SAP S/4HANA brings change to your routine controlling activities. Perform your key tasks in the new environment with this user guide! Get click-by-click instructions for your daily and monthly overhead controlling tasks, and then dive deeper into processes such as make-to-stock/make-to-order scenarios, margin analysis, and investment management. Finally, instructions for intercompany transactions and reporting make this your all-in-one resource! In this book, you'll learn about: a. Master Data See how your financials data is organized in SAP S/4HANA for management accounting. Understand the key reporting entities, from general ledger accounts and cost centers to specific master data for margin analysis. b. Functional Tasks Walk through your core controlling activities for overhead costs, manufacturing costs, sales costs, investments, and intercompany transactions. Learn how to assess each data type with step-by-step guidance and tips from the experts. c. Reporting Discover the reports that gather your cost data for assessment. Get insight into SAP S/4HANA innovations that impact reporting, including the SAP Fiori interface, the virtual data model, global accounting hierarchies, and more. Highlights include: 1) Organizational structures 2) Master data 3) Overhead controlling 4) Production controlling 5) Service controlling 6) Margin analysis 7) Event-based revenue recognition 8) Investment controlling 9) Intercompany scenarios 10) Reporting 11) Universal Journal 12) User interfaces (UI)

"Finance professionals, it's time to simplify your day-to-day. This book walks through your financial accounting tasks, whether you're using SAP GUI transactions or SAP Fiori apps in your SAP S/4HANA system. For each of your core FI business processes-general ledger accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed asset accounting-learn how to complete key tasks, click by click. Complete your FI operations smoothly and efficiently!"--

Revised edition of the author's Controlling with SAP, [2014]

"Interested in what SAP S/4HANA has to offer? Find out with this big-picture guide! Take a tour of SAP S/4HANA functionality for your key lines of business: finance, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, and more. Preview SAP S/4HANA's architecture, and discover your options for reporting, extensions, and adoption. With insights into the latest intelligent technologies, this is your all-in-one SAP S/4HANA starting point!"--

Understand how your controlling processes relate to SAP Discover the many features and functionalities of the Controlling component Up-to-date for enhancement package 5 If you use Controlling in SAP ERP Financials, this book is a must-have resource for your daily work. You ll learn how to perform transactions with fewer steps and less effort, and you ll discover how to troubleshoot minor problems and system issues. In addition to the core areas of Controlling, you ll also find coverage of more advanced topics, such as SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects, the SAP Financials Closing Cockpit, and topics added in recent enhancement packages. This book will help you to master the system and work more efficiently on a daily basis.

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

This SAP user guide will help you to work with SAP ERP more efficiently and effectively. You will learn about the various options and shortcuts available for navigating in SAP ERP. Walk through how to configure and optimize your user interface. Dive into SAP ERP productivity accelerators such as screen layouts, keyboard shortcuts, menus, and transaction codes. Learn how to leverage variants to personalize a version of a report. Find out what your options are for downloading and exporting reports for offline analysis and distribution. Explore tips for SAP ERP integration and obtain expert advice for finding and navigating between related documents and master data. Get tips for setting default values for frequently used transactions. Obtain an introduction to how to view and process jobs, schedule and monitor background jobs, and access and view your print spools. By using practical examples and screen-shots, the author brings readers quickly up to speed to get the most out of their SAP system. - Navigate in SAP ERP efficiently and effectively - Configure your user interface - Streamline frequently used transactions - Quick reference guides to menu bars, commands, and shortcuts

Configure SAP ERP Controlling to reflect each organization's unique processes First learn how to create organizational objects like company codes and cost centers and assign them to each other, and then dig into the critical CO modules. Following step-by-step instructions, manage master data, planning, reporting, and actual postings for Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, and more. Take control of CO with this comprehensive guide to configuration Highlights: Organizational elements and basic settings Master data Actual postings Period-end closing Reporting Cost Element Accounting Cost Center Accounting Internal Orders Product Costing Cost Object Controlling Profitability Analysis SAP HANA Preparation for cut-over

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

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