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Financial Accounting enables accounting and financial close for multiple standards.
All financial transactions are recorded in general ledgers and relevant sub-ledgers
Capabilities:
Capabilities
Capabilities
Capabilites
Capbilities
Process description
Universal Journal is the system of records for all financial transactions in the
organization
All components in SAP which generate financial postings integrate with
Universal Journal
Financial data of a profit centre always reconciles with General Ledger data
Flexibility to use profit centres along with other reporting dimensions available
in Universal Journal such as Segment
Accounts Receivables
Process description
Credit Management
Process description
Credit management supports credit data maintenance for business partners
and credit checks during sales transactions
It also supports credit analysis, determination of credit score, processing of
external credit information
FSCM can be deployed in decentralized environment such as sales is
performed in another system
Collections Management
Process description
Process description
Reduce processing time for dispute cases for under payments or non-
payments
FSCM dispute management process in SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC is the
same
Accounts Payables
Process description
Sub-ledger data for vendor always reconciles with Universal Journal/ General
Ledger data
Flexibility to define multiple GL accounts for payables as per reporting
requirement
Process description
New application ‘BAM‘ for bank master with modified data model
BAM has two solutions scope – BAM and BAM lite
BAM lite with NWBC front end when ‘Cash management powered by HANA’
is not in scope
BAM when used with Cash Management powered by HANA and have Fiori
front end and with additional features such as workflow during creation,
review, closure, BCM integration for signatories etc
Process description
Bank Communication Management (BCM) is used for managing multiple bank
communication interfaces
BCM provides functionalities related to creation and approval of payment
batch, payment status monitor, bank statement monitor, alert management,
digital signature, etc
Tax Accounting
Process description
Inventory Accounting
Process description
Inventory accounting supports valuation of inventories for day-to-day
accounting and also for month-end adjustment as per legal reporting
requirement
The solution integrates with sales, procurement, production to provide
detailed information related to inventory quantity and valuation
Revenue Accounting
Process description
Process description
A subsidiary ledger that meets the requirement of industry sectors with high
volume of business partners and high number of documents related to
receivables and payables such as retail, bank, transportation, and others
Funds Management
Process description
Control and track the funds requirement of the company against the available
funds
Funds management processes in SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC are same
Real Estate
Process description
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Process description
Travel management processes in SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC are same
However, Concur is the SAP cloud based application which is being used for
travel management and have more functionalities as compared to FI travel
management.
Concur can be integrated with SAP S/4HANA for posting of expense postings
to Universal Journal
Country Localization
Process description
SAP provides multiple country-specific solutions to meet the tax and financial
reporting requirement of country along with sales/ purchase information
Process description
Enables faster decision making with insight to revenue, costs, margin analysis
for various dimensions
Financial close in SAP provides a set of transactions required for period end
financial adjustment and data entry
SAP supports recording of financial transactions and closure of books for
multiple GAAPs, different fiscal years
Financial close includes transactions from different process areas (FI, CO,
MM, SD,…) which are required to be executed in pre-defined sequence
Central Finance
Process description
Supports all functions required for overhead controlling within the organization
Process description
Supports tracking costs and overhead controlling for specific tasks within the
organization
Provides flexibility to segregate overheads of special initiatives from regular
departmental overheads for the purpose of reporting
Process description
Product Cost Planning is used to estimate costs of materials and set standard
prices for materials
Supports material cost estimate with and without quantity structure i.e. bill of
material and recipe/ routing
Integrated solution for product cost estimation based on logistics master data
and prices from cost accounting
Transparent product cost data in system and eliminates excel based manual
effort
Process description
Product cost by sales order is used to calculate actual and plan cost for sales
orders (COGS) based on sales orders
COGS includes material cost, overhead costs for direct activities, overhead
for indirect activities, sales overheads
Supports calculation of customer work-in-process, revenue recognition,
customer order related provisions via result analysis
Project costs & revenues is used to calculate actual and plan cost/ revenues
of projects
Supports all types of project i.e.. customer projects, overhead projects,
investment projects
Supports calculation of revenue recognition, cost provisions, capital WIP,
customer WIP based on types of projects
Process description
Process Description
It provides the user with important current data which can be analyzed quickly
It reduces the optimal decision making time
Process Description
Transaction Manager
Process Description
The Exposure Management 1.0 is no longer the target architecture and has
been disabled technically. Exposure Management 2.0 is the more flexible and
comprehensive successor application
Cash Operations
Process Description
Cash Operation covers analysis of cash position i.e. cash available with banks
Liquidity analysis and planning for short term liquidity forecasts
In-house Cash
Process Description
Process Description
Market risk analyser is used for financial trade positions evaluations i.e..
market valuations of financial positions, risk calculation and returns
Valuations can be based on actual market data or simulated market data
S/4HANA Business Benefits
Helps to monitor the credit risk exposure and minimize default risks
One Exposure
Process Description
The One Exposure from Operations hub is a real-time collection point and
storage location for operational data that is relevant for managing cash and
liquidity
The provision of the data in the One Exposure from Operations hub facilitates
funds planning and risk management across multiple companies
Flexibility to get exposure related data within the system or from single/
multiple external systems
Improved efficiency in financial risk management with real time data
Liquidity Management
Process Description
Liquidity planning is used to forecast liquidity surpluses and deficits for the
planning periods
New application ‘cash management powered by SAP HANA’ and ‘BPC for
S/4HANA’ for liquidity planning
Liquidity planning is based on embedded BI
Classical liquidity planning is obsolete
Portfolio Analyser
Process Description
Accounting Analyser
Process Description
Real time availability of master data and actual data for the purpose of
planning and monitoring
Fiori and MS office based front end for ease of working
Improve planning process with workflow, work status, audit features
Process Description
Real time availability of master data and actual data for the purpose of
planning
MS office based front end for ease of working
Supports scenario based planning and possible to do what-if-analysis
Simplification in SAP S/4HANA
Process Description
Profit & loss planning processes consists of planning and forecasting related
transactions for P&L accounts with required dimensions such as segment,
profit centre, functional area, etc
Process Description
Balance sheet planning processes consists of planning and forecasting
related transactions for balance sheet accounts with required dimensions
such as segment, profit centre
Real time availability of master data and actual data for the purpose of
planning
Fiori and MS office based front end for ease of working
Reduce planning cycle time with embedded calculations
Investment Planning
Process Description
Liquidity Planning
Process Description
Liquidity planning is used to forecast liquidity surpluses and deficits for the
planning periods
New application ‘cash management powered by SAP HANA’ and ‘BPC for
S/4HANA’ for liquidity planning
Liquidity planning is based on embedded BI
Classical liquidity planning is obsolete
Cash Flow Planning
Process Description
Cash flow planning refers to planned cash flow statement based on balance
sheet plan
In the context of cash flow planning, it is assumed that cash management is
not used in SAP S/4HANA
Real time availability of master data and actual data for the purpose of
planning
Fiori and MS office based front end for ease of working
Process Description
New SAP Fiori Apps area available to create master project and financial
plans
Embedded analytics can be used for reporting of financial planning data from
SAP CO and CPM
Process Description
Real time availability of master data and actual data for the purpose of
planning and monitoring
Fiori and MS office based front end for ease of working
Improve planning process with workflow, work status, audit features
Process Description
Process Description
New application ‘BPC for S/4HANA’ available for inter/ intra company
reconciliation
EC-CS provides the consolidation functionality. However, it is not on SAP
target architecture in long term
Central finance component of SAP S/4HANA can support to aggregate the
data in real time or near real time if multiple ERP systems are used in the
organization. Aggregated data becomes the source data for inter/ intra
company elimination and used for financial consolidation
EC-CS Consolidation
Process Description
Treasury & Risk Treasury & Risk Management helps manage cash flow, liquidity, and
Management (TRM) financial risk management within the organization
Joint Venture Accounting Joint venture accounting is the module to capture the financial
(JVA) transactions related to venture partners
Revenue Accounting & RAR is an application designed for revenue recognition for IFRS 15
Reporting (RAR) and other GAAPs
Business Planning & BPC is embedded in S/4HANA and have access to real time
Consolidation(BPC) availability of master data and actual financial data
Financial Services FSN is a network solution which connects bank with their corporate
Network (FSN) customers
Fiori apps for finance are available for various financial transactions such as
day-to-day GL transactions, management, periodic transactions, and
reporting
Fiori apps can be viewed
at https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/ through
the selection line of business ‘finance’ and the required backend
product/version
A few examples of Fiori apps for finance are:
o Journal entry
o Financial statement
o Plan / actual data for market segments
o Approval of vendor payments
o Schedule and manage automatic payments
o Analyse clearing locks and reasons in FI-CA
o Manage dispute cases for customers
o Approval of bank payments
o Event-based revenue recognition
Accounting for Incoming Sales Orders - report of all incoming sales orders
for a given fiscal period.
Cash Flow Comparison - Actual/Forecast – report to compare actual cash
flows with the forecasted cash flows on a specified value date. Also possible
to compare different versions of the forecasted cash flow.
Transactional apps