Introduction General

Ledger in mySAP ERP

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Customer Requirements and SAPs Solution
Segment
reporting
Legal
reporting
Management
reporting
Compliance
Transparency
Fast close
Extensibility
Parallel
accounting
TCO reduction
GL in
mySAP ERP
Balanced books
for any dimension
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mySAP ERP: A Unified World Today: A Scattered World
Profit Center Ledger
Management and
segment reporting
Special Ledger
Multi-dimensional,
customer-defined
Industry-specific
Ledgers
B/S by grant, fund, title
CoGS
Ledger
Classic GL
Legal
requirements
Comparison of GL in R/3 Enterprise and mySAP ERP
General Ledger in R/3 Enterprise General Ledger in mySAP ERP
General Ledger supports
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 in mySAP ERP The unified approach
Reconc.
Ledger
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General Ledger in mySAP ERP Architecture
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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General Ledger in mySAP ERP Standard Structure
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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Balanced Books for any Dimension Entry View
Entry: Expenses for two profit centers
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Balanced Books for any Dimension GL View
Payables and taxes are split online, accordingly.
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Parallelism in General Ledger in 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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Parallelism for Original Processes (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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Parallelism for Subsequent Processes (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