How to get accumulated G/L balance from G/L Line items 0fi_gl_4

Question

Hi All,
In the cube 0figl_c01 the 0balance generates the accumulated balance that is great. But 0figl_c01 gets data from 0fi_gl_1
but 0fi_gl_1 gets data from GLT0 which does not have the summary balances by BSEG-VBUND (partner company).
0fi_gl_4 generates the GL cumulative balances (monthly balances) by VBUND (partner company).
I want to generate the Accumulated balance which includes the opening balances by G/L account as in 0fi_gl_1 in the data source 0fi_gl_4.
Can any of you please clarify how I can get accumulated balances in the data source 0fi_gl_4.
Also is there any other FI business content data source that can give the accumulated balance like 0fi_gl_1 but by VBUND(partner company)
Thanks
Karen
Edited by: KarenFarr on Jun 14, 2010 12:20 PM

Answer 1

Two ways.. one involves heavy cube transformation the other query run time
Take the query run time option - simple - if it is a balance sheet account just have a rkf from 1900 up to selection variable date if it is a P&L account have a rkf which goes from period 1 of selection variable year up to selection variable date
The P&L/Balance sheet can be derived from the balance sheet indicator field on 0gl_account (ie make it a nav att in the cube)
The second option is slightly different and involves building a different cube along the lines of the PCA accumulated balance technique. Cretae a summary cube based on GL1 but add VBUND - then feed it from GL4 - however when you enter the data in transformations into the new cube disaggregate on load and post into the future
ie
period 1 transaction posts into the balance for periods 2 - end of time... (for balance sheet) and periods 2-16 for P&L
a period 5 transaction would only post from period 5 onwards
Therefore when you compress the cube all of these postings will end up as on aggregated figure
(see the documentation for PCA and the associated OSS notes around this for code examples)
The problems with this approach for use with ALL gl accounts is that you have to worry about the postings for P&L or balance sheet and have differing rules - the other more importantly is some countries have differing views on how to post year end rules.
ie some countries clear down the P&L via postings and do a manual posting to retained earnings - others use the SAP standard where the P&L is left alone but there is a posting into period 0 ONLY in GLT0 and without a corresponding journal
In this sense the explanation above will run you into trouble as the balance sheet for retained earnings will never be updated
In new installations all of this is not really a problem as you will be using the new GL which takes care of all this stuff if you build esgment tables to hold the summary