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Praful Jain
January 15, 2019 2 minute read
Extension Ledgers in S/4 HANA
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Hello All,
Will try to explain the concept of Extension ledger in comparision to standard ledger with my recent
experiences of projects.
Extension ledgers are one of the powerful options that can be used for Management reporting. These
ledgers staple the data on top of Standard ledgers,hence no data duplications as number of extension
ledgers can point to 1 Standard ledger.There are 2 types of ledgers in SAP S/4 HANA:
1. Standard Ledgers
2. Extension Ledgers
Comparision of Standard Ledger and Extension Ledger:
Standard Ledger Extension Ledger
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This is an independent ledger and standard The underlying ledger is a standard ledger.
ledger is an underlying ledger.
Postings made to standard ledgers will only Postings made to standard ledger will form
be re ected in standard ledger. part of reports of extension ledgers linked
to standard ledger.
Total Balance = Balance in Standard Ledger Total Balance = Balance in Standard Ledger
+
Balance in Extension Ledger
Postings can be speci cally made in Postings can be speci cally made in
standard ledger extension ledger
If you are on Classic GL and migrate to S/4 Extension Ledgers can be activated in S/4
HANA, you cannot activate standard HANA even if you were on classic GL in ECC.
ledgers on day 1 (Subsequent activation of
standard ledger is possible though)
Many Standard ledgers can be created to Many Extension ledgers can be added on
reporting top of Standard ledger. (N:1 is possible)
When Extension ledgers can be activated?
1. This can be activated in S/4 HANA.
2. Unlike standard ledgers, Extension ledgers can be activated in S/4 HANA even if you were not on New-GL
and not used Ledgers in ECC.
3. Extension ledgers are non-disruptive, hence can be actived at any period of time.
Where is the data of Extension ledger stored?
It is stored in ACDOCA table only.
Postings made to standard ledger are not stored in extenstion ledger speci cally.(below example will help
you in better understanding)
Example: You have your standard ledger as 0L and Extension ledger as ZX .
1. If you post a document to 0L. ACDOCA will be updated with ledger posting to 0L only, However when you
try to extract reports like FAGLL03 for ledger ZX, all the postings of 0L+ZX will be calculated for
balances.
2. If you post a document to ZX. ACDOCA will be updated with ledger posting to ZX only,hence in uencing
the balances of ledger ZX.
Con g: The setup of extension ledger is very simple.
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I will try to update this blog with use cases for extension ledger. Happy to get some suggestions and use
cases in comments.
Thanks
Praful Jain.
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Manik Jain
January 17, 2019 at 4:03 am
Hi Praful,
Nice blog.
It will be more useful if you can add use of Non-leading ledgers also!!
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Praful Jain | Post author
January 17, 2019 at 10:36 pm
Hi Manik,
Thanks for your comments.
Non-Leading ledgers and Leading ledgers form part of standard ledgers. You can append extension ledgers
on any of the standard ledgers.
Hope this explains.
Thanks
Praful
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Marssel Vilaça
January 17, 2019 at 1:39 pm
Thanks for sharing, Praful!
I would add about Extension Ledger is that isn’t available for Fixed Assets in Paralell Control, and the new
release 1809 bring new types of this Ledger.
Regards
Marssel
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Praful Jain | Post author
January 17, 2019 at 10:37 pm
Hi Marssel,
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Thanks.
Good point about Fixed assets, can you please point to new types of ledgers in 1809?
Thanks
Praful.
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Gaurav Agarwal
January 18, 2019 at 10:10 am
Good overview Praful!.
New type of ledgers are prediction ledgers. Checkout my blog on that:
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=731173
Also simulation ledger concept not covered above, which is also a type of extension ledger.
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Praful Jain | Post author
January 19, 2019 at 10:37 am
Thanks Gaurav.
Have gone through your blog and its informative.
However, unable to get through the simulation ledger, what will be the usecase for this.
Thanks
Praful.
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Gaurav Agarwal
January 19, 2019 at 12:38 pm
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Simulation ledger is right now released only for forex revaluation use case. There will be more use cases
released by SAP in future for simulation ledger.
Checkout below blog from Srinath Gogineni which explain the simulation ledger for forex valuation use case
is very detailed manner:
https://sapexperts.wispubs.com/ nancials/articles/how-to-use-the-extension-ledger-functionality-in-sap-
s-4hana- nance?id=c1626ee98a864580b258870f123ce233#.XEMaMlwzbIU
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Praful Jain | Post author
January 20, 2019 at 5:25 am
Thanks Gaurav
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Philippe Gauthier
January 21, 2019 at 9:35 am
Hello Praful Jain
Thanks Gaurav Agarwal about your input.
There are some case, which extend ledger can’t be used for a local requirement if it’s based on leading
ledger. For ie in France, there is one case we can’t because extend ledger present all postings even CO, or we
need to publish all posting booked in local ledger for legal authority.
So choice to activate this approach versus to create a new ledger should take in consideration the legal
localization and can have a major impact in the global architecture.
Of course, the new features based on it are not created to answer topics on legal domain.
Thanks for your blog
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Zunaid Hingora
August 9, 2019 at 11:27 am
Hi Praful,
Your blog is very very informative. Thank you. But i have one small doubt. Please guide. Inspite of having
standard Ledgers, why we need extension ledger? Can you give some information on this please?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Zunaid
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Suba Rayudu Bendhanam
September 17, 2019 at 3:12 am
Hi Praful,
Thanks for your blog,
I have a small drought on Extension ledger functionality.
If i post a entry only for Extension ledger ,ACDOCA updates only Extension ledger docs , if i look the report
FAGLL03 by selecting extension ledger and Expense GL and company code i can see standard
ledger(Historical ) as well as Extension ledger documents , if i choose B/S sheet GL i can see only Extension
ledger document .
Moreover it seems no Technical di erence b/w Non- Leading ledger and Extension ledger as look like both
the ledgers functioning is same .
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Can any one help me with the technical di erence b/w Non- leading and Extension ledger .
Thanks,
Subbu.
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