SAP New G/L Document Splitting

Document splitting is a new feature in the new General Ledger that enables you to create balanced financial statements for entities such as profit centers and segments.

The predefined splitting method (0000000012) covers the majority of business scenarios but some cases still require you to go beyond the standard splitting functions. With document splitting activated, the system splits accounting line items according to splitting rules.

Setting in Document Splitting

• Splitting Method : Standard method used 0000000012, Modifiable
• Splitting Rule : Combination of Document Splitting Method, Business Transactions and Variants – Modifiable
• Item Categories – System Defined
• Standard Variants – Standard 0001, Modifiable

Document Splitting Structure :

Steps 1 :

The system checks if the entry for the account has been maintained in the document splitting setting : “Classify G/L Accounts for Document Splitting”, the “Category” defined for the relevant account is then identified.

Steps 2 :

The system then checks the “Classify Document Types for Document Splitting” for the document type setting as per the document type that was entered. In this case it is “KR”.

Steps 3:

The system then checks the “Define Document Splitting Rule” to check for the transaction “0300” :

The system then checks the “Item categories assigned to this (higher level)” in the same window to the left:

The system then checks the “Base item categories” under the above item category, and if this category has been specified in the first setting in Step 1, this is taken as the base in calculating how the Vendor value should be splitted.

The above was a brief on how the Document Splitting functionality works in SAP. Hope you found this post useful, for more information with examples on this functionality, feel free to drop me an email.

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