Configuration Steps for the New GL in ECC 5.

Activate the New GL

To use the functions in the new General Ledger Accounting, it must be activated by
following this path:

Activate then Save. An information message results that summarizes what has been
triggered by this action:

In this IMG activity, you activate new General Ledger Accounting. In this way, you
achieve the following:

 The functions for new General Ledger Accounting are made available to you.

 In the SAP Reference IMG, the previous Financial Accounting menu is replaced
by the Financial Accounting (New) menu.

Under Financial Accounting Basic Settings (New) and General Ledger (New), you can
make the settings for new General Ledger Accounting.

 You activate the tables of new General Ledger Accounting so that your posting
data is written to them.

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Standard settings

When you activate new General Ledger Accounting, not only are the tables of new
General Ledger Accounting updated in the standard system, but also the balances in the
tables of classic General Ledger Accounting (table GLT0). This default setting is there to
enable you to use comparison reports during the implementation phase of new General
Ledger Accounting to ensure that new General Ledger Accounting delivers correct
results.

Exiting the IMG and re-entering reveals the new IMG structure:

On the application side, new transactions have been inserted into the SAP Easy menu, for
example:

The new GL has much tighter integration with Profit Center Accounting (PCA) master
data. This is reflected in two ways after activation.

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First, PCA master data maintenance can now be accessed from within the FI-GL menu:

Second, activation has triggered the creation of a new field in the Profit Center master
record: the Segment.

Before Activation After Activation

Define Segments

The accounting principles related to US GAAP and IAS require companies to perform
segment reporting. As seen above, values for segments are maintained in the master
record of profit centers.

Activation of the new GL has created a new IMG path: Enterprise Structure ®
Definition ® Financial Accounting ® Define Segment.

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Click on New Entries and add the required segments to be used for segment reporting –

Save your entries.

It will now be possible to assign Profit Centers to segments:

Note: With the addition of this new functionality, it will also be necessary to review the
field status settings of Balance Sheet accounts to ensure the appropriate fields are
available for entry.

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In the new IMG, these settings can be found at:

Financial Accounting (New) ® Financial Accounting Basic Settings (New) ® Ledgers

® Fields ® Define Field Status Variants

As an example, for field status group G001, the default settings are:

In our example, we wish to prepare Balance Sheets at both the segment and profit center
level. While both of these fields will be made available for entry for Balance Sheet
accounts, note that it is not possible in FI to post to a Segment alone – only in
combination with a profit center. Therefore, it is the profit center field that must not be
suppressed for balance sheet accounts so that the segment can be derived during FI
postings.
No nosso exemplo, queremos preparar Balanços segmento, tanto
a nível central e de lucro. Embora ambos os campos serão
disponibilizados para a entrada de contas patrimoniais, nota
que não é possível em FI para postar um Segmento sozinho -
apenas em combinação com um lucro centro. Portanto, é o
lucro centro campo que não deve ser suprimida para balanço
de contas de modo que o segmento pode ser obtido durante FI
postagens.

All field status groups will need to be reviewed in light of this new functionality.
Todos os grupos campo estatuto terá de ser revista à luz
desta nova funcionalidade.

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Define Customer Fields for Ledgers (optional)

It is possible to extend the SAP-delivered coding block to include new fields. These
fields become account assignment objects that can be reported against in the new GL.
For example, should there be a requirement to report on a second dimension in segment
reporting (e.g. geographic) this would be supported by the creation of a customer field
(e.g. Region).
É possível estender o SAP-bloco entregue codificação para
incluir novos campos. Estes campos se tornam conta cessão
objetos que podem ser relatados no novo contra GL. Por
exemplo, deve haver um requisito de um segundo relatório
sobre a dimensão do segmento relatórios (por exemplo,
geográfico), este seria suportado pela criação de um cliente
campo (por exemplo, Região).

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The requisite settings can be found here in the IMG:

Com esta transação pode incluir um novo campo no bloco de classif

contábil. Assim são expandidas tabelas centrais de Dictionary e s
efetuadas entradas em tabelas válidas para todos os mandantes. AS
modificações efetuadas são válidas em todos os mandantes do siste

Antes de executar uma execução efetiva para a nova inclusão de um

ou efetuar as modificações respectivas no Dictionary, é necessári
gravar os dados. Durante a execução efetiva nenhum outro usuário
trabalhar no sistema; não podem ser executadas neste momento nenh
transações de lançamento.

A supressão de um novo campo incluído a partir do bloco de classi

contábil só é possível com grande esforço e está relacionada com
de dados.

Antes de utilizar esta transação é imprescindível ler o capítulo

respectivo no Guia de implementação.

Note – it is not possible to extend the coding block without becoming a registered
developer in OSS. An access key is required to make changes in this area. As such,
some of the tables will be shown, but no updates have been made.
Nota - não é possível alargar a codificação bloco sem se
tornar um desenvolvedor registrado no OSS. O acesso à chave
é necessária para fazer as alterações nesta área. Como tal,
alguns dos quadros serão exibidos, mas não há atualizações
foram feitas.

When editing the coding block:

OXK1

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Click on Add Fields.

Development Class - must be in the customer name space

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Field Name - must begin with YY or ZZ
Field Label - as it will appear to users in the application e.g. Region
Data Type - can be character-based or numeric
Field Length - restricted to 22 characters

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For example:

Executing a test run produces a log highlighting any potential errors and foreshadowing
what updates will occur:

Removing the test run indicator triggers the prompt for the Developer access key.

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Once a customer field has been created, it must be added to the totals table associated
with the new GL via:

SAP delivers totals table FAGLFLEXT to support the new GL. SAP recommends
working with the standard table. However it is possible to create your own table. While
on the above screen follow the path: Extras ® Create Table Group.

‘Define Master Data Check’ would be relevant should there be a need to validate
customer field values in combination with other coding block objects e.g. certain values
for “Region” are valid for one Company Code but not another.

As a final step, once the ledgers have been created for the implementation, assign the new
field to the appropriate ledgers via: Financial Accounting Basic Settings (New) ®
Ledgers ® Ledger ® Assign Scenarios and Customer Fields to Ledgers

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