Maunil Mehta, Usman Aijaz, Sam Parikh

SAP S/4HANA Finance

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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!

In this book, you'll learn about:

a. 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.

b. 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.

c. 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.

Highlights include:

1) Financial accounting
2) Management accounting
3) Treasury and risk management
4) Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
5) Financial close and consolidation
6) Universal Journal
7) Reporting and analytics
8) Implementation project planning
9) Deployment options
10) Architecture
11) SAP Fiori applications

Produktdetails

• SAP PRESS Englisch
• Verlag: Rheinwerk Verlag / SAP PRESS
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 459/22339
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 994g
• ISBN-13: 9781493223398
• ISBN-10: 1493223399
• Artikelnr.: 66141366

Autorenporträt

Maunil Mehta is a partner at Deloitte Consulting. He has more than 19 years of experience helping Fortune 500 organizations define and achieve technology-enabled finance transformation, and currently leads the SAP Finance Transformation practice at Deloitte.

Inhaltsangabe

... Preface ... 15

... The Purpose of This Book ... 15

... Target Audience ... 15

... The Structure of This Book ... 16

... Acknowledgments ... 17

1 ... Finance Transformation ... 21

1.1 ... How to Embrace Finance Transformation ... 21

1.2 ... Why Is Finance Transformation Important? ... 22

1.3 ... How to Measure Shareholder Value ... 24

1.4 ... How to Increase Shareholder Value ... 27

1.5 ... Finance Operate Model ... 30

1.6 ... Summary ... 30

2 ... Architecture ... 33

2.1 ... The System: SAP S/4HANA ... 33

2.2 ... The Database: SAP HANA ... 39

2.3 ... The Table Structure: Universal Journal ... 41

2.4 ... The User Experience: SAP Fiori ... 43

2.5 ... The Network: Peripheral Cloud Applications ... 48

2.6 ... Summary ... 57

3 ... Financial Accounting ... 59

3.1 ... Finance Master Data ... 59

3.2 ... General Ledger ... 64

3.3 ... Accounts Payable ... 72

3.4 ... Accounts Receivable ... 75

3.5 ... Asset Accounting ... 91

3.6 ... Central Processing ... 103

3.7 ... Reporting ... 107

3.8 ... Summary ... 108

4 ... Management Accounting ... 109

4.1 ... Cost Element Accounting ... 110

4.2 ... Overhead Cost Controlling ... 118

4.3 ... Product Cost Controlling ... 127

4.4 ... Material Ledger and Actual Costing ... 141

4.5 ... Margin Analysis ... 149

4.6 ... Central Projects ... 157

4.7 ... Summary ... 158

5 ... Treasury and Risk Management ... 159

5.1 ... Cash Management ... 160

5.2 ... Liquidity Planning and Forecasting ... 170

5.3 ... Transaction and Risk Management ... 175

5.4 ... Bank Account Management ... 183

5.5 ... Summary ... 194

6 ... Financial Planning ... 197

6.1 ... Financial Planning and Analysis ... 198

6.2 ... Planning Products ... 204

6.3 ... Planning Scenarios ... 223

6.4 ... Summary ... 229

7 ... Financial Close and Consolidation ... 231

7.1 ... Entity Close ... 232

7.2 ... Settlements and Assessments ... 241

7.3 ... Intercompany Accounting, Reconciliation, and Eliminations ... 250

7.4 ... Currency Translation ... 262

7.5 ... Group Reporting ... 269

7.6 ... Summary ... 279

8 ... Reporting and Analytics ... 281

8.1 ... Enterprise-Wide Finance Reporting ... 281

8.2 ... Tax and Compliance Reporting ... 285

8.3 ... Statutory Reporting ... 292

8.4 ... Reporting and Analytics Tools ... 296

8.5 ... Summary ... 327

9 ... Deployment Options ... 329

9.1 ... On-Premise versus Public or Private Cloud ... 329

9.2 ... Single Instance versus Multiple Instances ... 335

9.3 ... Rollout Options ... 338

9.4 ... Central Finance ... 344

9.5 ... Standalone Treasury ... 353

9.6 ... SAP Master Data Governance ... 357

9.7 ... SAP Fiori ... 360

9.8 ... Summary ... 360

10 ... Planning an SAP S/4HANA Finance Project ... 361

10.1 ... Designing the Landscape of the Future ... 361

10.2 ... Anticipating Project Complexity ... 364

10.3 ... Building a Business Case for Your Organization ... 369

10.4 ... Choosing an Implementation Approach ... 374

10.5 ... Choosing a Partner/System Integrator ... 379

10.6 ... Summary ... 380

... The Authors ... 381

... Index ... 383