Activation of New General Ledger

A small action, a big change! The benefits of the New General Ledger is explained in a separated post. Now we indicate how to activate it. New General ledger is activated following the path in customizing:

SPRO-> SAP Customizing Implementation Guide->Financial Accounting>Financial Accouting Global Settings->Activate New General Ledger Accounting

The activation will modify paths in customizing, changing the menu to “Financial Accounting (New)” and “General Ledger Accounting (New)”.

Company Code is Productive

With SAP transaction OBY6 we set Company Code global data.

In particular there is a checkbox called “Company Code is Productive”. If you mark the checkbox, the Transactional Data or Master Data can not be deleted from the system.

Usually the flag is marked in production environment but not in development or integration environment because it could be useful for test purposes delete the data created during a test phase in order to have the system clean of data for the starting of following test phase.

Additionally to SAP transaction OBY6, the checkbox could be reached in customizing (SPRO) following the path:

or the path:

Validation of Accounting Document

SAP transaction for creating validations in FI Module is OB28. Also there is a global transaction GGB0 where the developer can create validations in others SAP modules, included FI.

With the new Financial Acounting (New), there are several paths to reach the transaction from Customizing (SPRO transaction), for example:

One validation can be built by a large number of steps (up to 999) and each step is described by following statements:

Prerequisite: Determines when the value entered should be checked.

Check: Determines when the value entered is valid. Is True the transaction continue, else a message is displayed.

Message: Determine the message to be shown if the check is false.