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.

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)