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Andreas Reccius

Georg Dopf

Stefan Gauger

Michael Conrad

Dirk Henrich

Rolf Schumann

Kai-Michael Roesner

Markus Klein

Danny Pannicke

Peter Schwarz

Thomas Schachner

Juergen Alfred Seyfried

Michael Hohendorf

Gerald Paetzold

Karsten Bruening

Thomas Schneider

Gunther Liebich

Daniel Bock

Joachim Kenntner

Michael Meyringer

Thomas Hoffmann

Fabian Guenther

Dieter Krisch

Udo Laub

Peter Von Zimmermann

Ralf Dinkel

Olaf Duevel

Ralf Klein

Otfried Geisau

Jan Penning

Juergen Kind

Volker Faisst

Radim Sykora

Joachim Welte

Torsten Bachmann

Martin Schorr

Andrea Roesinger

Michael Sylvester

Edwin Himmelsbach

Ruediger Raubeck

Christiane Cramer

Joachim Liebler

Bernhard F Kuhn

Rainer Soltek

Franz-Joachim Hoeckenreiner

Harald Roedel

A system stores financial accounting data in a Base ledger, together with overlying extension ledger(s). An engine receives both generic financial data, and financial data utilized for specific purposes. Utilizing a mapping table the engine stores in an underlying Base ledger, the generic financial data (e.g., a fixed asset acquisition). The engine stores in overlying extension ledgers, specific financial data (e.g., a linear asset depreciation and/or an declining balance method of asset depreciation) derived from that generic data. This reduces memory footprint by persisting the generic data in one location only. The stored data may be read utilizing dataviews combining data from Base and extension ledgers. A recursive algorithm may evaluate chain(s) of ledgers. Embodiments may be particularly suited to store in the Base ledger generic financial data common to multiple accounting principles (e.g., GAAP, IFRS), and store in extension ledger(s) the associated financial data specific to those accounting schemes.

Extension ledger

Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having accounting functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.

Providing accounting software application as enterprise services

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing expense reimbursement. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include an Expense and Reimbursement Management process component, a Due Item Processing process component, a Payment Processing process component, a Payroll Processing process component, and an Accounting process component.

Architectural design for expense reimbursement application software

A computer network architecture for making procurement-related information that has been generated on a transaction level available to data warehousing techniques is described. The network includes a transaction processing layer with at least one accounting component with a general ledger data base for centrally storing information contained in accounted-related data sets, a data warehousing layer and an additional data sourcing layer. A duplicator receives the data sets that will be or have been stored in the general ledger data base and delivers duplicates of those data sets that fulfil a predefined criteria in a procurement context. A source data base stores the duplicated data sets on a data line level. An extractor of the data sourcing layer interfaces with the data warehousing layer and selectively moves data contained in data lines or sets of data lines from the source data base to the data warehousing layer.

Provision of data for data warehousing applications

Systems and methods are provided for generating an accounting document. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided. A message is received that includes operational data. An accounting notification is generated that includes the operational data using a first business object. The accounting notification is processed and the accounting document is generated using a second business object. The accounting document includes a number of posting lines corresponding to the operational data. The accounting document is processed and a set of third business objects is assigned to each posting line. The set of third business objects includes at least one general ledger account business object and a plurality of sub-ledger account business objects. One or more data processing tasks are delegated to the one of the third business objects that are assigned to the given posting line.

Systems and methods for generating an accounting document

A computer network architecture for making procurement-related information that has been generated on a transaction level available to data warehousing techniques is described. The network includes a transaction processing layer with at least one accounting component with a general ledger data base for centrally storing information contained in accounted-related data sets, a data warehousing layer and an additional data sourcing layer. A duplicator receives the data sets that will be or have been stored in the general ledger data base and delivers duplicates of those data sets that fulfill a predefined criteria in a procurement context. A source data base stores the duplicated data sets on a data line level. An extractor of the data sourcing layer interfaces with the data warehousing layer and selectively moves data contained in data lines or sets of data lines from the source data base to the data warehousing layer.

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