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Chapter 19 ■ Customizing New General Ledger Accounting
• Document splitting during posting of documents.
• Support financial statements reporting for legal purposes (for IAS, GAAP, and so on)
and segmental reporting to display a partial balance sheet according to business
functions.
• Create a zero balance setting in the document for any dimension such as segment.
You have the option of displaying the document in its original form with the generated clearing lines in
the entry view or in the general ledger view from the ledger perspective. For the system to perform splitting,
individual document items and all documents involved must be classified in accordance with a rule that
defines how document splitting is to be performed and for which line items. SAP comes with a predefined
set of standard rules that will satisfy your document splitting requirements. It is also possible to define your
own set of rules and adapt them to meet your requirements.
The following are part of document splitting functions:
• Passive document splitting: All document-splitting processes are carried out by
the system using a predetermined internal program with reference to the original
document. Passive document splitting is not controlled by the settings you
conducted in your customizing and does not take the settings in your configuration
into consideration.
• Active document splitting: All document-splitting processes in active document
splitting are carried out based on the settings you conducted in your customizing
without reference to the original document.
Limitations to document splitting include:
• Only documents that are specifically assigned to a business process can be split
when using the document-splitting function.
• When there are multiple business processes within one document, it becomes
difficult to establish a valid relationship between the business process and the
document.
Classify G/L Accounts for Document Splitting
Transactions entered into the system are automatically analyzed by the system based on predefined criteria
to determine how individual line items in the system are to be treated during document processing (such as
by splitting or to remain unchanged). You need to classify document items by assigning them to appropriate
item categories. This categorization will allow the system to recognize how to handle document items
splitting and manage the document-splitting processes based on your classifications in this exercise.
In this exercise, you will assign accounts to the appropriate category in the document-splitting
procedure, which the system will post documents to.
The following categories are supplied by SAP so that you can assign them to your G/L accounts:
• 01000 – Balance Sheet Account
• 01001 – Zero Balance Posting (Free Balancing Units)
• 01300 – Cash Discount Clearing
• 02000 – Customer
• 02100 – Customer: Special G/L Transaction
• 03000 – Vendor
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