Flexible General Ledger (FI-GL)
Purpose
The Flexible General Ledger is a type of data storage. The account assignment objects of the
Flexible General Ledger are saved in various applications as master data, such as cost center in
Cost Center Accounting and profit center in Profit Center Accounting.
The business processes are transacted in the individual applications, and the data is transferred
to the Flexible General Ledger. If the cost center is posted in Cost Center Accounting, the data is
transferred to the Flexible General Ledger by means of the accounting interface. The Flexible
General Ledger runs parallel to the previous general ledger.
You can include the following dimensions in the Flexible General Ledger
- SAP dimensions (such as profit center, cost center, functional area)
- Customer-defined fields (such as region)
These dimensions are then available for planning and reporting use.
Unlike the Special Purpose Ledger, you only need to make minimal changes to the configuration in order to activate the Flexible General Ledger. You can make year-end closings based on period accounting as well as cost of sales accounting.
Features
The Flexible General Ledger contains the following functions.
- The general ledger can be expanded to include SAP fields (such as profit center, cost center) or your own customer fields.
- You can carry out allocations (assessment and distribution) as in the application component Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL).
- You can carry out as summarization of data (rollup) for reporting as in the application component Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL).
- You can carry out multidimensional planning (that is, you can use various account assignments/dimensions for planning).
- You can carry out multidimensional reporting (that is, you can use various dimensions for balance lists and financial statements).
- You can use all dimensions of the Flexible General Ledger (business area, profit center, cost center, and so on) as characteristics for the breakdown in the financial statements.
- The cost of sales accounting ledger 0F has been replaced by the Flexible General Ledger. The Flexible General Ledger contains the “functional area” dimension in the
standard system
Flexible General Ledger (FI-GL) ........................................................................7
Flexible General Ledger Structure............................................................................................... 9
G/L Documents........................................................................................................................... 11
Allocation .................................................................................................................................... 13
Allocation .................................................................................................................................... 14
Allocation Types....................................................................................................................... 16
Allocation Rules ....................................................................................................................... 19
Sender Rules ...................................................................................................................... 20
Receiver Rules.................................................................................................................... 22
Allocation Cycle........................................................................................................................ 26
Allocation Segment ............................................................................................................. 28
Selection Criteria...................................................................................................................... 32
Rules for Selection Criteria ................................................................................................. 33
Dimensions in Allocation.......................................................................................................... 35
Tips for Optimizing System Runtime........................................................................................ 39
Overview: Carrying out the Allocation...................................................................................... 40
Creating Allocation Cycles.................................................................................................. 42
Creating Header Data for an Allocation Cycle............................................................... 44
Cumulative Processing of Allocation Cycles ................................................................. 46
Iterative Processing of Allocation Cycles....................................................................... 48
Creating a Segment for an Allocation Cycle.................................................................. 50
Creating Sender Values for a Segment.................................................................... 53
Creating a Receiver Tracing Factor for a Segment.................................................. 55
Scaling of Negative Tracing Factors ................................................................... 57
Defining Receiver Weighting Factors ....................................................................... 59
Allocating Plan and Actual Values............................................................................ 60
Locking Segments in an Allocation Cycle ................................................................ 61
Copying Segments ................................................................................................... 62
Displaying Allocation Cycles............................................................................................... 63
Changing Allocation Cycles ................................................................................................ 65
Deleting Allocation Cycles .................................................................................................. 67
Executing Allocation Cycles................................................................................................ 68
Executing an Allocation Cycle Online............................................................................ 70
Defining an Allocation Job for Background Processing................................................. 72
Settings for Execution of Cycles.................................................................................... 73
Reversing Allocation Cycles ............................................................................................... 75
Deleting Allocation Line Items ............................................................................................ 76
Displaying Allocation Results ................................................................................................... 77
Displaying Cycle Overviews................................................................................................ 79
Displaying Standard Settings.............................................................................................. 80
Displaying Messages .......................................................................................................... 81
Displaying Line Items.......................................................................................................... 83
Displaying Segment Lists.................................................................................................... 84
Displaying Sender Lists ...................................................................................................... 85
Displaying Receiver Lists.................................................................................................... 86
Displaying Journals............................................................................................................. 87
Technical Statistics, Expert Trace, and Divergence Analysis............................................. 88
Displaying Previous Processing.......................................................................................... 90
Printing Detail Lists .................................................................................................................. 91
Rollup .......................................................................................................................................... 92
Rollup .......................................................................................................................................... 93
Sets and Rollups ...................................................................................................................... 96
Field Movements and Rollups.................................................................................................. 99
Line Item Database and Rollups............................................................................................ 102
Types of Rollups .................................................................................................................... 103
Special Periods and Rollups .................................................................................................. 104
User Exits and Rollups........................................................................................................... 105
Using FI-SL on Distributed Systems ...................................................................................... 106
Carrying out Drill Downs on Rollup Line Items ...................................................................... 108
Defining Rollups ..................................................................................................................... 111
Overview: Executing Rollups ................................................................................................. 112
Creating Rollups..................................................................................................................... 114
Creating Rollup Headers for Standard Rollups................................................................. 115
Creating Rollup Headers for Hierarchical Rollups ............................................................ 119
Creating Rollup Headers for Export Rollups..................................................................... 123
Creating a Rollup Sequence............................................................................................. 125
Creating Field Movement.................................................................................................. 127
Entering Substitution Activity Information ......................................................................... 129
Checking Rollups ................................................................................................................... 132
Documenting Rollups ............................................................................................................. 133
Displaying Rollups.................................................................................................................. 134
Defining a Rollup for Background Processing ....................................................................... 135
Reversing a Rollup................................................................................................................. 136
Executing Rollups .................................................................................................................. 138
Exporting/Importing Rollup Data ............................................................................................ 141
Deleting Rollups ..................................................................................................................... 142
Changing Rollups................................................................................................................... 143
Planning .................................................................................................................................... 144
Planning .................................................................................................................................... 145
Master Data and Planning...................................................................................................... 147
Setting Up Planning ............................................................................................................... 148
Planning Layout ................................................................................................................ 149
Planner Profile .................................................................................................................. 150
Creating Plan Data................................................................................................................. 152
Creating Plan Data............................................................................................................ 153
Planning Functions ........................................................................................................... 155
Reload Data................................................................................................................. 156
Clear Row, Undo, Redo............................................................................................... 157
Cut ............................................................................................................................... 158
Copy............................................................................................................................ 160
Paste........................................................................................................................... 162
Change Values ............................................................................................................ 164
Line Item Display ......................................................................................................... 165
Long Text..................................................................................................................... 166
Goal Seek Function ..................................................................................................... 167
Insert ............................................................................................................................ 169
Format to Print ............................................................................................................. 170
Number Format............................................................................................................ 171
Lead Columns.............................................................................................................. 172
Header Display On/Off................................................................................................. 174
All Key Values On/Off .................................................................................................. 175
Distribution Key................................................................................................................. 176
Standard Distribution Keys .......................................................................................... 178
Examples of Standard Distribution Keys ................................................................ 180
Defining a Distribution Key .......................................................................................... 183
Excel Integration in Planning ............................................................................................ 184
Planning with Excel Integration ................................................................................... 186
Planning Locally with Excel Upload............................................................................. 188
Functions for Editing Excel Templates ........................................................................ 191
Working with the Planning Tool.............................................................................................. 193
Transferring CO Plan Data..................................................................................................... 195
Using a Plan Template........................................................................................................... 197
Displaying Totals Records ..................................................................................................... 198
Displaying Plan Documents ................................................................................................... 200
Reporting................................................................................................................................... 201
Displaying Account Balances.................................................................................................. 202
Defining Drilldown Reports...................................................................................................... 203
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