Domain catalogue Finance on SAP S/4HANA

General ledger account on SAP S/4HANA

The chart of accounts as governed master data: one account list, its groupings, its company-code views and the mappings to every local chart.

SOURCES, READ IN PLACESAP S/4HANAERPASSEMBLED1 · standardise2 · match on the domain keys3 · survive field by field4 · place in the hierarchies5 · run the column and row rules6 · publish the golden viewGOLDEN GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTGeneral ledger accountone id · every source key keptREAD BYGrids, pivots and drill-downswith the transactionsAPIs, SQL and agentsone policyWrite-back to the systemsacknowledged
The objects the domain reads in place on SAP S/4HANA, the assembly steps, and who reads the result. Writes go through released BAPIs and IDocs.
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objects read in place from SAP S/4HANA
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attribute groups assembled
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write path, acknowledged and logged
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rows copied to start
product
What the domain reads

The SAP S/4HANA objects behind the golden record

Tables are read in place through the SAP connector, using released read interfaces and change capture where the basis team allows it. The rows stay in SAP.

ObjectRead fromFields the domain usesFreshness
Chart of accountsSKA1 · SKATKTOPL · SAKNR · TXT50 · XBILK · GVTYPlive; change capture where enabled
Company-code viewSKB1BUKRS · SAKNR · XSPEB · WAERSlive; change capture where enabled
Financial statement versionT011 · FAGL_011ZCVERSN · ERGSLlive; change capture where enabled
JournalACDOCARACCT · RBUKRS · FISCYEARPER · HSLlive; change capture where enabled
The keys

How general ledger account records match, in this system's fields

account number within a chartgroup account mapping

The first object above carries the strong keys; the standardised attributes come from the same rows. Local accounts map to exactly one group account per version; the mapping is master data with its own history.

What is written back

Through the interfaces SAP S/4HANA supports

Writes go through released BAPIs and IDocs. Each call returns a document number or an error message, and Lima records both beside the change.

InterfaceUsed forResult
BAPI_ACC_GL_ACCOUNT_CREATE (where released) · IDoc GLMASTgolden values approved for write-back: account; groupings; company-code viewthe id or error SAP S/4HANA returns, stored beside the change

Write-back is off per object until a test write succeeds, and approval rules can require a person per object. Reconciliation compares the source row with the golden value on a schedule.

Access and prerequisites

What is in place before the first build

SAP roles are mapped to Lima access policies once. A steward who sees purchasing organisation 1000 in SAP sees the same rows here.

Register the objects4 objects from the connector catalogue; each shows its rows at once.
Also on SAP ECC

The same domain on SAP ECC

ObjectOn SAP S/4HANAOn SAP ECC
Chart of accountsSKA1 · SKATSKA1/SKB1; journal in BKPF/BSEG
Company-code viewSKB1same objects
Financial statement versionT011 · FAGL_011ZCsame objects
JournalACDOCAsame objects
Nearby

This domain on other systems, and other domains on SAP S/4HANA

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Terms on this page

Chart of accountsThe list of accounts a company posts to, with their meaning.
Financial statement versionA hierarchy of accounts into statement lines, kept as versions.
Read in placeThe rows stay in SAP S/4HANA; Lima sends the filter and the columns and SAP S/4HANA returns the matching rows.
Questions

Does this domain copy data out of SAP S/4HANA?

The golden record reads the objects above in place. History the pivot needs at scale is landed in your lake by the Backbone, under the same keys, security and audit.

What does the SAP S/4HANA team need to do?

Grant the read access and the write interfaces listed above and agree the refresh method. Nothing is installed in SAP S/4HANA.

Can we start with reads only?

Yes. Write-back stays off per object until a test write succeeds; the golden view, the API and the pivots work from day one on reads.

See your first domain built on your data

Bring two systems that hold the same customers, suppliers or materials. In one working day we connect them, run the match on live rows, review the queue with your steward and publish the first golden view with its API.