ECC - EHP8

What is segment:

Segment can represent the business line or line of business or location.

Profit center represent the product line.

New GL Accounting

1) Introduction of segment.
2) In ECC the parallel reporting is done by leading and non-leading ledger .
Earlier Parallel Ledger is defined with special purpose ledger or through GL approach now.
3) Document splitting :

A cumbersome month end process is performed in the month end to get financial statement on
the basis of business area & profit center.

Due to introduction of document splitting on real time basis since ECC , business can get reports
immediately with any month end .

Business Area, Profit center , Segment and Z character. .

4) New Tables are introduced: FAGLFLEXA ( Line item table), FAGLFLEXT ( Total Table).
5) Report Painter reports for financial statement as per business requirement can be draft on the
tables FAGLFLEXA & FAGLFLEXT. (GR55) .
6) Coding block : Business can creates it own Z character and document splitting and reports can
be drawn on that Z character.

Document Splitting :

Active : at the time invoice.

Passive : At the time of payment or clearing

Zero balancing : When balance is not zero at profit center.

Document splitting : Document splitting is activated at client level and deactivated at company code
level.
The Splitting method : 0000000012 is a standard method which governed all the document splitting rule.

Define document splitting character.

Note : Business transaction and transaction variant is assigned to document type to call the splitting
rule.

Item category to be edited (Splitting GL Line AR/AP)

Base item category (Splitting category base for splitting)

Assign GL to tem category for document splitting.

Example of active document splitting .
Example of passive :

F-28 ( Paymnet received from customer)

GL VIEW
ZERO BALANCING:
Report to view balance on PC.
Paralell Accounting :

Business requirement, Company need to report for period Jan – DEC for US reporting.
Define and activate non-leading ledger
Define document type and number ranges for GL VIEW