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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
- Find, create, change, or mark financial master data for deletion.
- Process changes centrally through MDG using a change request.
- Route the request through workflow and approval or revision phases.
- Store unapproved changes in staging.
- Activate the approved master data.
- Replicate active data to connected systems.
- Use editions for SU Type 1 entities and keep dependent objects active before referencing them.
Referenced tables
| Object | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKA1 | Chart of accounts-dependent G/L account master data. |
SKAT | G/L account texts. |
SKB1 | Company-code-dependent G/L account data. |
T880 | Company customizing. |
T011 | Financial Reporting Structure / Financial Statement Version. |
CSKS | Cost center master data. |
CSKT | Cost center texts. |
CSKA | Cost element master data. |
CSKB | Controlling-area-dependent cost element data. |
CSKU | Cost element texts. |
CEPC | Profit center master data. |
CEPC_BUKRS | Profit center company-code assignment. |
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- What is MDG-F?
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