Migration from Classic General Ledger to New General Ledger

New Functionality in the New General Ledger

  • Segment Reporting

Segment reporting is a legal requirement in many countries. US GAAP, and IFRS require a segment to be reported if the total external revenue of the segment exceed 10% of the total revenue. They also require to report income statement and balance sheet to be reported by segment. The big change in Segment reporting is that there is now a separate filed in the Profit Center master record.

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FI Quick Reference Cards

These quick reference cards are created by a university for the following transactions

FICO Key Terminology Grid
General User Menus
FBV2 Document List Search
GR55 UK Available Budget
FMRP_RFFMEP1AX
General User Reports
FB02 Change A Posted

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Budget Reports Using ZFM01

This transaction will be used to provide your basic reporting requirements for monitoring your budget such as displaying your total budget, actual expenditures, open commitments, and budget balance available for your selected funds center(s). In addition, it will be used to drill down into the line item details of all postings to the selected fund center. It can also provide a report to detail the sources of your budget balance.

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Budget Control System(BCS) Training Manual

On November 24, 2008, the SAP Finance system will be migrated from the former budgeting module to the Budget Control System (BCS) module. The transactions that you are currently using within SAP-FI to monitor your budget will be changing. Budget transfers will no longer be parked using FR69. Instead, you will be using the Budgeting Workbench (FMBB) to pre-post your budget transfers.

Similarly, the SAP-FI on-line budget reports will also be changing. Please note that you will continue to use ZBUDSTAT_CF or ZBUDSTAT_EX_CF to view your budgets and transactions for fiscal year 2008 and prior. However, any transactions processed for fiscal year 2009 and after will need to be viewed using transaction ZFM02 or ZFM02_EXP. This training manual is being provided to assist you in monitoring your budget using the BCS module.

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What is Controlling?

The Controlling module (CO) in SAP R/3 deals with the responsibility aspect of financial accounting. No actual postings are made in Controlling, instead all transaction information flows to Controlling through the other modules of SAP R/3.
The Controlling module provides the most flexible business income and expenses reporting.Get more details from the material.

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10 Consulting Notes for CO-PA Analysts

This note gives an overview of the informational notes for CO-PA. The purpose of these notes is to give you further advice on various topics in CO-PA which have turned out to be difficult to understand from a user’s point of view. Notes compiled:

  • Free of Charge Deliveries – Costs in CO-PA
  • Characteristics from SD transaction Tables to CO-PA
  • SD Partner functions in CO-PA
  • Product Hierarchies in CO-PA Reports
  • + / – Signs in CO-PA and Conditions with plus/minus signs
  • SD Condition Types to CO-PA Value Fields
  • Valuation with Condition Technique in CO-PA
  • Characteristics from Variant Configuration
  • Costs for Third-party Processing
  • More than 120 value fields

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