Symptom
You would like to understand the background of the Fiori App Manage Posting Periods - Cost Accounting and the change of app Manage Posting Periods.
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Resolution
- What has changed in app Manage Posting Periods with CE2102?
For releases prior to CE2102 the app Manage Posting Periods behaves as follows:
On the "CO-Related Periods" tab, that you reach after clicking "Set Posting Periods", there are two main sections.
1) With the upper part - "Fiscal Year Period" you control Posting Periods for Journal Entries recorded for CO transactions per company-code or posting period variant and range of accounts. By that you can allow CO transactions to still be recorded in the Journal while the period has already been closed for operational transactions.
2) With the lower part - "Set CO Periods" you control the Posting Period for CO transactions by Transaction Type. The setting is neither company-code/posting period variant specific nor dependent.
Manage Posting Periods app Before CE2102
Manage Posting Periods app After CE2102
With release CE2102, the lower part has been replaced by a completely new app Manage Posting Periods-Cost Accounting. You see 'CO Period Status' right down corner on the initial screen of the app Manage Posting Periods. By clicking it the user is navigated to the new app with subtitle Cost Accounting. And there you can control Posting Periods based on Company code and Business Transaction Type. - What's unchanged in app Manage Posting Periods in the CO related Periods tab?
In the upper part of the "CO-Related Periods" tab you can still give a general allowance for CO transaction related Journal Entries to be recorded to the General Ledger, even if the Period is already closed for other Journal Entries. - What's new with the CO Periods managed on 'CO Period Status' (which will navigate to the new app) when compared with the CO-Related Periods (managed on the option 'Set Posting Period' in old app)?
1) You can now control Posting Period per Company Code.
2) With CE2105 you can control Posting Periods per Business Transaction Type Group, where a Group is a sub node of a Business Transaction Type Hierarchy (defined in app Manage Global Hierarchies).
3) With CE2105 you can open ad close Posting Periods for CO transactions automatically by scheduling a job.
4) In the app Manage Posting Periods using "CO Period Status" you are navigated into the new app Manage Posting Periods - Cost Accounting.
5) The new app controls Posting Periods for CO-transactions by Business Transaction Type, as you formerly did with the control you found underneath the remaining CO-related, where you controlled Posting Periods for CO-transactions by Transaction Type. - For which Types of CO Business Transaction can you control the Posting Period?
In CE2102, the following 18 Bus. Trans. Types listed below can be seen and maintained in the new app Manage Posting Periods – Cost Accounting.
Business Transaction Type
Text
Fiscal Year
Initial Status
AAAT
Univ. Allocation Top Dw. Dist.
2020/2021
Open*
ACAA
Univ. Allocation CC Act. Assm.
2020/2021
Closed
ACAD
Univ. Allocation CC Act. Dist.
2020/2021
Closed
AMAA
Univ. Allocation PA Act. Assm.
2020/2021
Closed
AMAD
Univ. Allocation PA Act. Dist.
2020/2021
Closed
APAA
Univ. Allocation PC Act. Assm.
2020/2021
Closed
APAD
Univ. Allocation PC Act. Dist.
2020/2021
Closed
KAMV
Manual Cost Allocation
2020/2021
Closed
KOAO
Actual Settlement
2020/2021
Open*
KSII
Actual Price Calculation
2020/2021
Open*
KSPA
Assessment to CO-PA
2020/2021
Open*
KVAR
Variance calculation
2020/2021
Open*
KZPI
Actual Overhead (periodic)
2020/2021
Open*
RKIU
Actual Overhead Assessment
2020/2021
Open*
RKL
Actual Activity Allocation
2020/2021
Open*
RKS
Enter statistical key figures
2020/2021
Open*
RKU1
Repost Costs
2020/2021
Open*
RKU2
Repost Revenue
2020/2021
Open*
Business Transaction Type COIN (“CO Through-postings from FI”) for example, which controls FI- or external postings recorded in CO, must be controlled at source for the causing process and the posting period must be Open*ed or closed for the respective P&L accounts as of release CE2102.
In a later release we plan to ship a SSCUI such that the user could exclude Business Transaction Types which are not used in his/her business system.
- What is the initial or defaulted status of Posting Periods?
With the first delivery of the new app in CE2102 the initial status of Posting Periods will be defaulted for all company codes by the previous (company code independent) settings for 2020 and 2021 in order to avoid “Day One” impact (causing that users would have all periods closed by default and would need to open them manually before their first posting): if the posting period had been open for a specific Transaction Type prior to the version upgrade, it will appear as open for all company codes thereafter. Please see details above. For Business Transaction Types of the Universal Allocation, for which it was not yet possible to control the posting period status prior to CE2102, the initial status will be “Closed”. For new Company Codes the Initial Status of the Posting Period will be “Open” for periods 1-12 of the current Fiscal Year.
This initial default Opening of periods running in the background during the version upgrade is not visible in the App change log.
However, all manual changes done afterwards should be visible in the change log.
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