SAP Simple Finance - Universal Journal

A Universal Journal entry consists of a header and respective items and in some scenarios it is possible to have item entries without a header value. Universal Journal is a one-line item table with full detail for all the components. No reconciliation is required and data is stored only once.

Header Table – BKPF
Respective Item Table – ACDOCA
Respective item table ACDOCA consists of all the fields required for General Ledger, Asset Accounting, and Material Ledger, etc.
Universal Journal contains 6-digit line item numbering
Universal Journal contains 23-digit currency fields

For each business transaction in one of the application components, a journal entry is created −

General Ledger Accounting
Asset Accounting
Controlling
Material Ledger
Profitability Analysis

The Journal Entry removes the separation between Financial Accounting and Controlling hence there is no need for any reconciliation between FI and CO, or between FI - General Ledger and FI - Asset Accounting.

Following are the details of the technical component of Simple Finance −

Technical Name	SFIN_20_ACCOUNTING_UJE
Country Dependency	Valid for all countries
Software Component Version	SAP_FIN 720
Application Component	Financial Accounting (FI) Controlling (CO) Accounting General (AC)

As mentioned above, a universal journal entry maintains 23-digit currency fields which brings the currency concept for FI and CO.

For each journal entry, there is a ledger maintained in which the business transaction is posted. You can also enhance the journal entry by extending the coding block and adding CO-PA characteristics.

All Universal Journal entries are written to a new table - ACDOCA and no entries are made to the old tables. However, you can continue to use reports that use data from the old tables.

Navigate to SAP Easy Access → Accounting → Controlling → Profitability Analysis → Planning → Integrated Planning → Transfer Plan Values to FI-GL (New).