SAP - S/4HANA Modules - Financials - General Ledger
The central task of G/L accounting is to provide a comprehensive picture of external accounting and accounts.
- Recording all business transactions (primary postings as well as settlements from internal accounting) in a software system that is fully integrated with all the other operational areas of a company ensures that the accounting data is always complete and accurate.
- Beyond fulfilling the legal requirements, General Ledger Accounting also fulfills other requirements for modern accounting:
Parallel Accounting
General Ledger Accounting allows you to perform parallel accounting by managing several parallel ledgers for different accounting principles.
Integration of Legal and Management Reporting
In General Ledger Accounting, you can perform internal management reporting in parallel with legal reporting. For this purpose, the Profit Center Accounting functions are integrated with General Ledger Accounting. Furthermore, you can generate financial statements for any dimension (such as profit center).
Segment Reporting
General Ledger Accounting supports the segment reports required by the accounting principles IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). For this purpose, General Ledger Accounting contains the Segment dimension.
Cost of Sales Accounting
You can perform cost of sales accounting in General Ledger Accounting. For this purpose, General Ledger Accounting contains the Functional Area dimension.
Masterdata
| Table | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| SKA1 | G/L Account Master (Chart of Accounts) | Field XSPEB GL Account Blocked for Posting. S/4: New Field “Type of a General Ledger Account” (GLACCOUNT_TYPE) for Cost Element Definition. In Logical Database BRF GLU3 SDF. |
| SKAT | G/L Account Master Record (Chart of Accounts: Description) | |
| SKB1 | G/L account master (company code) | Field XSPEB GL Account Blocked for Posting. In Logical Database BRF GLU3 SDF. |
Transactional Data
| Table | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| BKPF | Accounting Document Header | In Logical Database BMM BRF BRM DDF KDF SDF. |
| BSAS | Accounting: Secondary Index for G/L Accounts (Cleared Items) | |
| BSEG | Accounting Document Segment | In Logical Database BMM BRF BRM DDF KDF SDF. |
| BSET | Tax Data Document Segment | In Logical Database BRF BRM. |
| BSIM | Secondary Index, Documents for Material | |
| BSIS | Accounting: Secondary Index for G/L Accounts | For open items migration G/L Accounts. In Logical Database SDF. |
| GLT0 | G/L account master record transaction figures | In Logical Database GLG. |
| VBKPF | Document Header for Document Parking | |
| VBSEGS | Document Segment for Document Parking - G/L Account Database |
Additional tables for Transactional Data in New General Ledger
| Table | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| BSEG_ADD | Entry View of Accounting Document for Additional Ledgers | When the document is not relevant for the leading ledger. |
| FAGLFLEXA | General Ledger: Items | |
| FAGLFLEXP | General Ledger: Plan Line Items | |
| FAGLFLEXT | General Ledger: Totals |
New Finance tables in S/4 for Transactional Data
| Table | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| ACDOCA | Universal Journal Entry Line Items | |
| ACDOCC | Consolidation Journal | |
| ACDOCP | Plan Data Line Items |
Taxes
| Table | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| T007A | Tax Keys | |
| T007B | Tax Processing in Accounting | |
| T007S | Tax Code Names | |
| T007V | Tax Codes to be Transported | |
| T030K | Tax Accounts Determination | |
| T059A | Type of Recipient For Vendors | |
| T059B | Withholding Tax Classes for Vendors: Names | |
| T059C | Types of Recipient: Vendors per Withholding Tax Type | |
| T059E | Income Types | |
| T059F | Formulas for Calculating Withholding Tax | |
| T059G | Income Types: Names | |
| T059K | Withholding tax code and processing key | |
| T059P | Withholding tax types | |
| T059Z | Withholding tax code (enhanced functions) |
Periodic tables
| Table | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| T001B | Permitted Posting Periods |
Enterprise Structure Part of the Customizing
| Table | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| FAGL_SEGM | Master Data for Segments | |
| FM01 | Financial Management Areas | |
| T001 | Company Codes | |
| T004 | Directory of Charts of Accounts | |
| T014 | Credit control areas | |
| T880 | Global Company Data (for KONS Ledger) | |
| T881 | Ledger Master | |
| TFKB | Functional areas | |
| TGSB | Business Areas | |
| TGSBK | Consolidation business areas | |
| TKA02 | Controlling area assignment | Assigment Company Code to Controlling area. |
Customizing
| Table | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| NRIV | Number Range Intervals | Edit with transaction SNUM. Object=RF_Beleg for FI-documents. |
| T003 | Document Types | |
| T077S | G/L account groups | |
| T077Z | Account Group Names (Table T077S) |