====== SAP - S/4HANA Modules - Financials - Financial Accounting ======

SAP Financial Accounting (SAP FI) module is the back bone of SAP accounting as it records financial transactions of all movements of goods, services and all other business transactions between the company and its customers and vendors.

  * SAP FI application represents from an accounting perspective a company general ledger (G/L).
  * SAP FICO (FI & CO) are two separate books of accounting, where the SAP FI is used for external reporting with Balance sheets and Profit & Loss statements and SAP CO (Controlling) for internal reporting purpose.

SAP Financial accounting module components enables to meets all the requirements of financial accounting department of an organization. The important features of FI are:

  * SAP FI records all the business transactions with an unbroken audit trial from financial statements to the individual documents.
  * The postings made in sub ledger accounts always generate a postings in a corresponding G/L account.
  * The data is available in real time, so the financial accounting data can be access through out the organization.
  * All the transactions processed in logistics are posted to financial accounting module through automatic account determination; so ensuring that value of goods and services are exactly reflects in accounting.
  * Prepares an operational information and provide effective decision making within the organization.

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**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.|
|BSEG|Accounting Document Segment|In Logical Database BMM BRF BRM DDF KDF SDF.|
|VBKPF|Document Header for Document Parking| |

\\ **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)| |