Beschreibung
SAP ERP customers, take note: If you install SAP S/4HANA Finance but keep running your accounting practices as before, youll be missing out. With this guide to SAP S/4HANA Finances innovations, uncover the fundamental changes that can transform your finance organization. Youve heard about Universal Journal, real-time processes, and UI improvementsnow learn how these changes will actually impact your accounting practices. From the redesigned steering model and unified planning to consolidation and real-time close, see where new processes affect your business users and how system efficiencies benefit your bottom line.Highlights include:1) Universal Journal2) Local and global accounting3) Financial process optimization4) SAP Fiori and real-time data5) Key figures for operational reporting6) Real-time financial close7) Predictive accounting8) Unified planning model9) Asset accounting10) Cost object controlling and actual costing11) Group reporting12) Cash management
Autorenportrait
Janet Salmon is a regular speaker on Controlling at conferences, including ASUG, SAP Financials (U.S. and Europe), and Mastering SAP Financials (Australia) with high speaker ratings. Janet joined SAP in 1992, working first as a translator and then as a technical writer for product cost controlling. She began working as a product manager/solution manager for the product costing area in 1995 and gradually began covering profitability analysis and overhead controlling.
Inhalt
... Objective of This Book ... 17
... How to Read This Book ... 18
... Acknowledgments ... 23
... The Changing Role of Finance ... 26
... Finance with SAP ... 37
... Summary ... 48
1.1 ... Designing a Steering Model for Your Business ... 50
1.2 ... The Universal Journal ... 55
1.3 ... Reporting Dimensions in Detail ... 61
1.4 ... Extending the Steering Model ... 79
1.5 ... Changing the Steering Model ... 83
1.6 ... Summary ... 87
2.1 ... Controlling and Global Business Management ... 91
2.2 ... Accounting and Local Business Management ... 104
2.3 ... Global Value Chains and Local Reporting ... 108
2.4 ... Summary ... 117
3.1 ... Industry Solutions and SAP S/4HANA ... 120
3.2 ... Controlling ... 122
3.3 ... Financial Operations ... 131
3.4 ... Summary ... 147
4.1 ... Rethinking Business Processes ... 150
4.2 ... Automating Finance Processes ... 163
4.3 ... Redesigning Applications ... 174
4.4 ... Summary ... 182
5.1 ... What Is SAP Fiori? ... 184
5.2 ... First Steps in SAP Fiori ... 187
5.3 ... Using a Virtual Data Model to Access Live Data ... 203
5.4 ... SAP Fiori and the Intelligent Enterprise ... 219
5.5 ... Summary ... 221
6.1 ... Driving Insight to Action ... 224
6.2 ... Using Semantic Tags to Link Accounts with Key Figures ... 231
6.3 ... Redesigning for 360-Degree Reporting ... 238
6.4 ... Summary ... 246
7.1 ... Improving the Hard Close ... 248
7.2 ... New Approaches for a Soft Close ... 258
7.3 ... Summary ... 280
8.1 ... Accounting for Incoming Sales Orders ... 285
8.2 ... Accounting for Statistical Sales Conditions ... 295
8.3 ... Commitment Accounting for Purchase Orders ... 299
8.4 ... Summary ... 301
9.1 ... Moving toward a Unified Planning Model ... 306
9.2 ... SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning ... 313
9.3 ... SAP BPC for SAP S/4HANA ... 319
9.4 ... Planning for the Operational Processes ... 327
9.5 ... Summary ... 341
10.1 ... New Data Structure in Asset Accounting ... 344
10.2 ... Key Figures for Asset Accounting ... 355
10.3 ... Asset Accounting and Controlling ... 357
10.4 ... Summary ... 363
11.1 ... New Data Structure in Inventory Accounting ... 366
11.2 ... Production Cost Analysis ... 379
11.3 ... New Data Structure in Actual Costing ... 388
11.4 ... Summary ... 393
12.1 ... Consolidation Solutions ... 396
12.2 ... Group Reporting Dimensions ... 405
12.3 ... Consolidation Data Sources ... 410
12.4 ... Summary ... 413
13.1 ... Bank Account Management ... 417
13.2 ... Cash Operations ... 420
13.3 ... Liquidity Management ... 427
13.4 ... Summary ... 435
14.1 ... Legal Reporting with SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Compliance Reporting ... 440
14.2 ... Indirect Tax Compliance with SAP Localization Hub, Tax Service ... 446
14.3 ... Summary ... 450
15.1 ... Finance Solutions ... 455
15.2 ... Finance Extensions ... 468
15.3 ... Summary ... 478
... Recent Innovations ... 479
... Planned and Future Innovations ... 481
... Additional Resources ... 486
