Symptom
When you post FI documents to the new general ledger, CO account assignments of the entry view are not always updated in General Ledger Accounting (new). In the display transactions (for example, FB03 and FAGLL03), the CO account assignments are displayed in the entry view but not in the general ledger view.
Other Terms
FB03, FAGLL03, FAGLB03, CO, real-time integration
Reason and Prerequisites
Prerequisite:
You have activated General Ledger Accounting (New).
You have assigned relevant scenarios for the update in the relevant ledger of General Ledger Accounting (New). (This may be the case as part of the cost center update scenario FIN_CCA).
If it is an FI subsequent process with follow-up costs (posting of cash discount or exchange rate differences) in a document with original account assignment, document splitting must also be activated and relevant document splitting characteristics must be defined in Controlling. (IMG: Financial Accounting (New) -> General Ledger Accounting (New) -> Business Transactions -> Document Splitting -> Define Document Splitting Characteristics for Controlling). This process defines which CO account assignment objects are to be updated in the general ledger, that is, account assignments set there are posted in line items of the entry view to accounts created in Controlling as cost elements.
However, these CO account assignments specified are only updated in General Ledger Accounting (new) if they represent real account assignments, and not statistical account assignments.
Solution
Statistical CO account assignments are not relevant for postings of General Ledger Accounting (new) and are not updated in NewGL for this reason.
Therefore, in the display transactions (for example, FB03 and FAGLL03), these are displayed in the entry view only, and not in the general ledger view. This is not an inconsistency but a correct system response.
A function is provided to update real, revenue-bearing account assignments of CO only in General Ledger Accounting (new). Statistical CO objects are used in CO for reporting only and are not processed by other applications.
Similarly, subsequent CO processes (assessment, distribution) only take real (not statistical) account assignments into consideration. These subsequent processes in CO can create CO/FI follow-on documents in FI during real-time integration. These follow-on documents are based on primary postings. If primary FI processes of General Ledger Accounting (new) also contained statistical account assignments, the update of the CO assessment in FI would also credit the statistical assignments. This would not be correct, since it would cause data inconsistencies between CO and FI.
You can see in the dynamically determined value type (the field WRTTP, in the table COEP, value type 04 means real, 11 means statistical) if a real or statistical posting is made to a CO object. The value type is determined from the combination of account assignment objects and from the posting logic of the document. If the value type 11 is determined, the update tables such as FAGLFLEXA are not updated.
There are some CO objects - such as sales orders and profitability segments - for which real postings are made as a general rule. In the case of multiple account assignments (a maximum of four account assignments can be specified for each CO line item), exactly one real CO object must exist for each line item that can carry the costs and to which postings are also made in FI. Priority rules are defined to determine this. The cost center, for example, is subordinate to other real account assignment objects if it is not a statistical internal order or is a statistical WBS element. Generally, it depends on the combination of the account assignment objects if a real or statistical posting is made to the object.
The primary cost element category "90" is a special case because it represents statistical costs only. As costs that are posted to accounts with cost element category "90" are always statistical, they are not updated in General Ledger Accounting (new).
Revenue cost elements are another exception. These cost elements permit statistical postings only to cost centers. A relevant order, for example, must be specified as the CO object for which real postings are to be made in this case.
