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You can define deactivation of the Write Classic General Ledger checkbox in Customizing for
Financial Accounting (New) under Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) → Tools →
Deactivate Update of Classic General Ledger (GLT0).
To learn more about the CLASSIC_BAL_FS10N user parameter, read SAP Note 1155999 and
1168430.
The update of the classic General Ledger Accounting tables should be deactivated after a certain
time, for example, after you run and verify the first end-of-period closing. If you update the
tables of both classic and new General Ledger Accounting, you generate too many unwanted and
redundant data records.
Caution: The Customizing activity should always be executed as part of an implementation or
migration project.
Hint: If an auditor, for example, needs to review the classic tables (GLT0), read SAP Note
1158830 and 1339877.
Define ledger comparison in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New) under Financial
Accounting Global Settings (New) → Tools → Compare Ledgers.
In contrast to Controlling (CO), actual data in Financial Accounting (FI) is written to Version 1.
Note: You can also run the GCAC transaction to compare leading and non-leading ledgers.
This figure describes the changes in program RFBILA00 in the new General Ledger Accounting.
Hint: We recommend that you save frequently used programs as variants to save time.
Drilldown reporting contains helpful functions for navigation. It also contains several functions
for interactively processing a report.
Hint: Defining suitable (selection) variants can save you a lot of time when maintaining the
selection screen of drilldown reports.
Note: Drilldown reports enable you to save your selected data. The next time you want to report
exactly the same entities, accounts, or periods, you can choose if you want to select from the
database or to proceed with the saved data. Displaying already saved data is considerably
quicker.
To reorganize the saved reporting data, choose FGIY.
On the selection screen, using the output type, you can choose whether you want to execute the
drilldown report with graphical report output or as a classic drilldown report.
When the selection is the same, the result of both output types is identical.
The flexibility of the program also allows you to drilldown to an individual FI document.
Execute drilldown reporting, navigate to the result you want to display, choose the RRI (ReportReport Interface) button, and choose Line Items. From the line item display, you can drilldown to
the FI document.
Note: Drilling down is not possible in program RFBILA00.
The execution of the FGI0 transaction is possible and displays all defined selection variants.
Drilldown reporting has not been used in FI. It is only being used because of the SAP ERP
application and new General Ledger Accounting.
To display an overview of FI drilldown reports compatible with classic General Ledger
Accounting, execute the FSI0 transaction.
Only the old drilldown reports are displayed after you implement enhancement package 3 or
enhancement package 5 in report type 002 (Reporting for Table FAGLFLEXT). Therefore, you
must first import the new drilldown reports from client 000.
Start the import with the FGI0 transaction and choose Environment → Import reports. Execute
the program with source client 000. In the dialog box, select the report type Reporting for Table
FAGLFLEXT. The system displays the new objects. Select all and execute.
It is beneficial to use the classic drilldown report output type to display the G/L account
balances.
You can navigate to the originally posted, single FI documents.
Caution: The transaction to display the G/L account balance has also been redesigned in SAP
ERP. It is transaction FAGLB03.
The ledger is selected on the drilldown selection screen.
The requirement for making this drilldown report has its origin in classic Profit Center
Accounting (EC-PCA). In EC-PCA, it is possible to use report group 8A99 (Profit Center:
Receivables) and 8A98 (Profit Center: Payables) to structure receivable or payable accounts by
the profit center (once the values have been successfully transferred to EC-PCA).
You can also select a single vendor and drilldown by profit center at any time.
The figure shows the Classic drilldown report output type.
Note: The display of the document numbers is missing the numbers that make up the individual
amounts. You can display them using the Object list output type.
You can also use the Object list output type to process the results from the figure Drilldown
Examples — Payables by G/L Account Assignment.
You can maintain the characteristics that can be selected dynamically in Customizing for
Financial Accounting (New) under General Ledger Accounting (New) → Information System →
Define Balance Display.
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Accounting → Financial Accounting → General Ledger
→ Account → Display Balances (New) (FAGLB03) to start the new general ledger (G/L)
account balance display.
Note: Even if you deactivate the old menu paths with program RFAGL_SWAP_MENU_OLD,
the classic balance display (transaction FS10N) is still available.
However, if you have not assigned the Business Area scenario then, when you start the classic
balance display transaction FS10N, you are automatically redirected to the new transaction
FAGLB03. In this case, the new G/L totals table (FAGLFLEXT) is read.
If you have the Business Area scenario assigned, you can use the classic transaction FS10N to
read the data from the classic totals table GLT0.
The preconditions are as follows:
User parameter CLASSIC_BAL_FS10N is active.
Table GLT0 is still updated.
For more information, read SAP Note 1155999.
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Accounting → Financial Accounting → General Ledger
→ Account → Display/Change Items (New) (FAGLL03) to display G/L account line items.
Caution: This will only display line items for accounts which do not have the Line item display
checkbox selected. However, this does not mean that these accounts will be technically treated
the same as accounts with the Line item display checkbox selected.
FIN_GL_CI_3 is a required business function for new General Ledger Accounting 3.
It is useful for archiving totals records to avoid performance problems with large numbers of
records in the totals table. You can use this new function to read totals records in new General
Ledger Accounting from the archive for reporting purposes.
Before enhancement package 5, reading from the archive was only possible for line item table
FAGLFLEXA, such as transaction FAGLL03 (G/L Account Line Item Display G/L View).
To work with the Origin Object (Type) characteristic, you must first add standard field Origin
Object Type (EC-PCA) (field name ZZHOART) to table FAGLFLEXT and assign the field to at
least one ledger.
The functionality described is possible in enhancement package 3 and later through business
function FIN_GL_CI_1.
In the delivered standard drilldown reports in which you want to evaluate the Origin Object
characteristic, you need to make it available as the characteristic to be selected.
If you want the Select CO Reports for Origin Object program to appear as a possible branch of
the report-report interface (RRI), assign the ABAP program FAGL_RRI_RECON_CO in the
report assignment of the drilldown report. Execute, for example, the FGI0 transaction and change
the drilldown report. On the Options tab page, choose the Report Assignment button.
Caution: The program FAGL_RRI_RECON_CO is only available as of enhancement package 4,
business function FIN_GL_CI_2.
The displayed receiver reports are the associated standard reports for overhead costs orders.
To call the receiver reports for the overhead cost order object (and also for other standard CO
origin objects) from the RRI, upload the receiver reports once.
Upload default entries for the receiver reports in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New)
under General Ledger Accounting (New) → Information System → Drilldown Reports (G/L
Accounts) → Report-Report Interface for CO Reconciliation → Change Report-Report Interface
for Reconciliation with Controlling.
This path is only available in enhancement package 4 as business function FIN_GL_CI_2.
Note: The Origin Object information is not stored for actual processes; you can also work with
the Origin Object characteristic in drilldown reports with plan data.
Financial Accounting (New) under Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) → Tools →
Deactivate Update of Classic General Ledger (GLT0).
To learn more about the CLASSIC_BAL_FS10N user parameter, read SAP Note 1155999 and
1168430.
The update of the classic General Ledger Accounting tables should be deactivated after a certain
time, for example, after you run and verify the first end-of-period closing. If you update the
tables of both classic and new General Ledger Accounting, you generate too many unwanted and
redundant data records.
Caution: The Customizing activity should always be executed as part of an implementation or
migration project.
Hint: If an auditor, for example, needs to review the classic tables (GLT0), read SAP Note
1158830 and 1339877.
Define ledger comparison in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New) under Financial
Accounting Global Settings (New) → Tools → Compare Ledgers.
In contrast to Controlling (CO), actual data in Financial Accounting (FI) is written to Version 1.
Note: You can also run the GCAC transaction to compare leading and non-leading ledgers.
This figure describes the changes in program RFBILA00 in the new General Ledger Accounting.
Hint: We recommend that you save frequently used programs as variants to save time.
Drilldown reporting contains helpful functions for navigation. It also contains several functions
for interactively processing a report.
Hint: Defining suitable (selection) variants can save you a lot of time when maintaining the
selection screen of drilldown reports.
Note: Drilldown reports enable you to save your selected data. The next time you want to report
exactly the same entities, accounts, or periods, you can choose if you want to select from the
database or to proceed with the saved data. Displaying already saved data is considerably
quicker.
To reorganize the saved reporting data, choose FGIY.
On the selection screen, using the output type, you can choose whether you want to execute the
drilldown report with graphical report output or as a classic drilldown report.
When the selection is the same, the result of both output types is identical.
The flexibility of the program also allows you to drilldown to an individual FI document.
Execute drilldown reporting, navigate to the result you want to display, choose the RRI (ReportReport Interface) button, and choose Line Items. From the line item display, you can drilldown to
the FI document.
Note: Drilling down is not possible in program RFBILA00.
The execution of the FGI0 transaction is possible and displays all defined selection variants.
Drilldown reporting has not been used in FI. It is only being used because of the SAP ERP
application and new General Ledger Accounting.
To display an overview of FI drilldown reports compatible with classic General Ledger
Accounting, execute the FSI0 transaction.
Only the old drilldown reports are displayed after you implement enhancement package 3 or
enhancement package 5 in report type 002 (Reporting for Table FAGLFLEXT). Therefore, you
must first import the new drilldown reports from client 000.
Start the import with the FGI0 transaction and choose Environment → Import reports. Execute
the program with source client 000. In the dialog box, select the report type Reporting for Table
FAGLFLEXT. The system displays the new objects. Select all and execute.
It is beneficial to use the classic drilldown report output type to display the G/L account
balances.
You can navigate to the originally posted, single FI documents.
Caution: The transaction to display the G/L account balance has also been redesigned in SAP
ERP. It is transaction FAGLB03.
The ledger is selected on the drilldown selection screen.
The requirement for making this drilldown report has its origin in classic Profit Center
Accounting (EC-PCA). In EC-PCA, it is possible to use report group 8A99 (Profit Center:
Receivables) and 8A98 (Profit Center: Payables) to structure receivable or payable accounts by
the profit center (once the values have been successfully transferred to EC-PCA).
You can also select a single vendor and drilldown by profit center at any time.
The figure shows the Classic drilldown report output type.
Note: The display of the document numbers is missing the numbers that make up the individual
amounts. You can display them using the Object list output type.
You can also use the Object list output type to process the results from the figure Drilldown
Examples — Payables by G/L Account Assignment.
You can maintain the characteristics that can be selected dynamically in Customizing for
Financial Accounting (New) under General Ledger Accounting (New) → Information System →
Define Balance Display.
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Accounting → Financial Accounting → General Ledger
→ Account → Display Balances (New) (FAGLB03) to start the new general ledger (G/L)
account balance display.
Note: Even if you deactivate the old menu paths with program RFAGL_SWAP_MENU_OLD,
the classic balance display (transaction FS10N) is still available.
However, if you have not assigned the Business Area scenario then, when you start the classic
balance display transaction FS10N, you are automatically redirected to the new transaction
FAGLB03. In this case, the new G/L totals table (FAGLFLEXT) is read.
If you have the Business Area scenario assigned, you can use the classic transaction FS10N to
read the data from the classic totals table GLT0.
The preconditions are as follows:
User parameter CLASSIC_BAL_FS10N is active.
Table GLT0 is still updated.
For more information, read SAP Note 1155999.
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Accounting → Financial Accounting → General Ledger
→ Account → Display/Change Items (New) (FAGLL03) to display G/L account line items.
Caution: This will only display line items for accounts which do not have the Line item display
checkbox selected. However, this does not mean that these accounts will be technically treated
the same as accounts with the Line item display checkbox selected.
FIN_GL_CI_3 is a required business function for new General Ledger Accounting 3.
It is useful for archiving totals records to avoid performance problems with large numbers of
records in the totals table. You can use this new function to read totals records in new General
Ledger Accounting from the archive for reporting purposes.
Before enhancement package 5, reading from the archive was only possible for line item table
FAGLFLEXA, such as transaction FAGLL03 (G/L Account Line Item Display G/L View).
To work with the Origin Object (Type) characteristic, you must first add standard field Origin
Object Type (EC-PCA) (field name ZZHOART) to table FAGLFLEXT and assign the field to at
least one ledger.
The functionality described is possible in enhancement package 3 and later through business
function FIN_GL_CI_1.
In the delivered standard drilldown reports in which you want to evaluate the Origin Object
characteristic, you need to make it available as the characteristic to be selected.
If you want the Select CO Reports for Origin Object program to appear as a possible branch of
the report-report interface (RRI), assign the ABAP program FAGL_RRI_RECON_CO in the
report assignment of the drilldown report. Execute, for example, the FGI0 transaction and change
the drilldown report. On the Options tab page, choose the Report Assignment button.
Caution: The program FAGL_RRI_RECON_CO is only available as of enhancement package 4,
business function FIN_GL_CI_2.
The displayed receiver reports are the associated standard reports for overhead costs orders.
To call the receiver reports for the overhead cost order object (and also for other standard CO
origin objects) from the RRI, upload the receiver reports once.
Upload default entries for the receiver reports in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New)
under General Ledger Accounting (New) → Information System → Drilldown Reports (G/L
Accounts) → Report-Report Interface for CO Reconciliation → Change Report-Report Interface
for Reconciliation with Controlling.
This path is only available in enhancement package 4 as business function FIN_GL_CI_2.
Note: The Origin Object information is not stored for actual processes; you can also work with
the Origin Object characteristic in drilldown reports with plan data.
