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What does SAP Master Data Governance for Financials provide?

SAP Master Data Governance for Financials (MDG-F) provides centralized governance for financial master data using change requests, workflow, staging, approval, activation, and distribution to connected systems.

SAP Master Data Governance for Financials (MDG-F) provides centralized governance for financial master data using change requests, workflow, staging, approval, activation, and distribution to connected systems.

SAP Master Data Governance for Financials (MDG-F) provides centralized governance for financial master data. It uses change-request-based processing, workflow, staging, approval, activation, and distribution to connected operational or business intelligence systems.

Process flow

  1. Find, create, change, or mark financial master data for deletion.
  2. Process the change centrally through MDG.
  3. Use change-request-based processing.
  4. Route the change through workflow and, where required, multiple approval or revision phases.
  5. Store unapproved changes in staging.
  6. Activate approved master data.
  7. Distribute active data to connected operational or business intelligence systems.

MDG-F hub artifacts belong to software layer MDG_FND.

On SAP ERP, include SAP_APPL when accounting or controlling components are used; it owns customizing tables used by relevant accounting and controlling entities.

Use standard MDG-F data model 0G for financial master data governance.

Prefer edition type 0G_ALL for SU Type 1 entities when appropriate.

Referenced tables

ObjectPurpose
T880Source table referenced for the COMPANY entity.
T011Source table referenced for the FRS entity.
SKA1Related backend table for ACCOUNT chart-of-accounts data.
SKATRelated backend table for ACCOUNT text data.
SKB1Related backend table for ACCCCDET company-code-dependent G/L Account data.

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Keywords

MDG-FFinancial GovernanceChange RequestWorkflowStagingApprovalActivationDistributionMDG_FNDSAP_APPL0G