New Options for

Getting the Right SAP

Financial Reports into
the Right Users’ Hands

Janet Salmon
SAP AG
 What We’ll Cover …

Introduction
FI Reports: What’s in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in SAP NetWeaver BI?
Role-Based Access to Financials Reports
Other Options for Accessing Financials Reports
Delivering and Printing Reports
Wrap-up

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 Customer Survey: Why Move to SAP ERP?

Empower employees through 66%

faster information access 74% PRODUCTIVITY

Comprehensive analytical and reporting 62%

INSIGHT
capabilities for faster decision making 52%

62%
Grow with business needs 35%
FLEXIBILITY

32%
Improved collaboration 41% EFFICIENCY

= Installed Base = Net New

Results from survey of 120 mySAP ERP 2004 Ramp Up Customers

In a recent survey, SAP customers cited improved employee

productivity and improved reporting as the two most important
reasons to move to SAP ERP

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 Financial Reporting: Business Users

Balance Profit and Cash Flow Segments

Auditors, Sheet Senior Managers,
Loss
Shareholders Executives

General Ledger

Accounts Accounts Cost &

Assets Bank Inventory …
Payable Receivable Revenue
Work in Department
Overdue items Overdue items Asset Balance Cash Balance
process report
Due date Due date Payments Finished Cost of goods
Depreciation
analysis analysis goods sold
Vendor Customer Contribution
Asset History Inventory
balances balances margins
Sheet
Liabilities &
leasing
agreements Cash Manager
Plant Manager Project
AP Accountant Dispute
Manager Credit Manager
Manager Asset Department
© SAP 2008 / 4 Accountant Head
 Introduction …

Improved Productivity and Insight are currently key drivers

for customers moving from SAP R/3 to SAP ERP

SAP ERP includes full SAP NetWeaver® BI capabilities,

including many powerful reports for Financial Reporting.
Enhancement Packages 3 and 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 include new
reports designed specifically for this environment.

SAP ERP provides new options for making reports available to

end users via the SAP NetWeaver Portal and the SAP
NetWeaver Business Client

This session will help you to discover which reports are

delivered for Financial Reporting and how to expose to your
end users these reports and any others you may have built
© SAP 2008 / 5
 What We’ll Cover …

Introduction
FI Reports: What’s in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in SAP NetWeaver BI?
Role-Based Access to Financials Reports
Other Options for Accessing Financials Reports
Delivering and Printing Reports
Wrap-up

© SAP 2008 / 6
 What We’ll Cover
FI Reports: What’s …
in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in
SAP ERP?

Introduction to SAP ERP Reporting

Automatic Roles in SAP ERP
Simplified Financial Reporting in SAP ERP

© SAP 2008 / 7
 Explore SAP ERP Core — Search
SAP Help for “Information System”

SAP has always delivered out-of-the-box

reports for Financial Reporting

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 Explore SAP ERP Core — Search SAP Menus for
“Information System”

SAP moved the reports from report

trees to the menu and generated a
transaction code for each report in
SAP R/3 Release 4.6A
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 Sample Reports: Financial Statements

Senior Managers,
Executives

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 Sample Reports: Due Date Analysis per
Customer/Vendor

AR Accountant AP Accountant
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 Sample Reports: Management Reporting by
Cost Center

Department
Head

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 Sample Reports: Management Reporting by
Profitability Segment

Cost
Accountant

© SAP 2008 / 13
 What We’ll Cover
FI Reports: What’s …
in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in
SAP ERP?

Introduction to SAP ERP Reporting

Automatic Roles in SAP ERP
Simplified Financial Reporting in SAP ERP

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 Role-Based Access via SAP NetWeaver Portal

Automatic Roles: Generates portal content

Available from SAP ERP 6.0, SP8 for all transactions in user role
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 Role-Based Access via SAP NetWeaver
Business Client

NetWeaver Business Client: Calls Report Launchpad with

© SAP 2008 / 16 Available from SAP ERP 6.0, EhP2 links to all user‘s reports
 What We’ll Cover
FI Reports: What’s …
in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in
SAP ERP?

Introduction to SAP ERP Reporting

Automatic Roles in SAP ERP
Simplified Financial Reporting in SAP ERP

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 Simplified Reporting in Financials

Formatted Reporting
Scenarios

Multidimensional and Graphical Analysis

Simple List Reporting

BEx Suite (i.e., BI Reporting Front-End Tools)

Tools

POWER List Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer Web Report

UI Unification Front-End Scalability

¾ Usage of state-of-the-art UI tools ¾ Coverage of most important
¾ Harmonized end-user experience reporting scenarios

¾ Improved end-user productivity ¾ Provide MS Excel and Web-based

reporting environment
¾ Appropriate reports for different
reporting purposes and user groups
(low-end reports <> high-end reports)
¾ Allow transition between different
front-end tools
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 Simple List Report
(Available from SAP ERP 6.0.3)

¾ Profit center payables — example of a simple list report

¾ POWER list without using SAP NetWeaver BI
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 Navigation from List to BEx Analyzer

¾ Switch between front-end tools without additional investment

¾ Usage of BEx Analyzer features without any BI query definition
or any other BI metadata?
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 What We’ll Cover …

Introduction
FI Reports: What’s in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in SAP NetWeaver BI?
Role-Based Access to Financials Reports
Other Options for Accessing Financials Reports
Delivering and Printing Reports
Wrap-up

© SAP 2008 / 21
 What We’ll Cover
FI Reports: What’s…
in SAP NetWeaver BI?
FI Reports: What’s in
SAP Netweaver BI?

Introduction to SAP NetWeaver BI Reporting

Adding SAP NetWeaver BI Content to Automatic Roles
in SAP ERP
Simplified Financial Reporting in SAP NetWeaver BI

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 Explore Business Intelligence — Search SAP
NetWeaver Library for “BI Content”

SAP has delivered business content

for Financials in its BI offerings since
Release 2.1A of SAP NetWeaver BI

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 Delivered Business Content:
Administrator Workbench

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 Activating Business Content

To activate the business content in SAP NetWeaver BI, proceed as follows:

„ Activate Business Intelligence in SAP NetWeaver
„ If the data structures in SAP ERP are fixed (FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-OM, CO-PC, …)
„ Go to the Administrator Workbench in SAP NetWeaver BI and generate relevant
business content (InfoSources, InfoCubes, queries, etc.)
„ Extractors for SAP NetWeaver BI are available in SAP ERP
„ If you are not on SAP ERP, apply plug-ins to R/3 to make extractors available
„ For generated datastructures in SAP ERP, such as Special Ledger (FI-SL) and Profitability
Analysis (CO-PA), you will first need to …
„ Use transaction SBIW (IMG for SAP NetWeaver BI in SAP ERP) to generate
DataSources for application in SAP ERP or SAP R/3
„ Replicate these DataSources to SAP NetWeaver BI
„ Map DataSources to InfoSources in SAP NetWeaver BI
„ Map InfoSources to InfoCubes in SAP NetWeaver BI
„ Create queries to select data from these InfoCubes

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 Link to SAP NetWeaver BI from SAP ERP

Use Transaction SBIW to

access the BI-related
settings in SAP ERP

Follow the steps described

to set up the replication
model for your data

Note that you can also check

the DataSources for the
other applications from this
menu

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 What We’ll Cover
FI Reports: What’s…
in SAP NetWeaver BI?
FI Reports: What’s in
SAP NetWeaver BI?

Introduction to SAP NetWeaver BI Reporting

Adding SAP NetWeaver BI Content to Automatic
Roles in SAP ERP
Simplified Financial Reporting in SAP NetWeaver BI

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 Role-Based Access via SAP NetWeaver
Portal

Automatic Roles: Include Web page containing

Available from SAP ERP 6.0, SP8 links to relevant BI reports
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 Role-Based Access via SAP NetWeaver
Business Client

(1)

(2)

NetWeaver Business Client: Unifies user’s experience of BI

Available from SAP ERP 6.0, EhP2 and ERP reports
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 What We’ll Cover
FI Reports: What’s…
in SAP NetWeaver BI?
FI Reports: What’s in SAP Netweaver BI?

Introduction to SAP NetWeaver BI Reporting

Adding SAP NetWeaver BI Content to Automatic Roles
in SAP ERP
Simplified Financial Reporting in SAP NetWeaver BI

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 Multidimensional Report
(Available from SAP ERP 6.0.3)

¾ Cost center variances — example of a multidimensional report

¾ Shows user-defined exceptions
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 Switch Back-End Connection

¾ You can choose between different back-end scenarios

¾ For example, switch the same BI query between direct real-time access
to ECC data and replicated data in BI
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 Navigation to Back-End-Transaction

¾ By using the right mouse-click context menu it is possible to

easily navigate from a report to another report or a back-end
transaction
¾ The report-report-interface (RRI) passes context information
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 User-Specific Exception Definition

¾ Definition of user-specific exceptions by using an easy to use

wizard during report execution

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 What We’ll Cover …

Introduction
FI Reports: What’s in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in SAP NetWeaver BI?
Role-Based Access to Financials Reports
Other Options for Accessing Financials Reports
Delivering and Printing Reports
Wrap-up

© SAP 2008 / 35
 What We’ll Cover
Role-Based Access…
to Financials Reports
Role-Based Access to
Financials Reports

Role-Based Access to Reports

Report Launchpad
Different Types of Reports

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 Role-Based Access via SAP NetWeaver Portal

SAP ERP 6.0, SP08 includes over 300 sample roles

for SAP ERP Core including many “automatic
roles” for Financials. A complete list of the
delivered roles can be accessed via SAP Note
1000291. You can also use the new functions to
upload your own roles from SAP ERP Core to the
portal content directory.
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 How to: Check Out the Roles Delivered by
SAP in ERP 6.0, SP08

1. Choose transaction PFCG

2. To see all delivered Financials Roles, enter “SAP_EP_RW*”
3. To see the assigned applications, choose the “Menu” tab
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 How to: Configure the Role Upload Service in
the Portal
The following properties must be
maintained for the upload of
automatic roles:
„ Best Fit Leaf Level Œ 3
„ Role Target Folder Œ Portal Content
Directory (PCD) path under which the
uploaded roles can be found
„ Root Path for Migration Objects Œ PCD
path under which the uploaded objects
(iViews, Pages, Worksets) are created
„ User default alias or selected alias as
system identifier Œ Enter “selected” to use
the selected system alias for the role
upload as value for the system properties
of the created iViews

For further details, refer to the

documentation under Portal Œ
Portal Administration Guide Œ
System Administration ΠUpload
Roles from ABAP-Based System
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 How to: Role Upload Tool for Portal
Administrators

Role Upload Tool available in SAP ERP 6.0, SP8

© SAP 2008 / 40
 What We’ll Cover
Role-Based … to Financials Reports
Access
Role-Based Access to
Financials Reports

Role-Based Access to Reports

Report Launchpad
Different Types of Reports

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 Report Launchpad in Automatic Role
(in SAP ERP 6.0, SP08)

Use the Report Launchpad to …

• Expose reports from outside SAP ERP
• Pass start parameters for the report (e.g., relevant cost centers)

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 How to: Set Up a Launchpad for an Automatic
Role (1)

1. Choose transaction PFCG, and enter a role

Note: To add a new Launchpad to a role,
enter a node for a Web Dynpro
application and then the
parameter’s role and instance that
identify your Launchpad
2. The folder “Analytics” calls the Launchpad
as a Web Dynpro (WD) ABAP application

3. To display the technical parameters, right

click on “Display Details”
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 How to: Set Up a Launchpad for an Automatic
Role (2)

4. Call up transaction LPD_CUST and enter the

combination Role and Instance from the PFCG role

5. View list of assigned reports

6. Choose a report from the list

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 How to: Create Folders to Organize Reports

1. Choose “Add Folder”

2. Enter folder name
3. Use drag and drop to assign
reports to correct folder

View results by calling Launchpad from

role (transaction PFCG)

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 Report Launchpad for Simplified Reporting
(From SAP ERP 6.0.3)

(1)

(2)

¾ Report Launchpad as unified approach to start all sorts of reports,

here for example:
(1) Formatted report
(2) Query in MS Excel
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 How to Check the Entries in the Report
Launchpad for Simplified Reporting

1. Call up transaction LPD_CUST and enter the

combination Role FINREP and Instance ERP63

2. View list of assigned reports

3. Choose a report from the list

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 What We’ll Cover
Role-Based … to Financials Reports
Access
Role-Based Access to
Financials Reports

Role-Based Access to Reports

Report Launchpad
Different Types of Reports

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 Starting Reports from the Report
Launchpad (1)

1. Choose “Headcount FTE (Charts)”

2. SAP NetWeaver BI Web Template is displayed in separate window

All SAP NetWeaver BI features can be used within this report!

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 How to: Add Reports from SAP NetWeaver BI

To include an SAP NetWeaver BI

Query, add the name of the
InfoCube and the name of the query

To include an SAP NetWeaver BI

Web Template, add the name of the
Web Template only

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 Starting Reports from Report Launchpad (2)

1. Choose “Internal Orders: Line Item Reports”

2. Transaction is displayed

All drill-down features (including document displays) can be used within this report!
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 How to: Add Reports from SAP ERP with a
Variant

Variants can be defined for all ABAP

reports by choosing “goto > Variants >
Save as Variant” within the transaction

To include a transaction, either enter

the transaction code and start in initial
screen or start with a variant

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 Starting Reports from Report Launchpad (3)

1. Choose “Cost Center: Plan/Actual Report”

2. Report Writer/Painter Report is displayed

All Report Writer features (including drilldown) can be used within this report!
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 How to: Add SAP ERP Reports with
Personalization Dialogs

Report Writer reports and transactions Personalization dialogs can be created

can be started using a Personalization in the IMG under Manager Self Service
Dialog that determines, for example, the ΠPersonalization
cost centers and cost elements for
which the manager is held responsible

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 Types of Reports in the Launchpad
in SAP ERP 6.0, SP8

The following report types can be included

in the Web Dynpro ABAP version of
the Launchpad:
„ Portal Page (if Launchpad used
in SAP Enterprise Portal (SAP EP))
„ Transaction (SAP ECC)
„ URL
„ Query (SAP NetWeaver BI)
„ Web Template (SAP NetWeaver BI)
„ Report Writer (SAP ECC)
„ Web Dynpro Java application
„ Web Dynpro ABAP application
„ KM document (if Launchpad used
in SAP EP)
Note that the Manager’s Desktop settings
„ Visual Composer xApps (if Launchpad are not active in the WD ABAP version!
used in SAP EP)
„ InfoSet Query (SAP ECC) SAP_ABA SP13 also includes entries for
BEx Analyzer, Formatted Reports, and SAP
NetWeaver BI 7.0 Templates and Queries
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 What We’ll Cover …

Introduction
FI Reports: What’s in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in SAP NetWeaver BI?
Role-Based Access to Financials Reports
Other Options for Accessing Financials Reports
Delivering and Printing Reports
Wrap-up

© SAP 2008 / 56
 What
OtherWe’ll Cover
Options for…
Accessing Financials Reports
Other Options to Access
Financials Reports

Reports as iViews in Roles

Reports in Duet™
Embedding Reports in Web Applications

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 Business Unit Analyst: Delivered in SAP
ERP 6.0

SINGLE POINT OF ENTRY

VIEW ALERTS
SWITCH

SERVICE
LINK
EMBEDDED ANALYTICS

WATCHLIST

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 Use SAP Solution Manager to Find and
Activate the Roles

Activate relevant SAP NetWeaver

BI content

Activate relevant portal content

SAP Solution Manager includes details of how to implement all roles -

see folder “Roles for the SAP NetWeaver Portal” for details
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 How to: Include Your Own Report in a Portal
Page

In the portal content directory, find the

portal content for your role and create a
new iView

Select the BW Report Wizard for iView

creation and follow the steps in the
wizard

Add the iView to the portal page using a

delta link

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 What
OtherWe’ll Cover
Options for…
Accessing Financials Reports
Other Options to Access
Financials Reports

Reports as iViews in Roles

Reports in Duet™
Embedding Reports in Web Applications

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 Reports and Analytics

Schedule and access reports in SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BI

Managers
ƒ Receive transactional and SAP
NetWeaver BI reports in mail
folders
ƒ Run ad hoc reports in Excel
ƒ Personalize report parameters
ƒ Schedule report delivery
ƒ View authorized reports
ƒ View analytics

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 Duet™

Budget Monitoring in Microsoft Outlook

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 System Prerequisites for Duet™

Duet™ 1.0
„ Windows Exchange Server 2003
„ Microsoft Office 2003
„ mySAP ERP 2004 or SAP ERP 6.0
„ For travel management: SAP ERP 6.0
„ ESS/MSS
„ For Analytics
- SAP for Transactional Reports (ALV)
- mySAP ERP 2004 or SAP ERP 6.0 for Analytic Reporting (BI)
- SAP BW 3.5* or SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0*

* Supporting all BI data sources, including R/3

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 What
OtherWe’ll Cover
Options for…
Accessing Financials Reports
Other Options to Access
Financials Reports

Reports as iViews in Roles

Reports in Duet™
Embedding Reports in Web Applications

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 Embedded Reports in Closing Cockpit
(Available from SAP ERP 6.0.4)

Contextual assistance area in web

applications (Closing Cockpit)

SAP NetWeaver BI Front-End

with Real-Time Access to Close
Status and Related Key Figures
Include reports that provide
details of close progress
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 Embedded Reports in Express Planning (from
SAP ERP 6.0, SP8)

Contextual assistance area in

Web applications (here Express
Planning)

Include reports that provide

context for planning

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 Express Planning: Calling a BW Report as a
URL

Generic call of services via URL (e.g., SAP

NetWeaver BI queries, BI-BPS Web
Interfaces, intranet or Internet pages, third-
party applications)

© SAP 2008 / 68
 What We’ll Cover …

Introduction
FI Reports: What’s in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in SAP NetWeaver BI?
Role-Based Access to Financials Reports
Other Options for Accessing Financials Reports
Delivering and Printing Reports
Wrap-up

© SAP 2008 / 69
 What
OtherWe’ll Cover
Options for…Accessing Financials Reports
Deliver and Print Reports

Formatted Reports
XBRL Reporting

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 Enterprise Reporting Based on SAP
NetWeaver
SAP Business Explorer
Reporting
„ Structured, and easy-to-consume
„ Easy navigation, and calculations
„ Web based, or Excel; PDF*
Ideal for operational reporting
Central Security and Control • Design and Publishing • Printing • Scalability and Performance
SAP NetWeaver BI Server
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Formatted Reporting
„ Highly formatted reporting*
„ Boardroom quality reporting*
Ideal for formal presentations,
or for regulatory reporting
Broadcasting
„ Email distribution
„ Targeted distribution to portal
„ As offline documents or “live”
links
Ideal for easy distribution, and
for ad hoc sharing
Any System*
* New with SAP NetWeaver 7.0
 User Experience: Formatted Reporting and
Printing
Generated Web-Report
BEx Report Designer
PDF-based printing

„ Conversion of SAP NetWeaver BI report to PDF

„ Font styles and colors
enables printing
„ Numerous layout options „ Available for BEx Web Query, Report, or Web
„ Integration of texts, pictures, and charts Application
„ Integration with Adobe Document Service
„ …
„ …

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 Creation of Formatted SAP NetWeaver BI
Reports: Cash Flow Statement
Step 1: Set up Query in Query Designer
1.1 Create Row and Column Structure 1.2 Use Cell-editor to calculate value changes
and Select Items of relevant Balance Sheet items

Step 2: Report Designer Step 3: Execute as usual Web Report

2.1 Include Query as Data Provider and
edit layout/colors/texts, etc.

Execute

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 Formatted Reporting
(Available from SAP ERP 6.0.3)

¾ Balance sheet - example of a formatted report.

¾ Ready for WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) printout.

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 What
OtherWe’ll Cover
Options for…Accessing Financials Reports
Deliver and Print Reports

Formatted Reports
XBRL Reporting

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 What Is XBRL ?

„ What is XBRL ?
„ XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is a standard for the description of the
semantics of an XML document.
„ It is mainly used for XML documents containing financial reports.
„ The semantics of the XML document are described in so-called taxonomies.
„ An XML document which complies with the XBRL specification is called an XBRL instance
document — it must have a reference to a specific XBRL taxonomy.
„ What is an XBRL Taxonomy ?
„ An XBRL taxonomy defines the items allowed in an XBRL instance document.
It consists of a set of XML schemas (XSD and XML files)
„ Standard XBRL taxonomies are defined by:
– Regulatory authorities (e.g., US SEC, National Banks)
– National or international standards boards (FASB, IASB)
– Other national or international organizations or XBRL community
„ Standard taxonomies can be found at: http://www.xbrl.org/Taxonomies/. Examples:
– IFRS taxonomy for Financial Statements according to IFRS
– COREP taxonomy for Risk Reporting of banks according to Basel II guidelines
„ Standard taxonomies can be extended for specific industries or by individual corporations.

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 What Can XBRL Be Used for with SAP?

„ What does SAP use XBRL for ?

„ SAP can create XBRL instance documents from any data in SAP NetWeaver
BI.
The main purpose is regulatory reporting.
„ Who can receive or who demands XBRL documents ?
„ Banking supervisors (National Banks)
– European Banking supervisors have agreed upon an XBRL taxonomy (COREP) for Risk
Reporting according to Basel II guidelines.
– Data can be delivered from SAP’s Bank Analyzer
„ US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
– Voluntary filing program for XBRL documents ongoing (but not judicially binding)
– Mandatory XBRL filing may come in future.
– Standard taxonomy published for review until April 2008
„ German Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger)
– Financial Statements according to German GAAP (HGB) can be sent by XBRL.
– For XBRL and (native) XML, lower fees are charged than for other formats.

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 SAP ERP XBRL Solution (ERP 6.0.3)

SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 3

BI-Query

Remote Extractor

SAP XBRL XBRL

ERP Solution Report

Periodic Extractor
Supervisors
Report
(Paper, XLS, …) Regulators

BI InfoCube

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 XBRL Data Basis

An XBRL Data Basis defines the source of data for XBRL Reporting.
You can define different XBRL data bases for different reporting categories.
One data basis can be used in several reporting categories.
In the XBRL Data basis you
assign:
„ The RFC destination of
the SAP NetWeaver BI
system.
The RFC destination is
only needed if the
XBRL application does
not run in the same
SAP NetWeaver BI
system.
„ One or more BI-
queries, which deliver
the data for XBRL
reporting.
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 What We’ll Cover …

Introduction
FI Reports: What’s in SAP ERP?
FI Reports: What’s in SAP NetWeaver BI?
Role-Based Access to Financials Reports
Other Options for Accessing Financials Reports
Delivering and Printing Reports
Wrap-up

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 Resources: Financial Accounting Reports

http://help.sap.com
„ Financial Statements and the General Ledger
„ Follow SAP ERP Central Component Œ Financials Œ Financial Accounting Œ Financial Information
System (FI)
„ Follow SAP ERP Central Component Œ Financials Œ General Ledger Accounting Œ General Ledger
Accounting (FI-GL) (New)
„ Follow SAP NetWeaver Œ BI Content Œ Financials Œ General Ledger Accounting
„ Accounts Payable and Receivable
„ Follow SAP ERP Central Component Œ Financials Œ Financial Accounting Œ Financial Information
System (FI)
„ Follow SAP NetWeaver Œ BI Content Œ Financials Œ Customer/Vendor Analysis
„ Assets
„ Follow SAP ERP Central Component Œ Financials Œ Financial Accounting Œ Asset Accounting (FI-
AA) ΠInformation System
„ Follow SAP NetWeaver Œ BI Content Œ Financials Œ Asset Accounting

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 Resources: Management Accounting Reports

http://help.sap.com
„ Inventory Accounting
„ Follow SAP ERP Central Component Œ Financials Œ Controlling Œ Product Cost
Controlling (CO-PC)
„ Follow SAP NetWeaver Œ BI Content Œ Financials Œ Controlling > Product Cost
Controlling
„ Management Accounting
„ Follow SAP ERP Central Component Œ Financials Œ Controlling Œ Cost Center
Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) or Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA)
„ Follow SAP NetWeaver Œ BI Content Œ Financials Œ Controlling > Overhead Cost
Controlling
„ Follow SAP ERP Central Component Œ Financials Œ Controlling Œ Profitability
Analysis (CO-PA)
„ Follow SAP NetWeaver Œ BI Content Œ Financials Œ Controlling > Profitability
Analysis

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 Other Resources

Financials Expert
„ Janet Salmon, “Part 1: Should Your Financials Team Consider the Portal?”
(Financials Expert, January 2008).
„ Janet Salmon, “Part 2: Should Your Financials Team Consider the Portal?”
(Financials Expert, March 2008).
„ Janet Salmon, “Express Planning Gives Managers Access to Plan Data in
Multiple Systems,” (Financials Expert, Volume 5, Issue 1).

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 7 Key Points to Take Home

„ SAP delivers sample reports in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BI for all
areas of Financials. Since SAP ERP is built on SAP NetWeaver, the
architecture includes the BI platform as an option for reporting.
„ Role-based access to reports (transaction PFCG) can be used to control
the reports that a user sees in his menu and the authorizations he has
within the reports.
„ From SAP ERP 6.0, SP8 you can move these roles to a portal
environment. SAP delivers many sample roles for Financials and an
upload tool to migrate your own roles to the portal environment.
„ SAP ERP 6.0.3 and SAP ERP 6.0.4 include new reports for Financial
Reporting. A Report Launchpad provides a consistent user experience
across different sorts of reports (ERP, BI, URL).

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 7 Key Points to Take Home (cont.)

„ You can also embed reports as iViews in portal pages and within Web
applications, such as Closing Cockpit or Express Planning, and publish
reports to Outlook in SAP ERP
„ SAP NetWeaver also offers new functions for formatted reporting
„ SAP ERP 6.0.3 includes a taxonomy for XBRL reporting

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 Thank you!

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