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Currently projects will always use the project type „7“, which is the subsequent implementation of an
additional ledger. This might change in future when more subsequent implementation scenarios might
be available.
In the second level of the customizing maintenance you can enter a new target ledger id and name or
you choose an existing ledger. Currently it is allowed to define one target ledger only. In case more
than one ledger are needed than you have to define further projects and run them one after the other.
The third level defines the relevant company codes for the new or existing ledger and the source
ledger, which defines the source of the data for the data transfer. Keep in mind, that you only assign
company codes, which are relevant for the new accounting principle/ledger. In the following steps you
need to maintain depreciation areas for all assigned company codes for the new accounting principle.
Please keep in mind, that you also assign company codes, which have cross-company code postings
with the already assigned company codes. The system supports you by displaying all possible
company codes based on the cross-company code configuration. This does not mean, that all
proposed company codes really have cross-company postings. Therefore please check in your
systems, which company codes belong together due to cross-company code postings.

In asset accounting a company code is always assigned to a chart of depreciation. Please keep in
mind if one company is assigned to the project-ID then all other company codes also being assigned
to this chart of depreciation need to implement the new accounting principle, so they need to be
assigned to the project-ID as well. If you do not want to implement the new accounting principle for all
those company codes then you first have to assign them to a new chart of depreciation. Please
contact SAP to be able to „split the chart of depreciation“ .

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This configuration handles the following scenarios:
• Maintain a new ledger and assign the relevant company codes to it
• Assign new company codes to an existing ledger

In case of the maintenance of a new ledger you choose the project from the selection table and click
on the button „Maintain Target Ledger Settings“ above the table. The ledger ID and description is
transfered from the project configuration and defaulted already. Check the company code settings for
the ledger. You can only change the Posting Period Variant. The Fiscal Year definition and currencies
need to be the same as in the leading ledger. Only changes in the sequence of the currencies are
possible. New freely defined currencies can not be assigned to the new ledger.
Save the settings! If you leave this customizing without saving the ledger is NOT created! All
displayed values for the new ledger are defaults only and do not exist as long as you save them. After
saving the new ledger the project will not be displayed in the entry screen of this IMG activity
anymore.

In case the ledger, which is assigned to the project, already exists, it will not appear in the selection
table to maintain it. In that case click on „Display Ledger Customizing“. You can display the ledger
settings and can assign the relevant company codes to the existing ledger according to the project
definition.

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Note: In the new ledger, no postings to the year before the year of data transfer are allowed.
Therefore, it is not possible to run revenue recognition for the last period of the previous year.
Revenue recognition runs for the first period of the new year and posts adjustments based on the
rules of the applicable accounting principle.

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Prerequisites for the accounting principle representing the valuation to be newly implemented:
• The new accounting principle need to be set up in the system
• The new accounting principle need to be assigned to the new Ledger Group
• The new accounting principle need to be assigned to the (new) Ledger/company code

Enhance existing chart of depreciation:

• Target deprecation area need to be set up in the same way as the source depreciation area.
Only the following indicators need to be changed:
• depreciation area (AFABER)
• Name/description of depreciation area
• Accounting pinciple
• “Alternative Depreciation Area for Account Determination” (for areas posting to GL): You need
to make sure that the same GL accounts are used for posting in the target depreciation area
as in the source depreciation area.
• source depreciation area has no entry: in the target depreciation area the “Alternative
Depreciation Area for Account Determination” need to be the source depreciation area.
• source depreciation area has an entry: “in the target depreciation area the Alternative
Depreciation Area for Account Determination” need to be the same entry as in the source
depreciation area.
• In case „Cross-System Depreciation Area“ are used you need to assign them also in your
target depreciation area.

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• For all depreciation areas (“Area posts in Real Time”) that are assigned to the source accounting
principle, you must assign a newly created depreciation area (target depreciation area); this has
to have the same parameters as the source depreciation area (for posting to the general ledger,
value maintenance, and so on).
• Source and target depreciation area must represent the same purpose for valuating the fixed
assets. They differ however in the assigned accounting principle.
• For statistical depreciation areas in your source accounting principle applies: you cannot assign
target depreciation areas for these and therefore you can not fill those areas with data.
• In general you can assign only one target depreciation area to a source depreciation area of a
chart of depreciation.
• For depreciation areas representing Investment Support posted to Liabilities (as well as
Revaluation) applies:
• You have to assign to each source depreciation area a (separate) target depreciation area
• In case you have several depreciation areas portraying different investment measures in your
source accounting principle you can assign (combine) them to one depreciation area
(investment support) in your target accounting principle. Prerequisite is that in your source the
depreciation areas (investment support) and the investment measures are set up exactly in
the same way.
• In case you are not using the investment depreciation areas any more (there is neither a
balance carry forward nor any values in the actual year) then you do not need to set up any
investment depreciation areas in your target accounting principle.
• For depreciation areas representing Transferred Reserves in your source accounting principle
you do not have to create and assign depreciation areas in your target accounting principle.

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Make sure that the set up for depreciation areas assigned to the target accounting principle is the
same as for depreciation areas assigned the source accounting principle.
• Have you permitted the definition of fiscal year variants different to General Ledger Accounting?
• Does the fiscal year variant in the target depreciation areas match those of the source
depreciation areas?
• If you use transferred reserves in the source depreciation area: Have you also allowed these for
the target depreciation area?
• Do the source depreciation areas and the target depreciation areas for investment support have
the same Customizing settings?
• Do the source depreciation areas and the target depreciation areas for revaluations/devaluations
have the same Customizing settings?
• Create a new capitalization version for the newly created depreciation area and assign this to the
depreciation area.

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Exception:
• For depreciation areas representing Investment Support posted to Liabilities (as well as
Revaluation) applies:
• You have to assign to each source depreciation area a (separate) target depreciation area
• In case you have several depreciation areas portraying different investment measures in your
source accounting principle you can assign (combine) them to one depreciation area
(investment support) in your target accounting principle. One of the prerequisite is that the
depreciation areas (investment support) and investment measures in the source are set up
exactly in the same way. The depreciation area in your target also has to be set up in the
same way as those areas in your source.
• In case you are not using the investment depreciation areas any more (there is neither a
balance carry forward nor any values in the actual year) then you do not need to set up any
investment depreciation areas in your target accounting principle. The system issues a
warning.
• For depreciation areas representing Transferred Reserves your source accounting principle you
do not have to create and assign depreciation areas in your target accounting principle. The
system issues a warning.

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HINT: Sender system of emails needs to be known by the email server!

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Period 012/2015 is not yet closed for company code DEMO
Message No. FINS_FI_SIF027
Diagnosis
Period 012/2015 is still open for company code DEMO. Postings are still possible in this period.
Prior to data transfer, the last period of the previous fiscal year must be closed for all company codes
that are assigned to the project.
Procedure
Check and set the period status for company code DEMO accordingly using transaction Open and
Close Posting Periods.
For testing purposes, you can also modify the message type of this message using transaction
Message Control by User.
The application area of this message is 'FINS_FI_SIF'.
If the message type is 'I' (Info), 'W' (Warning) or 'S' (Success), you will be able to set the project status
to Preparations Completed.
It is not recommended to change the message type in productive systems.

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Prerequisite before data transfer can be performed:
• Previous year need to be closed. It is not allowed to re-open a previous year as soon as data is
transferred. A certified closing of the previous years should be available.
• Recommendation: the initial depreciation run should be performed for actual year. Use
transaction Calculation of Depreciation (AFAR).
(In case changes have been made in customizing which are relevant for calculating depreciation
then the actual calculated depreciation (which is store in the database and will be posted) may
not be correct.)
• Post depreciation for the source accounting principle for all periods from the start of the year up
to the go live date. Use transaction Post Depreciation (AFAB).
This is necessary so that you can compare the data of the source accounting principle against
the data of the target accounting principle after successfully transferring the data.

Steps within the Cockpit:

• Data of source accounting principle will be transferred to the target accounting principle.
• The initial depreciation run will be performed for actual year for the target accounting principle.

Further steps:
• Post depreciation for the target accounting principle for all periods from the start of the year up to
the go live date. Use transaction Post Depreciation (AFAB).
This is necessary so that you can compare the data of the source accounting principle against
the data of the target accounting principle after successfully transferring the data.

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The posting of the depreciation is a relevant step at the end of the preparation phase as well as the
execution phase. In the preparation phase you need to make sure that the depreciation is posted in
the source accounting principle. In the execution phase you need to make sure that the depreciation
is posted in the target accounting principle.
We recommend to post the depreciation in both accounting principles up to the system date.
Otherwise you cannot make sure that the posted depreciation is the same in the source and the
target accounting principle. So you may not be able to reconcile the data in the source and in the
target accounting principle (e.g. via asset history sheet, balance sheet). This is a prerequisite to be
able to complete the project.

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• The posting of the depreciation is a relevant step at the end of the preparation phase as well as
the execution phase. In the preparation phase you need to make sure that the depreciation is
posted in the source accounting principle. In the execution phase you need to make sure that
the depreciation is posted in the target accounting principle.
We recommend to post the depreciation in both accounting principles up to the system date.
Otherwise you cannot make sure that the posted depreciation is the same in the source and the
target accounting principle. So you may not be able to reconcile the data in the source and in the
target accounting principle (e.g. via asset history sheet, balance sheet). This is a prerequisite to
be able to complete the project.

• Report FAA_SIL_CHECK_NEW_LEDGER (Consistency Checks after Creating a New Ledger) is

not yet included in the cockpit. It reconciles asset master data and data of the source accounting
principle with the target accounting principle from an asset point of view.

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All account values, open items and documents are transferred without changing their values. This has
the advantage, that you can easily reconcile and compare the transferred data between source and
target ledger.
Nevertheless you need to adjust some of the values according to the new accounting principle.
Adjusting values of documents posted during the current fiscal year can be done using normal posting
transactions.
Adjustments to the opening balances can not be posted using normal posting transactions. To allow
adjustements to opening balances a special transactions in the layout of the traditional transaction
FB01 is offered. With that transaction postings to period 0 are possible. Although the transaction looks
like a FB01 it acts differently in regards to psoting date and period, to currency conversion. Not all
accounts are allowed to be posted with this transaction. It doesn‘t make sense to post to profit and
loss accounts, to open items managed accounts and to reconciliation accounts.
In case you have collected all adjustment postings in a file you could use the traditional batch input to
post these values in a more automated way.

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All account values, open items and documents are transferred without changing their values. This has
the advantage, that you can easily reconcile and compare the transferred data between source and
target ledger.
Nevertheless you need to adjust some of the values according to the new accounting principle.
Adjusting values of documents posted during the current fiscal year can be done using normal posting
transactions.
Adjustments to the opening balances can not be posted using normal posting transactions. To allow
adjustements to opening balances a special transactions in the layout of the traditional transaction
FB01 is offered. With that transaction postings to period 0 are possible. Although the transaction looks
like a FB01 it acts differently in regards to psoting date and period, to currency conversion. Not all
accounts are allowed to be posted with this transaction. It doesn‘t make sense to post to profit and
loss accounts, to open items managed accounts and to reconciliation accounts.
In case you have collected all adjustment postings in a file you could use the traditional batch input to
post these values in a more automated way.

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