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IMPACT OF SAP S/4 HANA FINANCE ON ASSET ACCOUNTING

The below are brief points about the impact of SAP S/4 HANA on traditional asset accounting.. Impacts : 1)     SAP S/4 HANA Finance Asset Accounting will be active by activating business function EA-FIN 2)     In SAP S/4 HANA Finance, we can use both the ledger approach and accounts approach. 3)     With the introduction of S/4 HANA Finance, the actual values of AA will be posted to the table ACDOCA and header details will be posted in BKPF as earlier. 4)     Planned depreciation values will get saved in the table “ FAAT_PLAN_VALUES ”. 5)     All statistical items will be posted in the table “ FAAT_DOC_IT ”. 6)     Since the universal table ACDOCA was introduced, a.      The traditional tables such as ANEK, ANEP and ANEA etc tables are now obsolete. b.      Reconciliation is not required since the postings directly happen in FI. c. ...

Impacts of S/4 HANA on General Ledger Accounting and Asset Accounting

The below are the impacts of S/4 HANA on existing system. Even though there are many, I have put my brief understanding. General Ledger Accounting : 1)     Earlier, SAP stored the GL, Customer, Vendor and their open items in various database tables. But now with the introduction of S/4 HANA, there is an only one central table “ ACDOCA ” which updates without storing the same data in multiple tables. Thus, ease of fetching the data into custom reports. a.      ACDOCA will consist of 300+ fields from controlling, material ledger, COPA and asset accounting. b.     In S/4 HANA, there are primarily 2 tables i.e. BKPF (Header Records) and ACDOCA (Line Items). The earlier FAGLFLEXA and FAGLFLEXT are now removed. 2)     Earlier, secondary cost elements will not be created as GL Accounts due to which the secondary cost elements would not be appearing in Financial Statements. With ...