Release Notes
SAP Accounting
for Insurance Contracts 2.0
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About this Document ..................................................................................................................................... 4
1
Relevant Business Content Customizing Paths .................................................................................... 4
2
Naming Conventions.............................................................................................................................. 4
3
Business Content Calculations .............................................................................................................. 5
4
Nominal Amount replaced by Sum Insured or Premium Sum ............................................................ 5
5
Edit Basic Settings for Accounting System............................................................................................ 6
6
Posting Level Change and Removal of the Switch................................................................................ 6
7
Replacement of Sales Product Field with Portfolio ID ......................................................................... 6
8
Imported Subledger Documents ........................................................................................................... 7
9
Replacement of Buy/ Sell Flag with Direction of Business................................................................... 7
10
Assign Identifier to FT Template and FP Type .................................................................................. 7
11
Edit Key Figure Calculation Rules ...................................................................................................... 7
About this Document
As of the latest release of banking services from SAP, the Finance and Risk Data Platform (FRDP)
contains a new data model which includes new fields and templates for SDL objects and new RDL
objects (results data areas and types). As a result, Business Content for SAP Accounting for Insurance
Contracts has been adjusted accordingly.
This document does not describe the updates to the FRDP data model, but focuses only on the
updates to Business Content for SAP Accounting for Insurance Contracts.
1 Relevant Business Content Customizing Paths
Assign Identifier to FT Template and FP Type (new)
SAP Customizing -> Financial Services-> Insurance Analyzer-> Processes and Methods-> Accounting for
Financial Products-> After Generation-> Financial Position Processes-> Processing of Internal Business
Transactions-> Key Date Valuation-> Accounting Processes-> Insurance Valuation Components-> Assign
Identifier to FT Template and FP Type.  see Section 10
Edit Basic Settings for Accounting System (new)
SAP Customizing -> Financial Services-> Insurance Analyzer-> Processes and Methods-> Accounting for
Financial Products-> After Generation-> Edit Basic Settings for Accounting System  see Section 5
Edit Key Figure for Calculation Rules (changed)
SAP Customizing -> Financial Services-> Insurance Analyzer-> Processes and Methods-> Accounting for
Financial Products-> After Generation-> Financial Position Processes-> Processing of Internal Business
Transactions-> Key Date Valuation-> Accounting Processes-> Insurance Valuation Components-> Edit
Key Figure Calculation Rules  see Section 11
2 Naming Conventions
As of SAP Accounting for Insurance Contracts 2.0, a new namespace has been adopted for all
Customizing entries provided as Business Content. The relevant areas are as follows:
Area
IA naming Convention
(prefix)
Key figure
D instead of Y
Calculation procedures
D instead of Y
Calculation steps
D instead of Y
Item type
DD instead of Y
Calculation procedure templates
D instead of Y
Item type templates
D instead of Y
Calculation methods
D instead of Y
Derivation rules (for posting key figure, for D instead of Y
GL accounts, for calculation procedures,…)
Primary data source
D instead of Y
Secondary data source
D instead of Y
The following Customizing activities have been changed in line with the change to the naming
conventions:
Customizing Activities
Category
Layer
Edit Transaction Types
Edit Classification for Risk Basis
Edit Flow Types for Flow
Define Derivation Environment
Edit Derivation Environments and
Derivation Modules (for Deriv. Env.
DIPOSTRULE & DIVALUPARA)
Edit Reference Interest Rates and
Yield Curves
Create Market Data Set
Create Valuation Rules
Create Transaction Forms
Define Financial Position Classes
Define Financial Position Types
Edit Business Transaction Types
Assign Derived Business Transaction
Type to Primary Business Trans.
Type
Assign Business Transaction
Categories to Business Transaction
Types
Customizing
Customizing
Customizing
Customizing
SDL
SDL
SDL
Infrastructure
Customizing
Infrastructure
Customizing
Customizing
Customizing
Customizing
Customizing
Customizing
Customizing
Foundation
Foundation
PML
PML
PML
PML
PML
Customizing
PML
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
D instead of Y
Customizing
PML
3 Business Content Calculations
Previously in SAP Accounting for Insurance Contracts, the IFRS 17-specific Business Content
calculations were provided as modules in Customizing for module steps. As of SAP Accounting for
Insurance Contracts 2.0, the Business Content calculations in Customizing for module steps have all
been rewritten as code in ABAP. This improves system performance considerably. Furthermore, no
Business Content is provided for the following Customizing activities:
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Edit Application Process Steps
Edit Business Add-Ins
Edit Modules
Edit Logical Structures
Edit Enrichment Modules (under Coding Block)
Assign Coding Block Secondary Data Source to Accounting System (under Coding Block)
4 Nominal Amount replaced by Sum Insured or Premium Sum
To scale cash flows delivered at portfolio level down to the respective level, SAP Accounting for
Insurance Contracts previously used the nominal amount stated on the policy and coverage for
primary insurance contracts, and the treaty section for reinsurance.
In the new data model provided in FRDP, the Nominal Amount field is no longer available. Instead, two
new fields with an insurance-specific functional meaning have been introduced: the fields Sum
Insured and Premium Sum. The Sum Insured field is used as a scaling factor for life insurance business,
and the Premium Sum field for non-life insurance business.
To determine which key figure is to be used, a new field has been introduced which indicates for each
combination of flow category and flow type whether the premium sum or the sum insured is used.
The new field Scaling Indicator is provided in the result type SICAFL in the SIA result data area.
Field
/1BA/_BA5C_SCATY
Description
Scaling
Indicator
Type
CHAR
Length
2
Master Data
0 – Premium Sum
1 – Sum Insured
Status
New
5 Edit Basic Settings for Accounting System
A Customizing table for assigning IFRS 17-specific reference key figures and business transaction types
to an accounting system has been created. These reference key figures and business transaction types
trigger different calculations in the calculation methods:
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CSM Ref KF identifies which reference key figure is used for posting to the contractual service
margin (CSM) for insurance or reinsurance contracts measured using the building block
approach (BBA) during the accounting processes Update Secondary Business Transactions
(USBT) and Key Date Valuation (KDV).
UWL Ref KF identifies which reference key figure is used for posting to the Unwind of Loss (UWL)
key figure which is equal to the premium reserve for insurance or reinsurance contracts
measured using the premium-allocation approach (PAA) during the accounting processes USBT
and KDV.
Derec. BT Type identifies which business transaction type is used to trigger the clearing of
remaining balances at derecognition of insurance or reinsurance contracts during the
accounting process USBT.
The following Business Content Customizing activity has been changed:
Customizing view
/NXC/VI0_CSL
Transaction name
Edit Basic Settings for Accounting System
Status
Changed
6 Posting Level Change and Removal of the Switch
Postings can now be made at contract level or coverage level for policy contracts or at treaty section
item level for reinsurance contracts.
Posting Level
Policy Contract
Object
Policy
Status
New
The posting level switch is no longer supported as of SAP Accounting for Insurance Contracts 2.0. to
identify the right posting level without the switch, a business transaction always refers to a
combination of node number and template which points to the relevant financial transaction
hierarchy template.
7 Replacement of Sales Product Field with Portfolio ID
FRDP no longer uses the field Sales Product. Semantically, it has been replaced by the following fields:
Technical Field name
/1BA/_BA5C_TIDSP
/1BA/_BA5C_TIDPR
/1BA/_BA5C_TIDEP
Description
Sales Product Template ID
Product ID
Elementary Product ID
Level
Policy / Treaty
Contract / Section
Coverage / Section Item
Status
New
New
New
Due to this change, the following derivations have been created:
Technical name
DIVALUPARA,
DIPORTFID
DIVALUPARA,
DIVALPAR
Description
IS Posting Rules: Portfolio ID
Status
New
IS Posting Rules: Valuation Parameters
New
8 Imported Subledger Documents
Previously, the Data Management component was used to handle imported subledger documents (ISD),
and to store these in the RDL. As of SAP Accounting for Insurance Contracts 2.0, the import of subledger
documents is no longer delivered as Business Content; instead the recommended tool for ISD
transformation is the Data Load Layer, a standard Business Warehouse-based load framework (see SAP
Note 2312690).
9 Replacement of Buy/ Sell Flag with Direction of Business
The Buy/Sell indicator is no longer part of the financial transaction template for policies. For the financial
transaction template for treaties, this field has been replaced by Direction of Business.
Name
Business Direction
Technical Name
/ /1BA/_BA5C_DOBUS
Type
Char
Length
2
Status
New
The following derivations have been changed based on this replacement:
Technical Name
DIPOSTRULE, DIACCKF
DIPOSTRULE, DIAGLACC
DIPOSTRULE, DIASSLIA
DIPOSTRULE, DIHOLDCT
Description
IS Posting Rules: Derivation of Posting Key Figures
IS Posting Rules: G/L Account Derivations
IS Posting Rules: Assets / Liabilities
IS Posting Rules: Holding Categories
Status
New
New
New
New
10 Assign Identifier to FT Template and FP Type
A new Customizing table has been added to the Processes and Methods layer in SAP Accounting for
Insurance Contracts to assign an identifier to a financial transaction template and to a financial
position type based on an accounting system. You need to make this assignment to be able to identify
custom financial transaction templates and custom posting levels. For the latter, the system uses the
financial transaction type. The identifier controls which financial position types and financial
transaction templates are processed in the calculation methods.
Customizing view
/NXC/VCI0_FPT_TP
Transaction name
Assign Identifier to FT Template and to FP Type
Status
New
11 Edit Key Figure Calculation Rules
To enable you to specify whether the combination of accounting system, calculation step and
reference key figure triggers an onerous contract test calculation, the IS OCT Relevant field has been
added to the Customizing table /NXC/VCI0RLKF.
Customizing view
Transaction name
Status
/NXC/VCI0RLKF
Edit Key Figure Calculation Rules
Changed