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.

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

TableDescriptionComments
SKA1G/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.
SKATG/L Account Master Record (Chart of Accounts: Description)
SKB1G/L account master (company code)Field XSPEB GL Account Blocked for Posting. In Logical Database BRF GLU3 SDF.


Transactional Data

TableDescriptionComments
BKPFAccounting Document HeaderIn Logical Database BMM BRF BRM DDF KDF SDF.
BSASAccounting: Secondary Index for G/L Accounts (Cleared Items)
BSEGAccounting Document SegmentIn Logical Database BMM BRF BRM DDF KDF SDF.
BSETTax Data Document SegmentIn Logical Database BRF BRM.
BSIMSecondary Index, Documents for Material
BSISAccounting: Secondary Index for G/L AccountsFor open items migration G/L Accounts. In Logical Database SDF.
GLT0G/L account master record transaction figuresIn Logical Database GLG.
VBKPFDocument Header for Document Parking
VBSEGSDocument Segment for Document Parking - G/L Account Database


Additional tables for Transactional Data in New General Ledger

TableDescriptionComments
BSEG_ADDEntry View of Accounting Document for Additional LedgersWhen the document is not relevant for the leading ledger.
FAGLFLEXAGeneral Ledger: Items
FAGLFLEXPGeneral Ledger: Plan Line Items
FAGLFLEXTGeneral Ledger: Totals


New Finance tables in S/4 for Transactional Data

TableDescriptionComments
ACDOCAUniversal Journal Entry Line Items
ACDOCCConsolidation Journal
ACDOCPPlan Data Line Items


Taxes

TableDescriptionComments
T007ATax Keys
T007BTax Processing in Accounting
T007STax Code Names
T007VTax Codes to be Transported
T030KTax Accounts Determination
T059AType of Recipient For Vendors
T059BWithholding Tax Classes for Vendors: Names
T059CTypes of Recipient: Vendors per Withholding Tax Type
T059EIncome Types
T059FFormulas for Calculating Withholding Tax
T059GIncome Types: Names
T059KWithholding tax code and processing key
T059PWithholding tax types
T059ZWithholding tax code (enhanced functions)


Periodic tables

TableDescriptionComments
T001BPermitted Posting Periods


Enterprise Structure Part of the Customizing

TableDescriptionComments
FAGL_SEGMMaster Data for Segments
FM01Financial Management Areas
T001Company Codes
T004Directory of Charts of Accounts
T014Credit control areas
T880Global Company Data (for KONS Ledger)
T881Ledger Master
TFKBFunctional areas
TGSBBusiness Areas
TGSBKConsolidation business areas
TKA02Controlling area assignmentAssigment Company Code to Controlling area.


Customizing

TableDescriptionComments
NRIVNumber Range IntervalsEdit with transaction SNUM. Object=RF_Beleg for FI-documents.
T003Document Types
T077SG/L account groups
T077ZAccount Group Names (Table T077S)