Ledger Scenarios

In this post we will explain the meaning of term "Scenario" in Financial Accounting. In first place, it is important to know that Scenarios are assigned to Ledgers. To have a clear picture about the concept of Scenario this could be a good definition: "A Scenario defines the fields to be transferred from different application components in General Ledger Accounting".

In Customizing, to assign a scenario to a Ledger, we follow this path:

Also in customizing, to display the fields for a scenario, we follow the path:

For using in your particular project, SAP provides several standard scenarios as “Cost Center update”, “Profit Center update”, etc, but it is possible to create customer ones if any of previous ones match your needs.

To finish this post, when we assign a scenario to a Ledger we have to take into account the performance. A great quantity of assigned scenarios could low the system performance.