Migration Guide for SAP S4HANA 1809-FICO
                     SAP S/4HANA
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Migration Guide for SAP S/4HANA 1809.
Agenda 
• Why S/4 Hana? – Overview
• Single Source of Truth
• Changes at GL level
• Bank Account Management
• New Asset Accounting
• Changes in Controlling
• Obsolete and New Transaction codes in S/4 HANA 
• Credit Management
• General
• 2Migration Guide for SAP S/4HANA 1809
Universal Journal - Single Source of 
Truth
• One line item table with full detail for all applications - for instant insight & easy extensibility.
• Data stored only once: no more reconciliation needed.
• Fast multi-dimensional reporting possible.
Universa l Journal 
• S/4 Hana  Features •  Business Impact
• Ultimate single source of truth • Secondary  cost element is now 
for instant insight and easy part of the Trail Balance.
customer extensions. • No reconciliation required for the 
• ONE line item table with full FI and Co  Transaction.
detail for all applications. • Accounting Principle  is now 
• Secondary cost elements are now introduced in S4hana for FI 
G/L accounts. Transaction
• Data stored only once: no 
reconciliation needed by design
• Reduction of memory footprint 
through elimination of 
redundancy.
S/4 HANA Changes and Business Impact
• S/4 Hana Features • Business Impact
• General Ledger • General Ledger
• New Concept of Universal Journal • Real Time Integration/Recon. Ledger not 
introduced in S/4 Hana. (ACDOCA Table required as CO is part of Universal Journal.
with full details of all Components). • Fast multi-dimensional reporting possible.
• GL Account Master
• GL Account Master
• New “Account Type“ selection is 
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introduced with the Possible values like: For creating New GL accounts, correct Account 
type need to be select for P&L accounts.
 “X” Balance Sheet Account
 •“N” Non-Operating Expenses and T-code KA01/KA02/KA04 is no longer available. 
Income In GL master itself, cost element will be define.
 “P”  Primary Costs or Revenue • Record account assignment  indicator can be 
 “S”  Secondary Costs set on reconciliation accounts for fixed asset or 
material only
• Cost Elements are part of Chart of 
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Accounts. New field “Cost Element The Profit and loss account which is not 
Category”. Merging Cost Element Master created  as Cost element  are converted as non 
Data with GL Master Data. operative exp or income
GL Master Data Changes (FS00) 
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S/4 HANA Changes and Business Impact
• S/4 Hana New Features • Business Impact
• Account Receivable / Account • Account Receivable / Account Payable
Payable • Customer/ Vendor/ Employee as a vendor Master data 
• The mandatory target approach in has to be created through Business Partner. (T-code: BP)
S/4HANA for Master Data is the •Bank Accounting
Business Partner approach. 
• In S4hana Account ID will be part of the Master data
• BP is the single point of entry to 
create, edit, and display master data • Cash Manager role is required to create the House bank 
for business partners, customers, and account creation.
and vendors. • Business can be defined as Account Type i.e. Current 
•Bank Accounting account or Loan Account
• Account Creation is possible  •  Attribute can be defined whether the bank account is an 
through T.code  NWBC and Fiori App operating account or a functional account
in the  Bank  management • Direction can be defined as operating account or a 
• FI12 obsolete in S/4 Hana functional account
• House Bank can be created with new 
• T-code: NWBC  & FI12_HBANK
S/4 HANA Changes and Business 
Impact
• S/4 Hana New Features • Business Impact
•   Asset Accounting • Asset Accounting
• Each Depreciation Area is accounting • Accounting Principle specific entry is possible.
principle specific. • Selection screen is simplified in Depreciation run as 
• No Reconciliation step required in the “reasons for posting run” (planned depreciation 
Financial Close since it is Ensured by S/4 run, repeat, restart, unplanned posting run) are no 
Hana Design. longer relevant.
• Asset Technical Clearing Account will be • Business can easily identified the Asset # in 
trigger at the time acquisition of Asset. Depreciation posting entry.
• New data structures for Depreciation • AJRW is no longer has to be performed at fiscal year 
run. change.
• Posting Document of Depreciation is at • Periodic Asset postings (ASKB) is no longer required 
Asset Level. to run.
• Reconciliation program for FI-AA is obsolete. 
(ABST2)
• Delta deprecation is not available
Depreciation is at Asset Level.
Depreciation Posting at Asset Level
Depreciation is at Asset Level.
Data Structure changes in Asset Accounting.
• The data structures of Asset Accounting have changed as follows..
• You have been using classic Asset Accounting until now and will be using New Asset Accounting in SAP 
S/4HANA. 
• Actual values from tables ANEP, ANEA, ANLP, ANLC are saved in table ACDOCA in New Asset Accounting.
• The values from table ANEK are saved in tables BKPF and ACDOCA in new Asset Accounting. Postings are 
still made to the table BSEG. 
• You can continue to use your existing reports and developments with the help of compatibility views. 
• The Asset Accounting tables ANEA, ANEP, ANEK, ANLC and ANLP are no longer updated in SAP S/4HANA. 
• Reconciliation postings are no longer necessary with closing operations as General Ledger Accounting 
and Asset Accounting are reconciled permanently anyway due to the universal journal entry. 
• New Asset Accounting makes it possible to post in real time in all valuations (that is, for all accounting 
principles). You can track the postings of all valuations, without having to take into account the postings 
of the leading valuation, as was partly the case in classic Asset Accounting. 
S/4 HANA Changes and Business Impact 
within Controlling.
• S/4 Hana New Features • Business Impact
• Cost Centre Accounting • Cost Centre Accounting 
• Ledger group option is available in • Manual Reposting's of  Primary Costs at Ledger Group level is 
reposting's transaction possible.
• T-Code: KB11N • T-Code: KB11N
• Product Costing • Product Costing
• Possible to see the Cost Component split • Possible to see COGS split with in FI or Account based 
of COGS & Production Variances in FI Profitability Analysis  by assigning  P&L  Accounts to the cost 
components of the cost component structure.
• Material Ledger
• Production Variances split can be seen by variance category's 
• Activation of Material Ledger is  required. in FI
• Material Ledger
• Obligatory to Use Material Ledger.
• Activation is required for  inventories valuation perspective.
Credit Management
• If you are not using FI-AR-CR Credit Management there is no business impact for you.
• If you are using FIN-FSCM-CR SAP Credit Management already, there is no business impact for you.
• If you are using FI-AR-CR Credit Management you need to migrate to FIN-FSCM-CR SAP Credit 
Management. S/4HANA provides various tools in order to support and automate this migration.
• FIN-FSCM-CR SAP Credit Management provides additional functionality compared to FI-AR-CR Credit 
Management. The configuration and activation of the additional functionality is not required in the 
context of the migration.
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 Financials – General 
Business Process related information 
There are mandatory configuration steps in General Ledger, Asset Accounting, 
Account-Based CO-PA, and Cash Management (if used). 
IMG -> Migration from SAP ERP to SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA 
You should also consider adapting your reporting strategy to use the new Fiori 
reports that are designed specifically to handle the many fields in the 
universal journal, rather than continuing to work with the classic reports that 
aggregate on the fly according to the fields in the old totals fields. 
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Migration to SAP S/4HANA
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Migration to SAP S/4HANA
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Migration to SAP S/4HANA
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SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check
Preparing Systems
• How much HANA do I need?
• Are my add-ons compatible with SAP S/4HANA?
• What SAP Fiori apps are available?
• What business functions are affected?
• What transactions are affected?
• Will my custom code work with SAP S/4HANA and if not, what do I do?
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SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check
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SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check
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 SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
• SAP S/4HANA Migration Object Modeller is part of the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit.
• Design tool to easily integrate custom objects and enhancements. 
• Integration of newly created objects.
• Custom objects.
• SAP standard objects that are not yet in the scope of the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
• Customer-specific enhancements (e.g. add new fields) to SAP standard objects delivered 
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Thank you.
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