SAP S/4HANA · Module
General Ledger
FI-GLBuilt on ACDOCA
The books of record — every posting, the trial balance, and the financial statements — modeled on the Universal Journal, where one table holds every finance line and every account assignment.
◆Reports
G/L Account Line ItemsLive
Every posting to a G/L account for a period, from ACDOCA.
Trial BalanceLive
Opening, movements, closing — total debits equal total credits.
Financial StatementLive
Balance sheet & P&L on the FSV hierarchy.
Document JournalSoon
Every document posted in a period, header and lines.
Journal Entry AnalysisSoon
Manual vs automatic postings, by user and document type.
◆Tables & master data
ACDOCALive
The Universal Journal — every finance line in one table.
BKPFLive
The accounting document header — one header, many lines.
SKA1 / SKATSoon
G/L account master and description text.
BSEGSoon
Classic line items — open items and payment terms.
FAGLFLEXT / GLT0Soon
Legacy balance tables — now compatibility views.
◆Data model
GL Balance starLive
Fact: account balances · dims: account, FSV node, company code, period.
GL Line-Items starLive
Fact: journal lines · dims: account, cost center, company code, date.
◆Legacy → ACDOCA
Every report here reads the released CDS view or ACDOCA directly — never a compatibility view, never ODP-RFC (SAP Note 3255746). See the extraction pattern →
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Terms on this page
- FI-GL
- SAP's General Ledger module — the books of record.
- ACDOCA
- SAP's single table holding every finance posting (the "Universal Journal").
- BKPF
- The accounting document header — one header per posting.
- Trial balance
- Every account's balance, where total debits equal total credits.
- FSV
- Financial Statement Version — the hierarchy that builds the balance sheet & P&L.
- Star schema
- A report-friendly layout: one "facts" table with "lookup" tables around it.
- CDS view
- Core Data Services — an SAP-supplied, upgrade-safe view onto the data.
- ODP-RFC
- An older extraction route SAP now bans for non-SAP tools (Note 3255746).