Cierre financiero con SAP S/4HANA
¿Listo para cerrar sus libros en SAP S/4HANA? Recorra el proceso de principio a fin, desde el precierre hasta el cierre de fin de año. Revise las actividades específicas para el cierre de fin de período, el cierre de contabilidad de gestión, los informes del grupo y la consolidación. A continuación, optimice la gestión de sus tareas con SAP Advanced Financial Closing. Gestione el cumplimiento y la presentación de informes fiscales, obtenga una vista previa de futuras innovaciones y mucho más con esta guía completa.
- Revise los pasos esenciales para cerrar su contabilidad financiera, el control de gestión y los libros consolidados
- Utilice SAP Advanced Financial Closing para automatizar su cierre
- Analice y supervise las actividades de cierre con aplicaciones y soluciones clave de SAP Fiori, como SAP Analytics Cloud
Aprenderás sobre:
- Conceptos básicos del cierre financiero:
Descubra cómo ha evolucionado el proceso de cierre financiero con SAP S/4HANA y revise un calendario de cierre típico. Configure su estructura organizativa, datos maestros y objetos de coste para adaptarlos a su negocio.
- Flujos de trabajo de cierre:
Recorra el cierre financiero de principio a fin, incluyendo las actividades previas al cierre y las actividades previas, el cierre de fin de mes, el cierre de contabilidad de gestión, el cierre de fin de año y la consolidación. Obtenga consejos y mejores prácticas en cada paso del camino.
- Automatización y generación de informes:
Automatice su cierre con SAP Advanced Financial Closing. Utilice soluciones como SAP Analytics Cloud para generar informes sobre KPI importantes y explore las consideraciones para el cumplimiento de las normas fiscales.
Aspectos Destacados:
- Datos maestros
- Estructura organizativa
- Objetos de coste
- Actividades previas
- Cierre de fin de mes
- Cierre de contabilidad de gestión
- Cierre anual
- Informes y consolidación del grupo
- Cierre financiero avanzado de SAP
- Informes fiscales y cumplimiento normativo
- Analítica
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Financial Close with SAP S/4HANA
Ready to close your books in SAP S/4HANA? Walk through the end-to-end process, from preclose to year-end close. Review specific activities for period-end close, management accounting close, group reporting, and consolidation. Then streamline your task management with SAP Advanced Financial Closing. Manage tax compliance and reporting, preview future innovations, and more with this complete guide!
- Review essential steps to close your financial accounting, controlling, and consolidated ledgers
- Use SAP Advanced Financial Closing to automate your close
- Analyze and monitor close activities with key SAP Fiori apps and solutions like SAP Analytics Cloud
You'll learn about:
- Financial Close Basics:
Discover how the financial close process has evolved with SAP S/4HANA and review a typical closing calendar. Set up your organizational structure, master data, and cost objects to suit your business.
- Close Workflows:
Walk through financial close from end to end, including preclose and upstream activities, month-end close, management accounting close, year-end close, and consolidation. Get tips and best practices each step of the way.
- Automation and Reporting:
Automate your close with SAP Advanced Financial Closing. Use solutions such as SAP Analytics Cloud to report on important KPIs, and explore considerations for tax-related compliance.
Key Highlights:
- Master data
- Organizational structure
- Cost objects
- Upstream activities
- Month-end close
- Management accounting close
- Annual close
- Group reporting and consolidation
- SAP Advanced Financial Closing
- Tax reporting and compliance
- Analytics
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- Preface
- The Objective of This Book
- The Structure of This Book
- Acknowledgments
- Conclusion
- 1 Introduction to SAP S/4HANA and Financial Close
- 1.1 Overview of Financial Close
- 1.2 Historical View of Close in SAP ERP
- 1.3 Evolution of Financial Close
- 1.3.1 Moving to SAP S/4HANA
- 1.3.2 Reimagined Ledgers and the Financial Data Model
- 1.3.3 Technical Debt and Opportunities
- 1.4 Financial Close with SAP S/4HANA
- 1.4.1 Trends in Financial Close
- 1.4.2 Advances with SAP S/4HANA
- 1.5 Typical Closing Calendar, Tasks, and Ownership
- 1.6 Policy, Compliance, and Segregation of Duties
- 1.7 Summary
- 2 Organizational Structures, Master Data, and Cost Objects
- 2.1 Overview of Data Elements
- 2.2 Financial Accounting
- 2.2.1 Company Codes
- 2.2.2 General Ledger Accounts
- 2.2.3 Group Accounts
- 2.2.4 Global Hierarchies and Financial Statements
- 2.2.5 Fixed Assets
- 2.3 Management Accounting
- 2.3.1 Controlling Area
- 2.3.2 Operating Concern
- 2.3.3 Profit Centers
- 2.3.4 Segments
- 2.3.5 Cost Centers
- 2.3.6 Functional Areas
- 2.3.7 Activity Types
- 2.3.8 Global Hierarchies
- 2.3.9 Sets
- 2.3.10 Internal Orders
- 2.3.11 Projects/WBS Elements
- 2.3.12 Statistical Key Figures
- 2.3.13 Profitability Segments
- 2.4 Additional Dependent Master Data and Cost Objects
- 2.4.1 Business Partners
- 2.4.2 Material Master
- 2.4.3 Plant Maintenance and Production/Process Order
- 2.5 Summary
- 3 Financial Accounting Preclose and Upstream Activities
- 3.1 Overview of Upstream Activities
- 3.2 Accounts Payable
- 3.2.1 Procurement Integration
- 3.2.2 Payroll and Benefits
- 3.2.3 Travel and Expense Integration
- 3.2.4 Vendor Invoice Processing and Matching
- 3.2.5 Bank Integration and Vendor Payment Processing
- 3.2.6 Manual and Automated Accruals
- 3.3 Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt
- 3.3.1 Automatic Clearing
- 3.3.2 Processing and Reconciliation
- 3.4 Accounts Receivable
- 3.4.1 Credit Management
- 3.4.2 Sales Quotes, Orders, and Billing
- 3.4.3 External Billing
- 3.4.4 Contract Accounts Receivable
- 3.4.5 Commercial Project Management
- 3.4.6 Manual and Automated Accruals
- 3.4.7 Banking Integration with SAP Cash Application
- 3.4.8 Cash Optimization Business Models
- 3.5 Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and Write-Offs
- 3.5.1 Managing Reserves for Bad Debt
- 3.5.2 Collections Management
- 3.5.3 Dispute Management and Write-Offs
- 3.6 Revenue Recognition
- 3.6.1 Evolution of Automated Revenue Management in SAP
- 3.6.2 Revenue Accounting and Reporting
- 3.6.3 Event-Based Revenue Recognition
- 3.6.4 Contract-Based Revenue Recognition
- 3.6.5 Universal Revenue Recognition
- 3.7 Summary
- 4 Financial Accounting Close
- 4.1 Open and Close Posting Periods
- 4.2 Internal Orders and Project Close
- 4.2.1 Internal Order and Project Completeness Review
- 4.2.2 OpEx Internal Order and Project Settlement
- 4.2.3 CapEx Internal Order and Project Settlement
- 4.3 Fixed-Asset Close and Dependence on Capital Projects
- 4.3.1 Fixed-Asset Completeness Review
- 4.3.2 Assets Under Construction
- 4.3.3 Capitalizing Fixed Assets
- 4.3.4 Depreciation
- 4.3.5 Reviewing and Adjusting Master Data
- 4.3.6 Reporting and Analysis
- 4.4 Intercompany Transaction Management
- 4.4.1 Intercompany Transaction Challenges
- 4.4.2 Transfer Pricing and Integration with Sales and Procurement
- 4.4.3 Classic Intercompany Transactions
- 4.4.4 Advanced Intercompany Sales and Stock Transfers
- 4.4.5 Intercompany Service Transactions
- 4.4.6 Intercompany Reconciliations
- 4.4.7 SAP Intercompany Governance by BlackLine
- 4.5 Currency Revaluation
- 4.5.1 Currency Exchange Rates
- 4.5.2 Advanced Foreign Currency Valuation
- 4.6 Journals and Accruals
- 4.6.1 Manual Journal Entry
- 4.6.2 Journal Entry Approval Workflow
- 4.6.3 Accruals and Auto-Reversal Journal Entries
- 4.6.4 Reclassification Journal Entries
- 4.6.5 SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, Journal Entry Option
- 4.7 Account Reconciliation
- 4.7.1 Balance Sheet Reconciliation
- 4.7.2 Flux Analysis
- 4.7.3 Balance Validation
- 4.7.4 SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine – Account Reconciliation
- 4.8 General Ledger Allocations
- 4.9 Summary
- 5 Management Accounting Close
- 5.1 Inventory Accounting and Costing
- 5.1.1 Inventory Valuation
- 5.1.2 Production Orders and Process Orders
- 5.1.3 Variance Reporting
- 5.1.4 Material Ledger and Actual Costing
- 5.1.5 Monitoring Slow or Obsolete Materials
- 5.2 Management Allocations
- 5.2.1 Assessments
- 5.2.2 Distributions
- 5.2.3 Universal Allocations
- 5.3 Profitability Reporting
- 5.3.1 Margin Analysis
- 5.3.2 Customer and Product Profitability
- 5.3.3 Reporting and Analysis
- 5.4 Summary
- 6 Annual Close
- 6.1 Reviewing and Reconciling Year-End Balances
- 6.1.1 Bank Accounts
- 6.1.2 Payables and Receivables
- 6.1.3 Assets and Inventory
- 6.2 Tax Returns and Compliance
- 6.2.1 Nexus
- 6.2.2 Compliance for Direct Taxes
- 6.2.3 Compliance for Indirect Taxes
- 6.2.4 The Compliance Process
- 6.3 Carrying Forward Balances into the New Fiscal Year
- 6.4 Summary
- 7 Consolidation and Group Closing
- 7.1 Implementation Approaches, Setup, and Data Models
- 7.1.1 Integrated Versus Standalone
- 7.1.2 Recommended Setup
- 7.1.3 Data Model
- 7.2 Data Monitor and Consolidation Monitor
- 7.3 Group Reporting Accounting Integration and Data Collection
- 7.3.1 Accounting Integration
- 7.3.2 Master Data Maintenance
- 7.3.3 Data Collection
- 7.3.4 Validation Rules and Net Income Determination
- 7.3.5 Currency Translation
- 7.4 Consolidation Processing and Reporting
- 7.4.1 Eliminations and Reclassifications
- 7.4.2 Consolidation of Investments
- 7.4.3 Group Journal Entry Posting and Approval
- 7.4.4 Reporting Options
- 7.4.5 Reporting Hierarchies and Reporting Rules
- 7.4.6 Matrix Consolidation Using Profit Center and Segment
- 7.4.7 Integration with Disclosure Management Systems
- 7.5 Summary
- 8 Close Automation and Analytics
- 8.1 SAP Advanced Financial Closing
- 8.1.1 Solution Overview
- 8.1.2 Setup, Authorizations, and Configuration
- 8.1.3 System Integration
- 8.1.4 Designing Your Close Process
- 8.1.5 Closing Execution and Monitoring
- 8.1.6 Advanced Closing Capabilities in SAP S/4HANA
- 8.2 Task Management
- 8.2.1 SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine – Task Management
- 8.2.2 Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Automated Close and SAP Accounting Automation Solutions by BlackLine
- 8.2.3 Integration with SAP Advanced Financial Closing
- 8.3 Business Process Automation and Business Process Mining
- 8.3.1 Automation of Closing Activities
- 8.3.2 Streamlining the Closing Process with SAP Signavio
- 8.4 Close Analytics and KPIs
- 8.4.1 SAP Fiori Analytical Apps
- 8.4.2 Review Booklets
- 8.4.3 Reporting and Analytics Capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud
- 8.5 Summary
- 9 Tax and Compliance Management
- 9.1 Tax Calculation and Provision
- 9.1.1 Direct and Indirect Taxes in SAP S/4HANA
- 9.1.2 Indirect Tax Calculations and Provisions
- 9.1.3 External Tax Engines with SAP S/4HANA
- 9.2 Tax Reporting and Compliance
- 9.2.1 SAP Document and Reporting Compliance
- 9.2.2 SAP Tax Compliance
- 9.2.3 Central Finance
- 9.3 Summary
- 10 Current and Future Innovations
- 10.1 Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI
- 10.1.1 The Promise and Future of AI and Generative AI
- 10.1.2 Use Cases and Direction for SAP Business AI
- 10.1.3 AI and Generative AI from SAP Partners
- 10.2 Universal Parallel Accounting and Value Chain Analysis
- 10.2.1 Universal Parallel Accounting
- 10.2.2 Value Chain Analysis
- 10.3 Sustainability and SAP Green Ledger
- 10.3.1 ESG Regulatory Requirements
- 10.3.2 Carbon Accounting in SAP S/4HANA
- 10.3.3 SAP Green Ledger
- 10.4 Future Capabilities in Financial Close
- 10.4.1 Expected Capabilities in SAP S/4HANA and Beyond
- 10.4.2 Continuous Accounting and Consolidation
- 10.5 Summary
- The Authors
- Index
