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What is SAP Master Data Governance for Financials and how does the MDG-F process work?

SAP Master Data Governance for Financials (MDG-F) centralizes financial master-data maintenance through change requests, workflow approval, staging, activation, and replication. It uses standard data model 0G, flexible entity types, editions for time-dependent objects, and release-dependent predefined edition/change-request content.

SAP Master Data Governance for Financials (MDG-F) centralizes financial master-data maintenance through change requests, workflow approval, staging, activation, and replication. It uses standard data model 0G, flexible entity types, editions for time-dependent objects, and release-dependent predefined edition/change-request content.

SAP Master Data Governance for Financials (MDG-F) supports centralized financial master-data governance through change-request-based processing. Unapproved changes remain in staging until workflow approval, then activated data is replicated to connected operational or analytics systems. MDG-F uses standard data model 0G, flexible entity types, and editions for time-dependent objects.

Process flow

  1. Find, create, change, or mark financial master data for deletion.
  2. Process changes centrally through MDG using a change request.
  3. Route the request through workflow and approval or revision phases.
  4. Store unapproved changes in staging.
  5. Activate the approved master data.
  6. Replicate active data to connected systems.
  7. Use editions for SU Type 1 entities and keep dependent objects active before referencing them.

Referenced tables

ObjectPurpose
SKA1Chart of accounts-dependent G/L account master data.
SKATG/L account texts.
SKB1Company-code-dependent G/L account data.
T880Company customizing.
T011Financial Reporting Structure / Financial Statement Version.
CSKSCost center master data.
CSKTCost center texts.
CSKACost element master data.
CSKBControlling-area-dependent cost element data.
CSKUCost element texts.
CEPCProfit center master data.
CEPC_BUKRSProfit center company-code assignment.

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Related questions and keywords

Alternative questions

  • What is MDG-F?
  • What business problem does MDG Financials solve?
  • How does MDG govern financial master data?

Possible questions

  • Which software layers are required for MDG-F?
  • What is data model 0G in MDG-F?
  • How does staging and activation work in MDG-F?
  • What are the main financial entities in MDG-F?
  • How are dependencies handled between MDG-F objects?

Keywords

MDG-FFinancial GovernanceChange RequestWorkflowStagingApprovalActivationDistribution0GMDG_FNDSAP_APPLEditionSU Type 1