SAP S/4HANA Central Finance and Group Reporting


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Put together a centralised repository for all financial information and alter it as you see fit KEY FEATURES ● Expert-led approach to implementing S/4 Central Finance in a wide range of companies. ● Solution-focused responses on Central Finance, Group reporting, BPC, and Fiori. ● Preparation guide for the certification exam and SAP S/4HANA Interview. DESCRIPTION Your SAP S/4HANA journey has just begun. This book details several processes, methods, and expert strategies for integrating central finance into your IT systems, streamlining finance operations, data reporting, and master data preparation. With the help of this book, you'll learn all you need to know to get the most out of SAP S/4HANA Central Finance, SAP Group Reporting, BPC, Fiori, and other cutting-edge technologies. This book includes numerous examples to demonstrate the essentials of SAP S/4HANA Central Finance, SAP Group reporting, BPC, and Fiori. It offers extensive hands-on practice utilizing SAP S/4HANA standards to demonstrate Fiori, BPC, SAP S/4HANA Central Finance, and Group reporting. The book contains many applications and projects from throughout the industry spectrum. Interviewing for a job and passing the SAP Certification exam can be made easier with the help of this book! After reading this book you will be able to perform SAP S/4HANA Central Finance and SAP Group reporting operations. You can also define complex activities in SAP S/4HANA. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Conduct the implementation of Central Finance in your IT environment. ● Consolidate your SAP S/4HANA system's finances. ● Carry out currency conversion, intercompany elimination, financial closure, and reporting. ● Perform a BPC Evaluation. ● Carry out SAP S/4HANA Central Finance and Group reporting functions. ● Utilize Fiori applications to perform SAP S/4HANA operations. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is a must for SAP consultants, architects, and project managers who wish to become proficient in the SAP S/4HANA project life cycle phases. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Key success factors for adopting S/4 Central Finance in any organization 2. Pragmatic approach - BPC, Fiori, S/4 Central Finance and SAP Group reporting 3. Interview questions and answers on BPC, Central Finance and Group reporting




Central Finance and SAP S/4HANA


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SAP S/4HANA Finance for Group Reporting


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Preparing consolidated financial statements for an enterprise with a parent and one or more subsidiaries requires a detailed review of underlying transactions in order to properly reflect results and financial position. For large, integrated, and multinational organizations, likely with millions of transactions, it is imperative that the financial accounting software facilitate this process. This expertly written guide focuses on leveraging SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting. Explore key functionality and how the universal journal has led to the evolution of the group reporting solution. Using a detailed case study, the author discusses configuration and master data and walks the reader through the period-end process for consolidation and explores reports using financial transactions that have already been entered into SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting. Explore reports delivered with SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting. This book is targeted at both finance professionals and the functional consultants who perform the configuration and execution of processes for preparing consolidated financial statements. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, this book covers:

- SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting and the universal journal
- Configuration and master data
- Period-end process for consolidation
- Reporting and analysis




Implementing SAP S/4HANA Finance


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Preparation -- Installation and upgrade -- Customizing for the general ledger -- Customizing for new asset accounting -- Customizing for controlling -- Migration of house bank accounts -- Data migration -- Post migration -- Testing and migration results -- New cash management -- Sap integrated business planning for finance -- SAP Fiori applications -- Impact on general ledger accounting -- Impact on new asset accounting -- Impact on controlling -- Impact on cost center accounting -- Impact on profit center accounting -- Impact on profitability analysis -- Impact on period end closing -- Impact on cash and bank management -- Appendix




Group Reporting with SAP S/4HANA


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Perform financial consolidation in your SAP S/4HANA system! With this guide to SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting, learn about the new group reporting architecture and data model. Configure your master data and integrate transactional data for consolidation using the Data Monitor. Walk through your key consolidation tasks, including currency translation, intercompany elimination, financial close, reporting, and more. This is your comprehensive group reporting resource! In this book, you'll learn about: a. Configuration Set up master data elements and global settings to align with your exact specifications. Configure the Data Monitor dashboard to perform transactional data tasks such as data integration, balance carryforward, and data validation. b. Consolidation Follow step-by-step instructions to run your required consolidation processes. Translate currencies, perform intercompany elimination and matrix consolidation, manage consolidation entries, and execute financial close. c. Reporting Walk through the reporting architecture with CDS views and learn about available reporting tools. Use predefined local and group reports, drill-through functionality, and ad-hoc reporting. Highlights include: 1) Architecture 2) Master data 3) Transactional data 4) Data Monitor 5) Consolidation Monitor 6) Currency translation 7) Intercompany elimination 8) Consolidation of investments 9) Consolidation journal entries 10) Matrix consolidation 11) Financial close 12) Reporting




Configuring Group Reporting with S/4 Hana 1909


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With S/4 HANA Finance 1809, SAP has introduced group reporting, a SAP's consolidation solution. Group reporting's innovations expose the new consolidation solution, which is a hybrid of SAP's EC-CS, BCS and BPC functionalities. You've heard about Universal Journal, single source of truth, real-time processes, and UI improvements, in group reporting, you can leverage all these functionalities without additional acquisition of the software cost. SAP group reporting facilitates continuous accounting and consolidation process in a single instance, thus reduces the financial closing manhours. With the tight integration of ACDOCA table and flexible upload functionalities help smooth transition of consolidation unit's local data to consolidation data for financial consolidation. With the S/4 HANA 1909 release, SAP enhanced group reporting functionalities with new fire tiles. Configuring Group Reporting with S/4 HANA 1909 covers end to end solution with one complete consolidation of financial statements of integrated and non-integrated units.Highlights of Configuring Group Reporting with S/4 HANA 1909:?Consolidation chart of account?Integration of consolidation units and consolidation group?Local and global accounting?Currency translation, ?Interunit / intercompany eliminations?Reclassification?Elimination and adjustment of intercompany investment?Calculation of goodwill?Calculation of minority interest,?Cash flow statement, statement of equity, statement of comprehensive income, consolidation of balance sheet and income statement?SAP Fiori Apps




SAP S/4HANA Finance


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What will your financial transformation look like? This introduction to SAP S/4HANA Finance shows you next-generation finance in the new suite: financial accounting, management accounting, risk management, financial planning, and more. Consider how each process works in SAP S/4HANA, and explore the SAP Fiori apps that help you meet today's business user and reporting requirements. From previewing project planning to navigating deployment options, take your first steps toward financial transformation! a. The Basics Explore financial transformation with SAP's new platform. Discover the system, the database, the UI, and more--all from a business perspective. Then, understand how an SAP S/4HANA Finance implementation would impact your organization. b. Core Processes Financial transformation affects every process. See what SAP S/4HANA does for management accounting, treasury and risk management, financial close, consolidation, reporting, and more. c. From Planning to Go-Live Get a head start on project preparation! See how SAP S/4HANA Finance fits into your IT landscape, and explore your deployment options: on-premise, hybrid, or cloud. Highlights Include: 1) Universal Journal 2) SAP HANA 3) Management accounting 4) Financial close and consolidation 5) Reporting and analytics 6) Treasury and Risk Management 7) SAP Fiori applications 8) Deployment and adoption 9) Financial transformation 10) SAP S/4HANA




Central Finance and SAP S/4HANA


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"Start your CFin project! Learn how Central Finance fits in to your IT landscape, and how it will impact your finance processes, reporting, and master data. Get step-by-step instructions for implementation and tips for project management from this one-stop shop for everything Central Finance!"--




First Steps in SAP S/4HANA Finance


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SAP’s latest product, SAP S/4HANA, is revolutionizing how we approach finance by re-architecting data persistency and by merging accounts and cost elements. This book offers a fundamental introduction to SAP S/4HANA Finance, explaining how Accounting and Controlling have merged, and how they integrate with planning and group reporting. Learn about the new con-figuration options, updated data models, and what this means for reporting in the future. Obtain a first-hand look at the new user interfaces in SAP Fiori. Review the new universal journal, asset accounting, material ledger, and margin analysis functionality. Examine the steps required to migrate to SAP S/4HANA Finance and walk through the deployment options. Explore the new possibilities for reporting and analysis. Learn how to set up roles and business catalogs to provide users with access to the Fiori applications, and gain an understanding of the various types of applications. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, this book helps readers to: - Understand the basics of SAP S/4HANA Finance - Explore the new architecture, updated configuration options, and SAP Fiori - Examine SAP S/4HANA Finance migration steps - Understand alternative deployment options, such as a central finance deployment




Group Reporting with SAP S/4HANA


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Get financial consolidation up and running! With this comprehensive guide, learn how to set up and use SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting. Organize your financials information by configuring global settings, master data, and transaction data. Walk through each group reporting process--intercompany elimination, consolidation of investments, and matrix consolidation--following step-by-step instructions for setup and execution. With details on consolidation reporting, this is the only book you need for a successful corporate close! In this book, you'll learn about: a. System Setup Discover how group reporting fits into the architecture of SAP S/4HANA Finance. Customize key settings to suit your business: consolidation units, financial statement items, journal entries, data validation rules, and more. b. Consolidation Processes Perform a successful consolidation! Set up and run critical processes such as currency translation, intercompany profit elimination, and consolidation of investments using the Data Monitor and the Consolidation Monitor. c. Reporting Once your consolidation is complete, it's time to report your results. Use reporting rules to create flexible custom reports, and then explore reporting tools in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office, and SAP Analytics Cloud. Highlights include: 1) Master and transaction data 2) Currency translation 3) Intercompany elimination 4) Consolidation of investments 5) Consolidation entries 6) Matrix consolidation 7) Data Monitor 8) Consolidation Monitor 9) Reporting items and rules 10) Consolidation reporting