SAP Press, 2014. — 296 p. — ISBN: 9781592294466 Navigate the complex financial close process and learn how to address regulatory requirements, manage disclosure management, and report results to key stakeholders. Written for business process owners, finance directors, and managers, this book will teach you how to optimize the financial close process within your organization. Develop a single financial close workflow with this end-to-end overview and close your books faster! Your course is set and the light is green. Enable your business to navigate the hairpin turns of the financial close process with this end-to-end overview. Guided by practical workflow scenarios and customer examples, learn how to maximize the potential of SAP's financial close solutions. From start to finish, manage data integrity issues, optimize your financial close processes, and handle system integration. Close your books in record time with this one-stop resource for all your financial closing needs!1. Streamlined Financial Close Workflow Align your business workflows to support a streamlined financial close process. 2. A Financial Close Action Plan Learn how to build a business case, create a clear action plan for your financial close process, and avoid the common barriers.3. Reporting Proactively address disclosure management and weather regulatory change with finesse and flexibility. 4. Real-Time Visibility Visualize your financial close success and identify issues with real time analysis and the Financial Closing Cockpit.5. Practical Case Studies and Examples Learn how industry peers have improved their financial close processes and reduced risk.Highlights include:General Ledger close Controlling close Inventory management Entity close management Intercompany reconciliation Information management Process governance Financial consolidation Disclosure management Financial reporting Don't look any further! This comprehensive book teaches you how to customize Financial Accounting in SAP ERP (SAP FI) for all of your unique business scenarios. Whether you want to change your screen layout for end users or need to define new process variants in any FI component, this book makes configuring your solution easy for any business requirement.For all releases from SAP R/3 4.6 to SAP ERP 6.0. 1. Practical Knowledge Acquire the knowledge behind the customizing actions. After reading this book, youll be able to take over an implementation in any stage, or start one of your own. 2. Integration with SAP Modules Learn how to integrate FI with Controlling (SAP CO), Sales and Distribution (SAP SD), Materials Management (SAP MM), Production Planning (SAP PP), and more. 3. Learn How to Customize as You Read Discover step-by-step instructions, real-world examples, and see helpful screenshots to aid you in customizing your FI system. 4. Comprehensive Coverage Find information on seldom-covered Lease Accounting, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, and much more. 5. Case-Study Approach Follow along with a fictitious global enterprise as the implementation team configures FI in SAP to meet business-specific needs and requirements. SAP ERP financials financial accounting New general ledger Customizing SAP Enterprise structure Financial accounting global settings (new): part I Financial accounting global settings (new): II General ledger accounting (new) Accounts payable Accounts receivable Contracts accounts receivable and payable (FI-CA) Bank accounting (FI-BL) Asset accounting (FI-AA) Consolidation preparation (new) Lease accounting (FI-LA) Travel management (FI-TV) SAP upgrade / Migration Miscellaneous.
