Academy · Finance · 200 Practitioner
General Ledger Master Data and Chart of Accounts
Covers G/L account master data in SAP S/4HANA: operational, group and country charts of accounts, G/L account types (balance sheet, nonoperating, primary cost or revenue, secondary cost, cash), company code settings such as open item management and field status, and financial statement versions. Ends with how to test and sign off a new or changed G/L account before it reaches production.
- 33 minutes
- 5 lessons + quiz
- Finance Practitioner, Key User
What you’ll be able to do
- Distinguish operational, group and country charts of accounts
- Explain G/L account types including primary and secondary cost accounts
- Maintain chart-of-accounts and company-code data for a G/L account
- Describe the role of financial statement versions
- Test a new G/L account end to end before release
Sources and further reading
- Checking the Basic Settings in General Ledger (G/L) Accounting · SAP Learning
- Managing Master Data (Cost Center and Internal Order Accounting in SAP S/4HANA) · SAP Learning
- Managing Financial Statements · SAP Learning
- Configuring a New Financial Statement Version · SAP Learning
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud G/L Account Master Data FAQs · SAP Community
- SAP S/4HANA product documentation (on-premise / Cloud Private Edition) · SAP Help Portal