Is the new General Ledger compatible with FI-CA (FI # Contract Accounting)?
This question is relevant for each Industry Solution that uses component FI-CA (Contract Accounting) as accounts receivable accounting (IS-U, IS-T, IS-M, IS-PS-CA, FS-CD) and the non-industry-specific contract accounting FI-CAX. As far as possible, FI-CA uses the new General Ledger in ERP2005 in the same way it uses the classic General Ledger. Furthermore, FI-CA supports the account assignment “Segment”, which was introduced as a new standard account assignment in FI. As a rule, the new General Ledger is not compatible with FI-CA if you intend to use document splitting in the new General Ledger. You must check the compatability in each case depending on the release and the active industry solution used. In ERP2005, it is not possible to post to a ledger group in FI-CA. Therefore, if you have to implement different accounting principles in parallel, you must use parallel accounts to process valuation postings that were posted in FI-CA (not directly in the general ledger). In FI-CA, this
