SAP S/4HANA Finance: An Introduction, 2nd Edition
- Length: 380 pages
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
- Publisher: SAP Press
- Publication Date: 2023-01-26
- ISBN-10: 1493223399
- ISBN-13: 9781493223398
- Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)
Beginning your finance transformation? Looking to learn what SAP S/4HANA has to offer? This book is your starting point for SAP S/4HANA Finance! Learn about the suite’s architecture and explore its capabilities for your core finance processes: financial accounting, management accounting, treasury and risk management, planning, consolidation, and close. Unlock enterprise-wide finance reporting, assess your deployment options, and design your finance project with this introductory guide!
- Discover what SAP S/4HANA Finance offers your organization
- Explore key finance processes: accounting, controlling, financial close, and more
- Choose a deployment model that fits your needs
Finance Capabilities
See how your core processes run in SAP S/4HANA. Walk through accounts payable and receivable, profitability analysis, cash management, financial planning, entity and corporate close, and more. Discover how the Universal Journal removes data siloes and transforms finance.
Reporting and Analytics
Establish an enterprise-wide reporting strategy! Learn about requirements for tax reporting and statutory reporting, and then explore tools to report and analyze data in SAP S/4HANA, such as SAP Fiori apps and SAP Analytics Cloud.
Implementation Planning
Take your first steps toward SAP S/4HANA Finance. Consider your deployment options: on-premise or cloud? Big-bang or phased approach? What about Central Finance? Design your future landscape and build your business case with this guide.
- Financial accounting
- Management accounting
- Treasury and risk management
- Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
- Financial close and consolidation
- Universal Journal
- Reporting and analytics
- Implementation project planning
- Deployment options
- Architecture
- SAP Fiori applications
Dear Reader Notes on Usage Table of Contents Preface The Purpose of This Book Target Audience The Structure of This Book Acknowledgments 1 Finance Transformation 1.1 How to Embrace Finance Transformation 1.2 Why Is Finance Transformation Important? 1.2.1 Staying Ahead of Competitors 1.2.2 Meeting Compliance Requirements 1.3 How to Measure Shareholder Value 1.4 How to Increase Shareholder Value 1.5 Finance Operate Model 1.6 Summary 2 Architecture 2.1 The System: SAP S/4HANA 2.1.1 SAP S/4HANA Finance 2.1.2 SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server 2.1.3 SAP Master Data Governance 2.1.4 SAP Business Technology Platform 2.2 The Database: SAP HANA 2.3 The Table Structure: Universal Journal 2.4 The User Experience: SAP Fiori 2.4.1 Transactional Applications 2.4.2 Analytical Applications 2.4.3 Fact Sheet Applications 2.5 The Network: Peripheral Cloud Applications 2.5.1 SAP Analytics Cloud 2.5.2 SAP Ariba 2.5.3 SAP Concur 2.5.4 SAP Fieldglass 2.5.5 SAP SuccessFactors 2.6 Summary 3 Financial Accounting 3.1 Finance Master Data 3.1.1 Company Code 3.1.2 Chart of Accounts 3.1.3 Organizational Structure and Hierarchies 3.1.4 Business Partners: Customers, Vendors, and Banks 3.1.5 Assets Master Data 3.2 General Ledger 3.2.1 Process Overview 3.2.2 Universal Journal 3.2.3 Finance and Controlling Merged into One 3.2.4 Parallel and Extension Ledgers 3.2.5 General Ledger Reporting 3.3 Accounts Payable 3.3.1 Process Overview 3.3.2 Vendor Invoice Management 3.3.3 Integration with SAP Ariba 3.3.4 Payables Management and Reporting 3.4 Accounts Receivable 3.4.1 Process Overview 3.4.2 Post Accounts Receivable Transaction 3.4.3 Credit, Collections, and Dispute Management 3.4.4 Accounts Receivable Reporting 3.4.5 Receivables Management Reporting 3.4.6 Receivables Management Dashboard 3.5 Asset Accounting 3.5.1 Process Overview 3.5.2 Asset Parallel Ledger 3.5.3 Asset Management and Reporting 3.6 Central Processing 3.6.1 Central Payment 3.6.2 Central Treasury 3.6.3 Central Asset Accounting 3.7 Reporting 3.7.1 Flexible Reporting 3.7.2 Reporting on Various Hierarchies 3.8 Summary 4 Management Accounting 4.1 Cost Element Accounting 4.1.1 Process Overview 4.1.2 Primary and Secondary Cost Elements 4.1.3 General Ledger Account Types 4.1.4 Profit and Loss Account Types 4.1.5 Cost Element Accounting Reporting 4.2 Overhead Cost Controlling 4.2.1 Process Overview 4.2.2 Cost Allocations 4.2.3 Internal Orders 4.2.4 Project Cost Reporting 4.2.5 Flexible Hierarchies 4.2.6 Overhead Cost Controlling Reporting 4.3 Product Cost Controlling 4.3.1 Process Overview 4.3.2 Costing Runs 4.3.3 COGS Split by Cost Component 4.3.4 Work in Process Analysis 4.3.5 Production Variances Split by Variance Category 4.3.6 Manage Material Valuations 4.3.7 Material Inventory Values: Balance Summary 4.3.8 Material Price Analysis 4.3.9 Production Cost Analysis 4.3.10 Product Cost Controlling Reporting 4.4 Material Ledger and Actual Costing 4.4.1 Process Overview 4.4.2 Transfer Pricing and Multiple Valuation Approaches 4.4.3 Actual Costing Runs 4.4.4 Material Ledger Reporting 4.5 Margin Analysis 4.5.1 Process Overview 4.5.2 Additional Quantity Fields 4.5.3 Combined Profitability Analysis 4.5.4 Attributed Profitability Segment 4.5.5 Real-Time Derivation of Market Segment 4.5.6 Profitability Reporting 4.6 Central Projects 4.7 Summary 5 Treasury and Risk Management 5.1 Cash Management 5.1.1 Process Overview 5.1.2 Liquidity Forecasting 5.1.3 Cash and Liquidity Management 5.1.4 In-House Cash 5.1.5 Advanced Payment Management 5.1.6 Cash Management Reporting 5.2 Liquidity Planning and Forecasting 5.2.1 Process Overview 5.2.2 Liquidity Planning Objects 5.2.3 Liquidity Planning Data 5.2.4 Liquidity Planning and Forecasting Reporting 5.3 Transaction and Risk Management 5.3.1 Process Overview 5.3.2 Transaction Manager 5.3.3 Risk Analyzers 5.3.4 Transaction and Risk Reporting 5.4 Bank Account Management 5.4.1 Process Overview 5.4.2 Bank Account Master Data 5.4.3 Bank Account Hierarchy and Bank Account Groups 5.4.4 Bank Account Management Workflow 5.4.5 Cash Concentration 5.4.6 Bank Reconciliation 5.4.7 Bank Communication Management 5.4.8 Bank Account Management Reporting 5.5 Summary 6 Financial Planning 6.1 Financial Planning and Analysis 6.1.1 Extended Planning and Analysis 6.1.2 Strategic Planning 6.1.3 Budgeting 6.1.4 Forecasting 6.1.5 Challenges 6.2 Planning Products 6.2.1 SAP Analytics Cloud 6.2.2 SAP BPC, Version for SAP BW/4HANA 6.2.3 Hybrid Deployment 6.3 Planning Scenarios 6.3.1 Profit and Loss Statement Planning 6.3.2 Sales and Cost of Goods Sold Planning 6.3.3 Overhead Expense Planning 6.3.4 Capital Expense Planning 6.3.5 Cost Center Planning 6.3.6 Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Planning 6.4 Summary 7 Financial Close and Consolidation 7.1 Entity Close 7.1.1 Process Overview 7.1.2 Challenges in the Typical Closing Process 7.1.3 Advanced Financial Closing 7.1.4 Emerging Technologies 7.2 Settlements and Assessments 7.2.1 Process Overview 7.2.2 Universal Allocation 7.2.3 Planning Engine 7.2.4 Settlements 7.3 Intercompany Accounting, Reconciliation, and Eliminations 7.3.1 Process Overview 7.3.2 Stock Transport Orders 7.3.3 Intercompany Drop Shipment Scenarios 7.3.4 Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation 7.3.5 Intercompany Eliminations 7.4 Currency Translation 7.4.1 Process Overview 7.4.2 Currencies and Exchange Rates 7.4.3 Post Currency Adjustments 7.4.4 Foreign Currency Revaluation 7.4.5 Currency Translations 7.5 Group Reporting 7.5.1 Process Overview 7.5.2 Consolidated Reporting 7.5.3 SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office 7.5.4 SAP Analytics Cloud 7.6 Summary 8 Reporting and Analytics 8.1 Enterprise-Wide Finance Reporting 8.1.1 Reporting Strategy 8.1.2 Reporting Organization 8.2 Tax and Compliance Reporting 8.2.1 Tax Reporting 8.2.2 Advanced Compliance Reporting 8.2.3 Manage Withholding Tax 8.3 Statutory Reporting 8.3.1 XBRL Reporting 8.3.2 Other Reporting Requirements 8.3.3 SAP Disclosure Management 8.4 Reporting and Analytics Tools 8.4.1 SAP Fiori 8.4.2 SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office 8.4.3 SAP Analytics Cloud 8.4.4 Predictive Analytics 8.4.5 Artificial Intelligence 8.5 Summary 9 Deployment Options 9.1 On-Premise versus Public or Private Cloud 9.1.1 On-Premise 9.1.2 SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition 9.1.3 SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition 9.1.4 Hybrid Cloud 9.2 Single Instance versus Multiple Instances 9.2.1 Single Global Instance 9.2.2 Multiple Instances 9.3 Rollout Options 9.3.1 Big Bang Approach 9.3.2 Phased Rollout by Functionality 9.3.3 Phased Rollout by Geography or Business Unit 9.3.4 Rollout Strategy: Decision-Making Approach 9.4 Central Finance 9.4.1 SAP S/4HANA Migration Options 9.4.2 Use Cases 9.4.3 Deployment Options 9.4.4 Limitations 9.5 Standalone Treasury 9.5.1 SAP S/4HANA Migration Options 9.5.2 Use Cases 9.5.3 Deployment Options 9.5.4 Limitations 9.6 SAP Master Data Governance 9.6.1 SAP S/4HANA Migration Options 9.6.2 Use Cases 9.6.3 Deployment Options 9.6.4 Limitations 9.7 SAP Fiori 9.8 Summary 10 Planning an SAP S/4HANA Finance Project 10.1 Designing the Landscape of the Future 10.1.1 Business Climate 10.1.2 Other Parallel Initiatives 10.1.3 Business Segments and Markets 10.1.4 Organization Stakeholders 10.1.5 Transformation Roadmap 10.2 Anticipating Project Complexity 10.2.1 Global Rollout 10.2.2 Organizational Change Management 10.2.3 Internal Staffing and Readiness 10.2.4 Data and Legacy Systems 10.3 Building a Business Case for Your Organization 10.3.1 Cost/Benefit Analysis 10.3.2 Change Management and User Experience 10.3.3 Reporting 10.4 Choosing an Implementation Approach 10.4.1 Waterfall versus Agile versus Hybrid Agile 10.4.2 Phased versus Big Bang 10.4.3 Phase 0 Assessment 10.5 Choosing a Partner/System Integrator 10.6 Summary The Authors Index Service Pages Legal Notes
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