, change, display cost element now point to create, change,
display of GL Account
• The other fields in cost element Master Data have been dropped. For e.g. default
account assignment, joint venture fields, functional area
• There are 2 new tables SKCSKA (Mass Maintenance: Cost Elements) and
SKCSKB that replicate Cost Element tables CSKA (Cost Elements (Data Dependent
on Chart of Accounts)) and CSKB (Cost Elements (Data Dependent on Controlling
Area)) respectively
• The Transaction codes (KA*) to create/ change/ display cost elements now route to
create/ change/ display GL Account

Time-dependant attributes to GL Master Data

There is a new feature in the GL Account Master Data maintenance called “Time Dependant
attributes”. Here we can maintain:

• Time Dependant Description: If we want to change the description (Short Text and
Long Text) and keep a trial of previous descriptions with the date of change, make
the change in this tab instead of changing the description on the “Type/Description”
tab of the GL Account Master Data
• Old G/L Account Number: This is useful if you want to keep a trial of old G/L
• Accounts that this GL Accounts relate to. These could be old GL Accounts from
legacy systems or old GL Account before SLO activities. The old G/L Account field is
a free text field.
• Reports read the current descriptions; they do not read the time-dependant fields

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Clearing specific to Ledger Groups

In the “Control Data” tab there is a new indicator for “Clearing specific to Ledger Groups”. If
you select this indicator, the account is managed on an open-item basis.

• Clearing can be performed within the same ledger group.

• There is a new transaction F.13L (G/L Accounts – specific to Ledger Groups) that will
allow you to clear open items in these individual accounts within specific Ledger
Groups.
• Items posted to the Leading Ledger are cleared in the Leading Ledger (Automatic
Clearing – Transaction F.13 or F.13E; **Manual Clearing – FB1SL; Repost with
Clearing FB05L).

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Finance General

1. Totals and application index tables were removed (exist as views) and theses are
replaced by the Universal journal ACDOCA table.

In S/4 HANA – ACDOCA table

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SAP controlling (CO) is now part of the universal journal. It creates only one document in
FI. During FI posting document carries both FI and CO information with single source of
truth.

Egg: Following shows the MM- MIGO financial document.

In ECC

In S/4 HANA (In S/4 HANA material ledger activation is a mandatory requirement, therefore
material ledger document get generate for each material related transaction.)

1. Currencies
In ECC In S/4 HANA

There used to be up to 3 parallel currency configuration depends on

currencies in FI, T-code: OB22 the universal journal ledgers, there
is a common place to define ledger
2 parallel currencies in CO. T- and currency. T-code:
code: OKKP FINSC_LEDGER

The currencies of non-leading

ledgers in New GL, were a subset

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 of the currencies in the leading
ledger.
One of the CO currencies needed
to be the local currency, but it was
not necessary that the other
currency in CO was also
configured in FI.
CO currency setting in ECC
With the universal journal and the
common line item table ACDOCA
for FI and CO, there is also a
central currency configuration for
the universal journal.
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In S/4 HANA

Other than parallel ledger can have appendix ledgers. Appendix ledger for delta postings.

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 1. What is Business partner?

A Business Partner. can be a person, organization, group of people, or a group of

organizations, in which a company has a business interest. It is the single point of entry to
create, edit, and display the master data for business partners, customers and vendors. A
Business Partner consists of general data like name, address, bank information, etc. as well
as role specific information i.e. customer/vendor/employee data.

2. Why Business Partner?

Data Redundancy: A person can be a Vendor as well as customer, in traditional ERP we

have to create two objects. With business partner single object is only required.
Multiple Transactions: To create vendor or customer we have to go to different
transactions. With Business Partner single transaction “BP” is required both objects.
Centrally managing master data for business partners, customers, and vendors.

3. Customer and Vendor Integration to Business Partner:

• Customer
• Vendor
• Business partner

In Traditional ERP, we have Customer and Vendor as different object.

For Customer, we have following views:

• General
• Finance
• Sales

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For Vendor, we have following views:

• General
• Finance
• Purchasing

For creating there objects we need different Transaction code:

Customer: XD01, FD01, VD01

Vendor: XK01, FK01,MK01

In S4 HANA both customer and vendor get created with Transaction BP.

FI-AR

1. Credit Management now with FSCM, Other than creating the credit controlling area,
need to define credit segments and assign it to BP role.

In ECC – FD32

In S/4 HANA

Configuration: FSCM a Credit Management a Master Data a Create Credit Segments

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Transaction: BP – Role UKM000. Define Credit limit information.

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FI-AA

1. Actual data of ANEK, ANEP, ANEA, ANLP, ANLC is now stored in table ACDOCA.
ANEK data is stored in BKPF.

2. Execute mandatory application configuration steps related to Asset Accounting. IMG ->
Asset Accounting New à Migration: Asset Accounting New à Adjust parameters of chart of
depreciation

Once configured the chart of depreciation, Adjustment of parameter of the chart of

depreciation need to be executed.

3. Asset Accounting Parallel Valuation

Important part of new Asset accounting is parallel valuation in multicurrency environment.

The leading valuation can be recorded in any depreciation area. The system now posts both
the actual values of the leading valuation and the values of parallel valuation in real time.

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New Asset Accounting makes it possible to post in real time in all valuations (that is, for all
accounting principles).

In ECC

In S/4 HANA

4. Define Technical Clearing Account for Integrated Asset acquisition

For an integrated asset acquisition posting, the system divides the business transaction into
an operational part and a valuating part. To split the business process in an operational and
a valuating document parts there need to be established the “technical clearing account” for
integrated asset acquisition.

Operational Entry

For the operational part (vendor invoice), the system posts a document valid for all
accounting principles against the technical clearing account for integrated asset
acquisitions. (ledger-group-independent document)

Dr Technical clearing

CR Vendor

Valued Entry

For each valuating part (asset posting with capitalization of the asset), the system generates
a separate document that is valid only for the given accounting principle. This document is
also posted against the technical clearing account for integrated asset acquisitions.

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(ledger-group-specific documents for each accounting principle)

DR Asset

CR Technical clearing

In S/4 HANA

Asset acquisition posting

5. Simplified depreciation run (AFAB)

Accounting principle specific posting is possible using new depreciation run.

In ECC

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In S/4 HANA

Settlement rules can also be ledger specific if required

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6. Statistical postings– instead of statistical cost elements with cost category 90 there is now
a special field in the GL account master record is there only in fixed asset and material
reconciliation accounts to record this in controlling area. (Record account assignment.)

In ECC

In S/4 HANA

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7. Asset cut over migration:

In S/4 HANA, Asset transaction data is posted through ABLDT, it updates Assets Accounting
and General Ledger Accounting at the same time; due to this, no reconciliation issues occur.

In S/4 HANA

Step 1: Upload only Master Data using the transaction code AS91.

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Step 2: Upload Asset Historical Values, Accumulated Depreciation and Depreciation for the
year using the transaction code ABLDT. In doing this universal journal entry is posting to the
fixed asset.

Step 3: Upload current year acquisitions using the transaction code AB01.

BAPI: BAPI_FIXEDASSET_OVRTAKE_CREATE, can be used for data upload.

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In ECC

In ECC transaction data was getting posted separately in Assets Accounting through:

a. AS91

b. General Ledger Accounting through OASV/FB01.

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8. Planned depreciation values will get updated in real time as on when there is a change in
the asset master data. No need of executing plan depreciation separately.

9. There is no separate balance carry forward needed in asset accounting, the general
ledger balance carry forward transaction FAGLGVTR transfers asset accounting balances.

The program Fixed Assets-Fiscal Year Change transaction AJRW is no longer has to be
performed at fiscal year change.

In ECC

In S/4 HANA

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FI- BL

1. Fiori App use for Bank configuration

The following transaction codes are replaced by the new Fiori app Create House Bank,
Manage Banks, which can be accessed from the Fiori Launchpad.

• Create Bank: FI01

• Change Bank: FI02
• Display Bank: FI03

Now can maintain banks hierarchies based on bank business partners, overdraft limits,
signatories and approvals flow and additional reporting such as the foreign bank account
report.

Bank accounts can download and uploaded through Excel in different SAP clients
(Development to Production).

In ECC

FI –> Bank Accounting –> Bank account –> Define House bank

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In S/4 HANA

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Data Migration Technology

In S/4 HANA for cut over data migration and for other data migrations, SAP has introduced a
new functionality. That is LTMC, (web dynpro) SAP S/4 HANA Migration cockpit for data
uploads.

The use of LSMW for data load to SAP S/4HANA is not recommended, hence an SAP
Migration cockpit can be used for migrations. But still you can use LSMW based on your
preference.

It provides predefined Microsoft Excel templates which can be downloaded, filled with data,
and uploaded to SAP S/4HANA.

Before starting, web service needs to be activated through the T-code SICF.

Refer SAP Note 2481235 for more details.

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User Interface

Fiori Launch Pad with Fiori Apps for most of the standard T-codes.

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I wrote this blog post to share my knowledge with you. So, if I have missed anything
interesting or important, feel free to add those in the comment box. Hope this will help all the
finance and non-finance SAP consultant to get an idea on the new features in S/4 HANA.

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