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Chapter 19 ■ Customizing New General Ledger Accounting
The scenario in a general ledger plays an important role in general ledger accounting. SAP supplies
some basic settings that you can adapt and use. You may not need to define them again. So we have provided
guidelines you may need to consider when customizing scenarios for your general ledger account:
• Once the fields are updated in scenarios they can be used to model certain business
needs, such as segment reporting.
• Although SAP comes with predefined scenarios, you can define your own.
• It is possible to assign a ledger (leading ledger and non-leading ledger) to one or
more scenarios at once.
• You may not need to assign the six scenarios presented by SAP at once to ledgers.
The number of scenarios is based on the business process you want to model in the
G/L account.
• Non-leading ledgers are needed in a business process where you want to have an
accounting disclosure or reporting in accordance with certain accounting principles.
• You may not have to create a non-leading ledger when segment and parallel
accounting is not needed.
Assign Scenarios and Customer Fields to Ledgers for Leading Ledger
In this exercise, you will assign the following objects to ledgers.
• Scenarios
• Customer fields
• Version
SAP comes with standard scenarios and customer fields that are assigned to ledgers in the leading
ledger. So you do not need to customize the leading ledger. However, you can take a look at the scenarios
in leading ledger and delete the items you don’t need. To assign scenarios and customer fields to ledgers,
follow this menu path: IMG: Financial Accounting (New) ➤ Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) ➤
Ledgers ➤ Ledger ➤ Assign Scenarios and Customer Fields to Ledgers. The Display View “Ledgers”:
Overview screen comes up. On the screen, select 0L Leading Ledger from the list of displayed ledgers
(Figure 19-6).
Figure 19-6. Ledgers overview screen for assigning scenarios – leading ledger
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