Migration to New G/L

First thing that comes into your mind is why you need this. 

Seriously, if you're already using the system for quite a while, why to activate new features you're not sure if they migh suit you or not.

That's the question.

Parallel accounting, that's fine. If you were using FI-SL for this, that's fine, you were using parallel accounts- that's also OK.

From my experience, there's one thing I can memorize, when I was so very in need of parallel accounts, and it is one thing only- tax depreciation of fixed assets. From that point, running actual depreciation for assets for depreciation area different from 01, on real G/L accounts to me ,back then, sounded so very cool :)) Or revaluation of fixed assets.

I've tried to dig deeply into the issue. Not that much I know so far about the migration itself, but this is, at least, something. 

First of all check for SAP note 812919 on migration issue. It gives you some hints, also provides you with quite useful links on SAP sources.

There's that migration tool, Migration cockpit which is used to transfer the data from classic Accounting to New General Ledger Accounting and, where necessary, to implement the new functions (such as document splitting) in General Ledger Accounting. This Migration cockpit tool includes some initial standard templates, so if you want to be aware of the consequence of steps you're going to deal with, while implementing your desired scenario (there are 7 scenarios so far, by the way), then you might take a look what cockpit's offering.

Migration to the New G/L has to be considered as a separate project, which is ,on average, 6-8 months length. Why for so long I am wondering, and what is the scaling of 6 months migration project (how many company codes, what functionalities involved, what features are being activated and things like that).

3 phases of the project, 8 possible scenarios, 8 months length implementation... what else should be mentioned. 2 training courses available, one is for New G/L itself and another one for migration. I guess, latter is pretty new one.. 

It says that just a regular consultant is not capable of implementing migration, so there's that special migration service team in SAP you have to deal with while doing this thing.

Scenarios...

From 1-8, they are ranged by the complexity, i.e. features included in each scenario. Say for instance, only parallel accounting, no document splitting... or parallel accounting + document splitting... or everything mentioned before, and Controlling stuff and etc. Scenarios 6-8 for customers already working with new G/L, they have just decided to add some more feautures in it.

It is way too risky... So even if you're doing it yourself, with no SAP migration people involved, think twice. I personally, if there's that super urgent need in using new G/L, I would just do the copy of my current system, with new G/L stuff activated in it, and would start from there, without ruining anything.

Spring is in the air

1Q84..

Q stands for question. Actually, there are lots of unanswered questions left after you're done with the reading. Quite ambiguous, 1000+ pages trilogy btw)) My humble opinion is that the author could have squeeze everything ,he wanted to tell to his loyal readers, in one single book. The whole trilogy is way too static. Yeah, may be God is in the details, but there shouldn't be that sort of exaggeration. Too much of attention you're paying to clothes Aomame wears, of what Tengo thinks again and again when he memorizes his mother's breasts... And all these descriptional stuff on breasts theme. What's the whole idea of emphasizing on this kind of, some ,and I myself, may find disgusting deviations? They were way too much in 'Kafka...', and now once again, main character psychologically 'deceased' with Oedipus complex...You see the dynamics only by the end of the third book, that's why there are so many questions left. Dowager, Tamaru, Little people, for God's sake, what happened to all of them? Knocking on the doors, NHK fee collector's story read from the newspaper... What happened to the idea of causal connection? 

 Murakami often appeals to Chekhov's famous line about the 'gun hanging on the wall'... But what about his own gun?

 Oh, need to admit that almost extreme level of sophistication of 1Q84's characters. Physically strong, god like human beings, able to transcend themselves into the parallel worlds, which in fact, were created within their own imagination, intelligent, having good taste of books, of music... Tolstoy's quote about happiness ...initial idea of it was so very different.

 But those are details))

 I think the book itself is a bit over rated. I do remember, first release of the book in English, while I was living in Italy. Bookstores full of huge ads screaming 'yay, finally the book has been released, BUY it!'. Over- rated. Collective unconscious. 

 So main disappointment is that I didn't find central idea of these good 3 books. You know, when you read the book, you see the movie, there MUST be that central point, that gives answers on unanswered questions, that clarifies doubts, that makes you cry, makes you laugh, shortly touches you, so that after reading it, even if you're forgetting names, forgetting sequences of acts, you do remember that small little thing, that tiny central take away that stays with you. 

Aomame and Tengo were living in their own separate worlds for way too long, so their unification by the end of the book has that unnatural, fake taste. As if they were supposed to unite by the end, no matter what, and they did, no matter what.

ps: everyone is such a critic these days :))) But seriously, I do love Murakami, and I do have a feeling that I myself prefer early Murakami, the one before 'The Underground'.   

SAP Closing Cockpit w example

First ,do all the customizations related to your closing matters (CLOCOC t-code): 

• Create task template (do it by copying one of the standard templates, don’t complicate things:)). So go to menu Template/Task List- Other template/task list:

Save as (do the assignment to organization structure, it can be both CoCd and Controlling area, or each of them separately):

Check for ‘Change value’ option for each of the org structure in your template:

Same goes with CoCd values.

• Now let’s create folder that will include tasks we need to implement during the period- end closing (assume, we’re working with monthly closing routine. I am going to plan depreciation posting run for current period).

So create variant for t-code AFABN:

Variant has to be created for background processing only due to requirements of that particular program:

Assign deprecation run task to newly created folder in your template:

To set the precise date and timing for depreciation run, use Monitor function on the control panel (toggle between monitor and list display):

So we’re getting following parameters for our task run:

Length of the task run and all that is adjustable by using ‘Change task’ function:

Un-tick all the non-relevant assignments to closing type btw (we’re working with month- end closing).

• Now, based on this template we need to create our actual task list. Go to main menu in CLOCOC, then ‘Create task list’ option:

Key date is going to be –today.

Closing type- M (i.e. montly).

Posting period and year- February, 2014.

And release the task list by changing status of it:

Now your task list is ready- ready.

• Next go to CLOCO t-code, which is actually Closing Cockpit, check if your task list has been created. Schedule it. And that’s it.

That’s about it.

After our task has been implemented successfully, you can check for output of implemented task:

Double click on spool column:

Check for the log:

As it was already mentioned, you can also add your own developments into the task list. In order to do so work with the following t-codes: SCMATRANSACT and SCMAPROGRAMS ,for transactions and programs respectively. 

Kazakhstan add-on, FI-AA, Transport tax report

There are couple of tables/views you need to work with before you run the report:

(1) Define transport type in J_3RTTYPVEH. After you activated all the country specific tax fields, you can see this field in ‘Country specific’ tab of master data of asset.
(2) Regions and districts in J_3RFPTREGION (master data is assigned in ‘Country specific’ tab as well);
(3) OKATO codes in J_3RFOKATOT.
(4) Assigning of regions and districts to respective OKATO codes in J_3RFOKATOREG.While configuring property tax prerequisites you should have filled OKATO directory
(5) Next you need to define tax rates and stuff like this.

Most important thing is that in table FIKZD_TTAXR you have to do the assignments of everything mentioned above to actual fixed asset, created in system. I mean, it is weird, cause you actually did all the assignments in AS01 or AS02 t-codes, but here you need to duplicate all the assignments once again. So before you run the report, don’t forget to fill this table.

And that’s about it. There are 2 options of running the report:

- Half a year

- Yearly declaration

You can store extracted report in database and so on and so forth.