NEW GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTING 2

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Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function FIN_GL_CI_2
Type of Business Function Enterprise business function
Available As Of SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage Central Applications
Application Component FI-GL (New)
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation New General Ledger Accounting (FIN_GL_CI_1)
in Addition

You use the New General Ledger Accounting 2 business function to improve your processes for parallel accounting in the component
FI-GL (New) and to ensure the integration with Controlling.
The following functions are provided:
Assignment Monitor for Profit Centers
Wizards for Customizing Document Splitting
Enhanced standard configuration of document splitting
Navigation from FI Reports to CO Reports
Validation of Account Assignment Combinations
Document display specific to ledger groups
Closing/Opening Postings for the Leading Ledger (Country-Specific)
Separate check on posting period for postings from CO to FI
Check Posting Period for Non-Representative Ledgers

Integration
The enhanced standard configuration of document splitting also forms part of the following business functions: PSM, Cash Flow
Reporting (PSM_FA_CASH) as well as PSM, Funds Management 2 (PSM_FM_CI_2).

Prerequisites
You have installed the following component from the version specified:
Type of Component Component Is Needed Only for the Following
Features
Software Component SAP_APPL 6.04

For you to be able to use the business function, the following criteria must be met:
You have set up the General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New) application component. In this way, new General Ledger Accounting
is active.
You have activated the New General Ledger Accounting business function.
You have activated this business function, New General Ledger Accounting 2.
For information about activating the individual functions in Customizing, see the Release Note FIN_GL_CI_2: New General Ledger
Accounting 2.

Features

New General Ledger Accounting and Profit Center Accounting

Assignment Monitor for Profit Centers
The assignment monitor for profit centers enables you to easily locate missing or incorrect assignments of objects to profit centers. This
function also supports you in performing closing correctly at the profit center level.
Now you can also check the assignment to profit centers for the following objects:
Sales order items and
Real estate objects for Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX)
For more information, see Assignment Monitor for Profit Centers in the SAP Library.
Wizards for Customizing Document Splitting
The wizards provide a new and user-friendly way of accessing the Customizing settings for document splitting. The following wizards are
available:
Wizard for Configuring Document Splitting
Wizard for Creating a Document Splitting Rule
Both wizards contain step-by-step instructions that enable you to make the Customizing settings and to check those settings. With the
wizard for creating a document splitting rule, you can also simulate documents on the basis of existing documents.
Enhanced Standard Configuration of Document Splitting
Using these standard settings for document splitting considerably simplifies configuring some of the business processes, such as those
for nonassigned payments. Configuration of these processes in document splitting is now restricted principally to assigning the default
account assignment values of the predefined constant and to assigning the new document splitting rule to the relevant document type.
Navigation from FI Reports to CO Reports
This function enables you to improve the integration of Financial Accounting (FI) with Controlling (CO) for reporting, to reduce the effort
required for reconciliation, and to make the origin of values more transparent. From within the profit center reports and segment reports
in new General Ledger Accounting, you can use the report-report interface to call up various summary reports from Controlling. The
profit center and the origin object type (such as cost center or internal order) are the points of connection between the sender report in

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 new General Ledger Accounting and the receiver report in Controlling. In other words, the receiver reports are derived from the selected
origin object type of the sender report. You can use either predefined standard reports or your own reports and transactions as receiver
reports.
For more information, see Navigation from FI Reports to CO Reports.
Validation of Account Assignment Combinations
This function prevents postings with invalid account assignment combinations from being posted and thereby ensures the consistency
of your reporting. You can define your own validation rules and use them to check whether different account assignment combinations
are useful from a business point of view and, where necessary, prevent invalid postings. You can also extend the check to include an
account assignment combination of G/L accounts and cost centers and prevent postings with this account assignment combination. The
system only checks documents that are in the process of being posted; it does not check parked documents. During postings, you can
display the account assignments to be checked and determine the result. In Customizing, you can assign a validation strategy with
validation rules to an entire company code as the default strategy. You can define exceptions for specific ledger groups. You can use
the validation log to analyze validation rules.
For more information, see the SAP Library under Validation of Account Assignment Combinations.

Parallel Ledgers
Document Display Specific to Ledger Groups
The selection criterion for the ledger group has been added to the logical database BRF (Business Rule Framework, the document
database). You can therefore make selections by ledger group or by ledger in all reports that use the logical database BRF to select
data.
The following reports have been adapted so that they now contain the ledger group as a selection criterion:
Compact Document Journal (RFBELJ00)
Compact Document Journal [not accessible] (RFBELJ00_NACC)
Document List (RFBUEB00)
Furthermore, you can also add the ledger group as a selection criterion to your own reports that are based on the logical database
BRF.
Closing/Opening Postings for the Leading Ledger (Country-Specific)
You can make year-end closing entries and opening entries for specific ledgers, including for the leading ledger. For this, you use the
program Closing/Opening Postings at Year End. This program is intended mainly for the following countries: Italy, Slovakia, Turkey,
Portugal, Romania, and Columbia.

Local Close
Separate Check on Posting Period for Postings from CO to FI
This function enables closing operations in Controlling and Financial Accounting to be performed more smoothly. Previously, the FI
period had to remain open during closing operations at period end all the while postings from Controlling were being transferred to
Financial Accounting. Now, you can continue to post CO transactions in the preceding period even if this period has been closed for FI
postings. For this, you can use the additional period interval in the Customizing settings for the posting periods; this period interval is only
relevant for postings from Controlling to Financial Accounting. It is valid for postings created with the real-time integration as well as for
postings created using the CO-FI reconciliation ledger during closing operations.
For more information, see the SAP Library under Opening and Closing Posting Periods.
Check Posting Period for Non-Representative Ledgers
This function reduces the effort required for coordination between the different accounting principles during closing operations.
Previously, when a posting was made to different ledgers, the period check was only performed for the representative ledger. This
meant that posting periods in non-representative ledgers were not considered. You can now specify that the posting period check is
also performed for non-representative ledgers. In this way, postings can still be made in non-representative ledgers even after the
posting period in the representative ledger has been closed. Furthermore, you can specify a different fiscal year variant for non-
representative ledgers.
For more information, see the SAP Library under G/L Account Posting.

More Information
For a detailed list of the new and changed functions, see the central release note FIN_GL_CI_2: New General Ledger Accounting 2
and the detailed release notes.
For detailed documentation on the individual functions of new General Ledger Accounting, see the SAP Library under SAP ERP
Central Component Accounting Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New).
From SAP ECC 6.0, enhancement package 4, you can transfer document splitting information that already exists in Special Purpose
Ledger (FI-SL) to new General Ledger Accounting. This migration function is only available as part of the SAP General Ledger
Migration Service in the Migration Cockpit. This does not require the New General Ledger Accounting 2 business function to be
activated. For more information, see SAP Note 1163997.

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