Controlling with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide

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)

List of contents

... Foreword ... 15

... Preface ... 17

... Target Audience ... 18

... Objective of This Book ... 18

... How to Read This Book ... 19

... Acknowledgments ... 23

1 ... Introduction to SAP S/4HANA ... 25

1.1 ... Deployment Models in SAP S/4HANA ... 25

1.2 ... Universal Journal Innovations ... 28

1.3 ... The New User Interface ... 39

1.4 ... Summary ... 45

2 ... Controlling in SAP S/4HANA ... 47

2.1 ... The Merge of Financial and Management Accounting ... 48

2.2 ... Financial Planning ... 61

2.3 ... Predictive Accounting ... 65

2.4 ... Management Accounting and Margin Analysis ... 70

2.5 ... Reporting and Analytics ... 91

2.6 ... Summary ... 95

3 ... Organizational Structures ... 97

3.1 ... Organizational Structures in Finance ... 97

3.2 ... Organizational Units of Logistics and Assignment to Accounting ... 112

3.3 ... Financial Reporting Structures ... 118

3.4 ... Summary ... 124

4 ... Master Data ... 125

4.1 ... General Ledger Accounts and Cost Elements ... 126

4.2 ... Cost Centers ... 138

4.3 ... Activity Types ... 144

4.4 ... Statistical Key Figures ... 150

4.5 ... Internal Orders and Projects ... 153

4.6 ... Profitability Object in Margin Analysis ... 160

4.7 ... Summary ... 174

5 ... Overhead Controlling ... 175

5.1 ... Cost Stewardship and the Role of the Cost Center/Project Manager ... 176

5.2 ... Postings for Cost Accounting in the Universal Journal ... 179

5.3 ... Planning in SAP S/4HANA ... 188

5.4 ... Business Transactions ... 195

5.5 ... Reporting for Overhead Controlling ... 225

5.6 ... Summary ... 228

6 ... Controlling for Manufacturing Organizations ... 229

6.1 ... Master Data Used in Manufacturing ... 230

6.2 ... Cost Estimates ... 243

6.3 ... Procure-to-Invoice ... 262

6.4 ... Make-to-Stock with Order Costing ... 266

6.5 ... Make-to-Stock Using Product Cost Collectors ... 294

6.6 ... Make-to-Order ... 301

6.7 ... Maintain and Operate Assets ... 308

6.8 ... Summary ... 312

7 ... Margin Analysis for Products and Services ... 313

7.1 ... Guiding Principles and Overview ... 314

7.2 ... Sales Scenarios ... 320

7.3 ... Customer Project Scenarios ... 362

7.4 ... Service Scenarios ... 421

7.5 ... Event-Based Revenue Recognition ... 450

7.6 ... Summary ... 463

8 ... Investment Controlling ... 465

8.1 ... Investment Programs and Assigned Projects and Orders ... 466

8.2 ... Planning and Budgeting ... 469

8.3 ... Settlement and Reporting ... 478

8.4 ... Summary ... 487

9 ... Controlling in an Intercompany Environment ... 489

9.1 ... Intercompany Goods Movements ... 490

9.2 ... Intercompany Cost Allocation Postings ... 508

9.3 ... Summary ... 522

10 ... Reporting in SAP S/4HANA ... 523

10.1 ... SAP Fiori and the Virtual Data Model ... 525

10.2 ... Global Hierarchies ... 528

10.3 ... Flexible Hierarchies ... 535

10.4 ... Semantic Tags ... 541

10.5 ... Key Figure Reporting ... 545

10.6 ... Compatibility Views: Report Writer ... 547

10.7 ... Summary ... 550

11 ... Conclusion and Outlook ... 551

... Appendices ... 561

A ... Key Controlling Transactions ... 563

B ... Key SAP Fiori Applications for Controlling ... 569

C ... The Authors ... 573

... Index ... 575

About the author

Janet Salmon is the chief product owner for management accounting at SAP SE and has accompanied many developments to the controlling components of SAP ERP Financials as both a product and a solution manager. She regularly works with key customers and user groups in the United States and Germany to understand their controlling challenges and requirements. Her role is to design and implement innovative controlling solutions with SAP's development teams in Germany and China.

Summary

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)

Product details

• Authors: Jane Salmon, Janet Salmon, Stefan Walz
• Publisher: Rheinwerk Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2021
• EAN: 9781493220984
• ISBN: 978-1-4932-2098-4
• No. of pages: 593
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 40 mm x 260 mm
• Weight: 1437 g
• Series: SAP Press; SAP PRESS Englisch
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SAP S4 HANA Finance, SAP S4/HANA Finance, SAP S/4 HANA Finance, SAP S4HANA Finance, SAP Simple Finance, Reporting, Co, FICO Business User Guide, Margin analysis, Event-based revenue recognition