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Real-Time Integration of Controlling With Financial Accounting - General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New) - SAP Library
Real-Time Integration of Controlling With Financial Accounting - General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New) - SAP Library
RealTimeIntegrationofControllingwithFinancialAccountingGeneralLedgerAccounting(FIGL)(New)SAPLibrary
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RealTimeIntegrationofControllingwith
FinancialAccounting
DuringallocationsinControlling,mostofthepostingscreateddonotaffectFinancialAccounting.These
postingsdonotupdateanyG/LaccounttransactionfigurestheyarepostingswithinControlling.If,
however,anallocationinControllingleadstoachangeinthefunctionalareaoranyothercharacteristic
(suchasProfitCenterorSegment)thatisrelevantforevaluationsinFinancialAccounting,ashift
occursbetweentheaffecteditemsintheprofitandlossstatement.Forthisreason,thisinformationhas
tobetransferredtoFinancialAccounting.ThisreconciliationbetweenControllingandFinancial
Accountingtakesplacebymeansofrealtimeintegration.
Asaresultofrealtimeintegration,allControllingdocumentsthatarerelevantforGeneralLedger
AccountingaretransferredfromControllingtoGeneralLedgerAccountinginrealtime.Thismeansthat
FinancialAccountingisalwaysreconciledwithControlling.
AdocumentiscreatedinFinancialAccountingforeachpostinginControlling.Thismeansthatthe
detailedinformationcontainedintheCOdocumentsisalwaysavailableinreportsinNewGeneralLedger
Accounting.Thisinformationcanbesortedbythefollowing,forexample:
Functionalarea
Costcenter
Internalorder
Integration
Realtimeintegrationreplacesthereconciliationpostingsfromthereconciliationledger.Consequently,
youdonotneedareconciliationledger.
If,however,youdonotsetthe ReconciliationLedgerActive indicatorinCustomizingforthecontrolling
area,youcannotusethereportsbelongingtoreportgroups5A*(5AA15AW1).Yousetthisindicatorin
CustomizingforControllingunder GeneralControlling Organization MaintainControllingArea .
Thereconciliationledgerservesasthedatasourceforreportsbelongingtothereportgroups5A*.You
findthesereportsinthe SAPEasyAccess menuunder Accounting Controlling CostElement
Accounting InformationSystem ReportsforCostandRevenueElementAccounting .
Replacementreportsareavailableasfollows:
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RealTimeIntegrationofControllingwithFinancialAccountingGeneralLedgerAccounting(FIGL)(New)SAPLibrary
Prerequisites
Ifyouuserealtimeintegrationinatleastonecompanycode,youneedtohaveactivatedcompanycode
validationfortherelatedcontrollingarea.YoudothisinCustomizingfor Controlling under General
Controlling Organization MaintainControllingArea ActivateComponents/ControlIndicators .
Otherwise,thereconciliationbetweenFinancialAccountingandControllingatcompanycodelevelisnot
possible.
InCustomizingfor FinancialAccounting(New) ,youhaveprocessedtheCustomizingactivitiesunder
FinancialAccountingGlobalSettings(New) Ledgers RealTimeIntegrationofControllingwith
FinancialAccounting .
Recommendation
ActivaterealtimeintegrationforallcompanycodesbetweenwhichyouwanttomakeCOinternal
allocations.
IntheCustomizingactivity DefineVariantsforRealTimeIntegration ,donotincludeallCOline
itemsinthetransfer.Ifthesamelineitemsaretobetransferredasthroughthereconciliationposting
fromthereconciliationledger,selectthefollowinglineitems:
CrossCompanyCode
CrossBusinessArea
CrossFunctionalArea
CrossFund (ifyouuse PublicSectorManagement )
CrossGrant (ifyouuse PublicSectorManagement )
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Features
ValueflowswithinControllingthatarerelevantforGeneralLedgerAccountingsuchasassessments,
distributions,confirmations,andCOinternalsettlementsaretransferredimmediately.TheFI
documentsarepostedwiththeCOFI businessTransaction .TheycontainthenumberoftheCO
document.ThismeansthatyoucancalluptheCOdocumentfromtheFIdocument,andviceversa.
Activities
IfadocumentcouldnotbetransferredbecausethepostingperiodwasblockedinFinancialAccounting
ornoaccountwasfound,forexample,thedocumentisincludedinapostprocessingworklist.Youneed
tocheckthisworklistregularlyandprocessanydocumentsinit.Fromthe SAPEasyAccess menu,
choose Accounting FinancialAccounting GeneralLedger Corrections PostCODocuments
toFI .
Example
Aninternalorderforbusinessarea0001issettledtoacostcenterofbusinessarea0002.Thedocument
fromthisallocationistransferredinrealtimetoFinancialAccounting.
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