Questions on the exchange of a Leading Ledger with a Non-leading Ledger

Question

Hi, To prepare for IFRS, we are considering on using ECC 6.0 Parallel
Posting function, i.e. Leading G/L & Non-Leading G/L.
My company(EWP) is obligated to post IFRS-based Financial Statements
on 2011. but on March 2011, we need to co-post IFRS-based 2010
Financial Statements comparing with Korean-GAAP F/S.
So, on 2010 the official Accounting G/L should be Korean-GAAP with Non-
Leading G/L being IFRS-based G/L.
But on 2011, the official Accounting G/L should be IFRS-based with Non-
Leading G/L being K-GAAP G/L
The problem is, referring to SAP Korea, that the interchange of Leading
G/L with Non-Leading G/L is very difficult job, or almost impossible.
One company that is doing a project on IFRS is saying that there is no
way but first(on 2010) you should set the leading G/L as IFRS-based.
Then to integrate with FM or CO module, you develop or add-on the
related module(FM, CO, etc.)
Is it true that SAP is so restricted on their function?
If so, I'd like to know about some of many German reference sites that
established IFRS-based G/L a few years ago.
Thanks a lot...

Answer 1

Hi,
>>A CHAR datatype and VARCHAR2 datatype are stored identically (eg: the word 'WORD' stored in a CHAR(4) and a varchar2(4) consume exactly the same amount of space on disk, both have leading byte counts).
Ok, but on the other hands:
SGMS@ORACLE10> create table x (name char(10), name2 varchar2(10));
Table created.
SGMS@ORACLE10> insert into  x values ('hello','hello');
1 row created.
SGMS@ORACLE10> commit;
Commit complete.
SGMS@ORACLE10> select vsize(name),vsize(name2) from x;
VSIZE(NAME) VSIZE(NAME2)
         10            5
SGMS@ORACLE10> select dump(name),dump(name2) from x;
DUMP(NAME)                                         DUMP(NAME2)
Typ=96 Len=10: 104,101,108,108,111,32,32,32,32,32  Typ=1 Len=5: 104,101,108,108,111Cheers