Identifying business content based on requirements from Functional Doc

Hi everyone,
I have a requirement to create technical documents from functional documents that I have received. The funct. docs describe the report to be created however, the fields that the user is looking for are basically in plain English (or atleast what the user sees in Peoplesoft). We are implementing SAP and everything is to be converted from Peoplesoft. The fields are as follows:
Year, YTD, Month, Company Code, Cost Center, GL Account #, GL Account name, Report Date, Actual Amount, Budget Amount, Variance Amount.
The functional doc I feel is incomplete since we dont have the source system table and field names in ECC that correspond to the users fields. Anyway, I think the idea at the moment is to create a first draft TD using Business Content. Can someone please tell me what area they think these fields are from? It looks like FI. Does anyone know of any Business Content objects that may contain the some of the users fields (chances of finding all in say one cube may not be high, am I right?). I am new to BI, so please spell everything out in simple terms and a step-by-step manner. I really appreciate the input of all the experts on this forum.
Thanks. <removed by moderator>.
Edited by: Siegfried Szameitat on Nov 25, 2008 3:44 PM

yes MD you are on the right track
But I would advise you to use the ASAP methodology and run blueprint workshops first before even approaching technical specs
If you dont know how the R3 system is structured how can you build a tech spec?
In the workshop there will be functional R3 guys as well as BW consultants and the clients
The clients bring their high level requirements to the table and everybody dicusses it
What you dont want to do is assume that std R3 objects are going to be in place
With the exampel you have given - this may be the only place where budgets have been discussed - the FI guys havent catered for it - so how are you goign to deliver it
I have given you the content areas in my last post I would expect the data to be in - I would suggest you go to the BI content area of help.sap.com and look for each of the areas I have given
Unfortunately there is not enough space here and I dont have enough time to step you through it step by step - thats what Principal BW consultants and architects on your projects are for - talk to them.
If you haven't got any - I suggest your project manager better go out quickly and hire some.
I would strongly advise you to gointo solution manager or sdn and grab hold of the latest ASAP accelerators and ppts - they will help guide you through functional requirements gathering - btu to be quite honest you shoudln't be doing this yourself if you are new to BW
(oh and every wondered why clients pay top dollar for good BW consultants - this is the reason why)

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