Document Splitting in New General Ledger

New General Ledger (or new G/L) in the SAP ERP system offers a powerful feature known as document splitting. With document splitting, accounting line items are split according to specific characteristics This way, you can create financial statements for entities such as Segments and meet legal requirements. This document also explains the basics steps of Passive splitting, Active splitting — Rule-based splitting and Splitting using zero balancing with examples. At the end you will see a step by step Document Splitting examples to familiarize with process.

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Variances in Invoice Verification

The system needs to be configured properly with ‘Tolerances’ so that you are not hampered with variances when you try Invoice Verification. You need to define the lower and upper limits for each combination of the Company Code and the tolerance key defined for the various variances. The system then checks these tolerance limits and issues warnings or prevents you from proceeding further when you process an invoice.

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What is a Statistical Key Figure (SKF) in SAP?

The ‘Statistical Key Figure (SKF)’ is used as the basis (tracing factor) for making allocations (assessments/distributions). They are the statistical data such as number of employees, area in square meters, etc. You will make use of a SKF when you are faced with a situation where it is not possible to use any other conventional method or measure to arrive at the share of costs to be allocated to cost centers.

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Overview of Product Costing & Material Ledger in SAP

After reading this document, you will acquire an overview of Product Cost Planning, Cost Object Controlling within SAP. You will also observe a product life cycle from perspective of Product Cost Planning and understand period oriented product cost controlling.

This material also covers Material Ledger that you will get to understand Actual Costing function. You will learn how to revaluate inventories of semi finished products, and finished products with calculated actual costs or accrue variances.

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Management Accounting Integration with Other SAP Applications

Management Accounting contains all the functions necessary for effective cost and revenue controlling. It covers all aspects of management controlling and includes many tools for compiling information for company management. The following are the integration points of Management accounting with other SAP modules;

  • Data created in other mySAP ERP applications can have a direct influence on Management Accounting. For example, if a non-stock item is purchased, an expense is posted to the general ledger. This expense is also posted as costs to a cost center, for example, for which the item was purchased. That cost center’s costs can be passed on later as overhead to a production cost center.

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