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I nt r oduc t i on t o
Gener al Ledger
i n mySAP ERP
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SAP AG 2004
Cust omer Requi r ement s and SAPs Sol ut i on
Segment
reporting
Legal
reporting
Management
reporting
Compliance
Transparency
Fast close
Extensibility
Parallel
accounting
TCO reduction
GL in
mySAP ERP
Balanced books
for any dimension
SAP AG 3
Today our customers need to implement a whole set of SAP components in order to fulfill international
or industry specific standards. They face limitations in management, statutory and tax reporting, e.g.
segment reporting.
Right now, the situation is getting worse, especially since service industry solutions require more and
more balance sheets for segments like fund and grant (Public Sector), balance sheet by title (Media) or
balance sheet by branch (Insurance). Moreover, the increasing importance of IAS puts more pressure on
the quality of our segment reporting.
Having to set up and maintain multiple technical components in order to achieve these standard tasks,
unnecessarily increases the TCO for our customers and also slows down their processes due to the
reconciliation of redundant information storage. This has an immediate effect on Fast Close.
Furthermore, a unified solution is easier to handle with respect to Sarbanes-Oxley.
Some Customers who have recently approached us with their problems in this area include Siemens,
Kimberley Clark, City of Phoenix.
The described shortcomings have been a major setback for trying to acquire customers, especially in the
US and with regards to the SMB market.
Our recommendation is to catch up to the shift in expectations in terms of industries, TCO and changing
international standards, by investing in our core FI functionality. A recent prototype has shown the feasibility
at relatively low costs.
SAP AG 2004
mySAP ERP: A Unified World Today: A Scattered World
Pr of i t Cent er Ledger
Management and
segment reporting
Spec i al Ledger
Multi-dimensional,
customer-defined
I ndust r y-spec i f i c
Ledger s
B/S by grant, fund, title
CoGS
Ledger
Cl assi c GL
Legal
requirements
Compar i son of GL i n R/3 Ent er pr i se and mySAP ERP
General Ledger in R/3 Enterprise General Ledger in mySAP ERP
Gener al Ledger suppor t s
Legal requirements
Mgmt. and Segment reporting
Extensibility by industries
Extensibility by customers
Balanced books for any dimension
Parallel sets of books
Fast close
TCO reduction
Intl. accounting standards
Compliance & transparency
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Customer Requirements
General Ledger in mySAP ERP
Integration with other Components
Functional Scope
Summary
Agenda

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Cons.
Preparation
EC-PCA
GL in
mySAP
ERP
Online Split:
Balanced Book
for any dimension
FI-SL CO-OM
CO-PA
Profit Center
Determination
CoGS Ledger
Currency
Translation
Zero balance Derivation
Accounting Interface
Persistency layer
GL i n mySAP ERP The uni f i ed appr oac h
Reconc.
Ledger
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Gener al Ledger i n mySAP ERP Ar c hi t ec t ur e
Legal, Segment and Management Reporting
. . .
General Ledger in mySAP ERP
Company Segment Partner Co Ledger Func. Area Partner Seg
Accounting Interface
Logistics / HR Financial Supply Chain Acctng Subledgers
SAP Consolidation
(Consolidated)
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The Segment is offered as a new organizational unit, but is technically treated as any other account
assignment field. Profit Centers are now integrated into new GL.
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Gener al Ledger i n mySAP ERP St andar d St r uc t ur e
General
Ledger
Org Units
Company
Segment
Profit center
Partner company
Partner segment
Partner profit center
Account +
Subaccnts
Account
Transaction type
Functional area
Partner Funct.
area
Value in TC
Value in LC
Value in GC
Industry
Templates
+ Grant
+ Fund
+ Title
+
Customer
Extension
+
+
However, General Ledger is no substitute for a Business Warehouse!
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Bal anc ed Book s f or any Di mensi on Ent r y Vi ew
Entry: Expenses for two profit centers
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Bal anc ed Book s f or any Di mensi on GL Vi ew
Payables and taxes are split online, accordingly.
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Par al l el i sm i n Gener al Ledger i n mySAP ERP
Parallel Accounting
Any number of parallel ledgers
Same UI for all ledgers (data entry, functions, reporting)
Almost the same functionality for all ledgers
Online posting to multiple ledgers
Postings per specific ledger
Closing activities can be run in parallel ledgers simultaneously
Standard reporting for multiple ledgers
Remark: Using parallel accounts is still supported.
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Par al l el i sm f or Or i gi nal Pr oc esses (mySAP ERP
2004)
Original Process
e.g. invoice receipt, payment,
Document split: Segment, prctr,
RW Interface
Creation of one accounting document for
all parallel views
Parallelism only possible with regards to
period sorting and selection of criteria
Ledger 0A Ledger 0L
New G/L
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Closing preparations such as valuating programs can be run for different ledgers ending up in different
valuation results. Nevertheless they can be run simultaneously.
Manual entries can be performed influencing specific ledgers.
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Par al l el i sm f or Subsequent Pr oc esses (mySAP ERP 2004)
Subsequent process
e.g. according to IAS
e.g. allocation, foreign currency
valuation, balance carry-over
Subsequent process
e.g. acc. to local GAAP
e.g. allocation, foreign currency
valuation, balance carry-over
Ledger 0A Ledger 0L
Creation of parallel accounting
documents for every valuation
Real parallelism with regards
to valuation, period sorting and
selection of characteristics
New G/L