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SAP Enhancement Package 6 for SAP ERP

Financial Enhancements Overview Presentation Suite Solution Management, SAP AG,Version 01

November, 2011

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Structure of this document

Navigation Index: Use this sheet as main

navigation to get fast to the

area and slides of your interest

Business Function

Summary: This kind of sheets summarize

the enhancement for a solution

area. The rows on in the table

of these slides describe the

several business functions.

Business Function: These sheets summarize all the

features delivered with this

business function. Each row in

the table describes one feature.

Feature: These sheets describe the

features in a process

environment. Just new features

are described on that way.

BF xy

BF xy

BF xy BF Summary xy

BF xy

BF xy

BF xy



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Agenda

Financials

• Financial Analytics

• Treasury

• Financial Accounting

• Management Accounting

• Corporate Governance

• Strategic Enterprise Management



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Business Function Summary Financial Analytics

Description Target Customers

FIN, Operational Data Provisioning for Financial Analytics

Allows customers to use real-time operational reporting to analyze the financial data in

SAP ERP

Customers who require real-time analysis

Index Feature Business

Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Business Function FIN, Operational Data Provisioning for Financial Analytics

This function allows customers to access and analyze real-time financial data.

Benefits Business Function:FIN_REP_SIMPL_4

•Customers can access and analyze their data in SAP ERP without the need for a separate system running SAP NetWeaver BW. This function

reduces the overall TCO and TCI of their analytics solution.

•Customers with an existing system running SAP NetWeaver BW benefit from real-time analysis.

Improved

Features: Description Target Users

Operational data

provisioning

facilitates real-time

analysis of financial

data.

Enables the use of operational data provisioning in the SAP ERP application so

that customers can use analytics based on real-time data

•G/L accountant

•Corporate controllers

•A/R accountant

•A/P accountant

•Business unit analysts

Index BFS Feature Business

Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Agenda

Financials


• Treasury







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Business Function Summary Treasury


TRM, Financial Risk Management for Commodities 2

•Modeling of fixed-priced and floating-priced commodity-related firm commitments (from

sales or purchase order)

•Receiving hub for integration between logistics and the SAP Treasury and Risk

Management application

Customers facing commodity price risks who want to

extract and collect commodity price risk automatically


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Business Function TRM, Financial Risk Management for Commodities 2

Commodity exposure management with SAP Treasury and Risk Management

Benefits Business Function:FIN_TRM_COMM_RM_2

This business function strengthens the commodity risk management functionalities of the SAP Treasury and Risk Management application. Focused

on the origin of most commodity risk, the logistical execution chain of sales order processing and purchase order processing, exposure management

is enhanced to capture fixed priced and variable priced firm commitments out of this process. It also provides the receiving hub for the automated

transfer of commodity price risk exposures from logistics via the logistics-to-TRM interface, provided with business function LOG_TRM_INT, and

reflects the lifecycle of the logistical documents in the exposures.

New Features: Description Target Users

Receiving hub for

integration between

logistics and the

SAP Treasury and

Risk Management

application (BF

LOG_TRM_INT)

Transfer of commodity price risk from logistics chain (sales order processing

and purchase order processing) into exposure management of SAP Treasury and Risk

Management

Process automation

Modeling of fixed-

priced and floating-

priced commodity-

related firm

commitments (from

sales or purchase

order)

This feature allows correct modeling of variable and fixed-priced commodity price risk

as they appear in purchase and sales order processing.

Risk manager


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Agenda

Financials


• Treasury







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Business Function Summary Financial Accounting


FI, Localization for China

New localization for China:

•Financial statement form

•Cash flow statement form

•Account document form

•Account balance form

•Periodic closing according to Zhang Jie Fa

•Financial document numbering by period

•Chart of accounts hierarchy

All Chinese customers who use financial accounting

according to the state-owned Assets Supervision and

Administration Commission (SASAC) regulations of the

state council

FI, LO, Localization Topics for Russia 2

•Offsetting of inventory differences of goods

•Work-wear accounting

•New export report, TORG-12, on the basic SD invoice

•New turnover balance sheet of transfer of goods and values in the warehouses report

on basic MB5B transaction

•Alternate reconciliation account number in MM

Customers dealing with Russian accounting standards


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Contract Accounting Extensions 4

The business function provides crucial developments as part of the consume-to-

cash process in the integration of the SAP Convergent Charging application, SAP

Convergent Invoicing package, and the SAP Customer Financial Management package.

Billing in Contract Accounting 2

•Enablement of the SAP Convergent Invoicing package to cover complete accounting-

related processes in a telco prepaid scenario

•Improvements of existing and new features of the functionality of SAP Convergent

Invoicing

Customers with a high volume of billable items,

regardless of their character (prepaid and postpaid

scenario fully supported), will benefit from the solution.

Multi Currency Accounting

An overall view of the currency status of a financial institution is only possible at the level

of the general ledger (GL), because every transaction, banking or nonbanking, is

recorded on GL accounts. Therefore, a multicurrency-compliant general ledger has to

show FX exposure in each transaction currency.

Suitable for all banking customers requiring the

management of foreign currency exposures at the GL

level

Local Close 3

The SAP Financial Closing cockpit has been considerably enhanced in multiple aspects:

•Increased usability

•Stronger functionality

•Better integration to SAP CPS

•Improved performance

•Increased compliance

Customers with a complex landscape who want to run

local close centrally, especially customers who have

already adopted the SAP Financial Closing cockpit or the

SAP Central Process Scheduling application by Redwood


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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FI-BL, Import and Postprocessing of Elec. Bank Statement

New functions for automatic and mass upload of bank statements from one or more

source directories. Bank statements can be dispatched to other systems after upload.

New postprocessing transaction for bank statements with significantly improved user

experience and productivity.

•Customers who use or plan to use electronic bank

statement processing in accounts payable and accounts

receivable

•Customers who want to process their incoming bank

statements in a more automated and effective manner

E-Payments for China

The business function allows use of a single transaction to prepare, approve, and make

domestic payments using electronic bank transfers.

Customers in China who make payments by bank

transfer

FI-AA Localization Topics for RU

Enhancements to provide more fully tailored FI-AA functionality for Russia

Customers in Russia who use asset accounting

FI-AA, Fixed Asset Accounting

Fixed asset accounting supports general ledger integration per depreciation area and

with different fiscal year variants, as long as the fiscal year begin and end dates are the

same across all fiscal year variants.

Any customer who is active at more than one

location, uses more than one fiscal year variant, has the

new general ledger active, and uses the ledger approach

for parallel accounting


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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FI-AA Legacy Transactions and Localization Topics for Japan

More fully tailored FI-AA functionality for Japan

Customers in Japan who use asset accounting

JVA, Integration with New General Ledger Accounting

FI-GL (New), Segment Reorganization

Reorganization of segments enables companies to change, split, or merge segments

by changing the segment assignments in the relevant objects. Reorganization might

become necessary when companies want to change their structure of segment reporting.

Large enterprises using the new general ledger in SAP

ERP for creating balance sheet and P&L statements for

their business segments.

FI, LO, Localization Topics for Russia 3

•Accounting statement form

•Import custom declaration improvement

•Separate VAT solution enhancement

•MIRO: payment conditions depend on shelf life of goods

•VAT in transit: new features

Customers dealing with Russian accounting standards


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Business Function FI, Localization for China

It delivers a set of functionality enhancements and some new functionalities.

Benefits Business Function:FIN_LOC_CI_13

Companies can be compliant with certain requirements of the Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)


Period-end closing

according to Zhang

Jie Fa

All state-owned companies that belong to SASAC should fulfill the requirements of Zhang

Jie Fa to complete period-end closing. Zhang Jie Fa means that at every month-end, the

balance of P/L accounts are carried forward to a retained earnings account, and that after

month-end closing, the balance of all P/L accounts are zero.

Financial accounting department

FI document

numbering by

period

In China, an official document number should be used to present documents or journal

entries to the auditors or tax authorities. The respective government and controlling

authorities usually request that these official numbers should start at "one" each month.

The official document number should be assigned to all posted documents.



Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Business Function FI, Localization for China


Account balance

report, including the

ability to use the

chart of accounts

hierarchy

The account balance report provides information on general ledger account balances for a

specified fiscal period a format stipulated by authorities in China. It provides information

such as account number, opening balance, debit and credit amounts in local currency,

and closing balance (local currency is the company code currency defined in

customizing).

General ledger accountants

Accounting

document report

The accounting document report provides information on journal entries, such as the cash

and bank vouchers of a company. This is required for documenting a company's business

operations, and the information is in the format stipulated by legal authorities in China.

General ledger accountants

Financial statement

form

The balance sheet and income statement forms currently used are based on the new

enterprise accounting rules released on February 25, 2006. The effective date is January

1, 2007.


Time-dependent

G/L account

description

Account balance transactions IDCNACCTBLN, FS10N, and FAGLB03 display G/L

account description time dependently only at the accounting document detail level, where

the posting date can be derived.



Function

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Summary



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Business Function FI, LO, Localization Topics for Russia 2

Localization enhancement for Russia


Additional automation and transparency for business processes and a number of new print forms


Advance payment

invoices

In financial accounting (FI), the new function prints an advance payment invoice from a

down payment request, using the standard correspondence functionIn sales and

distribution (SD), the new function prints an advance payment invoice from a pro forma

invoice in billing, using standard output functions

Customers who use advance

payments

Export data

analysis for VAT

The export data analysis for VAT (Russia) report displays and analyzes the data of

outgoing and incoming invoices and of VAT documents, payments, customs declarations,

contract data, customers, vendors, and purchased materials.

Companies that have a process

related to export VAT


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Inventory

differences

offsetting

•New transaction allows users to offset stock surpluses against stock shortages that are

found during physical inventory

•INV-19 difference list for stock (Russia) transaction can create the INV-19 form including

the results of the inventory differences offsetting

Customers who perform physical

inventory of goods

Printing TORG-12

form in sales and

distribution

Prints the delivery note for goods movement (TORG-12 form) from a billing document in

sales and distribution (SD), using the standard output functions

Customers who have a goods

movement process

VAT account

analysis

The incoming VAT account analysis (Russia) report analyzes the status of the VAT

transferred for invoices. For example, you can check if VAT has been transferred, how

much VAT has been transferred in the previous periods, how much can be recognized in

the current period, and so on.

Customers who reflect incoming

VAT documents in the software

Work-wear

accounting

•Full process of work-wear purchase or production, issue to employees, depreciation,

return, accounting and write-off using MM, FI-AA, and FI functionalities

•Employee’s personal data handling

Companies with workers who

perform hazardous, dangerous,

and dirty jobs and who work in

special temperature conditions


Function

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Function

Summary



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Improved


Export customs

declarations

Automates and simplifies tracking of export custom declaration data throughout the entire

process, from purchase to sale, as required by law


for exporting goods

Posting to alternate

G/L accounts

Provides an option to specify alternate reconciliation accounts in logistics invoice

verification (MM-IV-LIV)

International companies

Secondary events

creation

New functions for the create secondary events for exports (Russia) program:

•Processing contracts in invoice document chains

•Retrieving and checking customs declaration data

All customers

Stock on posting

date

You can use a new enhancement for the stock on posting date report (transaction MB5B).

The enhancement allows you to reflect the stock balance for a stock account on the

reporting date specified by a user.

Customers who use materials

management (MM)


Function

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Function

Summary



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Improved


Stock on posting

date

You can use a new enhancement for the stock on posting date report (transaction MB5B).

The enhancement allows you to reflect the stock balance for a stock account on the

reporting date specified by a user.

Customers who use materials

management (MM)


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Business Function Contract Accounting Extensions 4

A variety of improvements:

•Usage of BRFplus in collections and FI-CA events

•Simplification of posting area maintenance and tax reporting

Benefits Business Function:FICAX_CI_4

Timely and accurate execution of a comprehensive process, consume to cash in high volume business, leads to lower TCO, higher transparency,

and enhanced simplicity of integrated applications.


Enhancements in

integration with the

SAP Collections

Dispute

Management

application

From the list of dispute cases, users can now navigate to objects of billing and invoicing

within FI-CA: documents, invoicing documents, invoicing items, and billable items. If a

dispute case has been replicated from a dispute case in SAP CRM, navigation to

that dispute case is enabled.

Interaction center agents

concerned with financial

customer care

Transfer of unbilled

commitments to the

SAP Credit

Management

application

Contract accounts receivable and payable now also transfers credit exposure for billable

items and billed but not yet invoiced items from SAP Convergent Invoicing to SAP Credit

Management. This functionality enables early information about usage and consumption

that has not yet been billed and posted as receivables.

•Credit managers

•Collections managers


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Collective bills The use of the collective bill functionalities is now enabled for an industry application:

extended FI-CA (FI-CAx).

Billing agents and accountants


Function

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Function

Summary



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Improved


Posting area views Posting areas offer a flexible way to store and access customizing data. You can use

them to define the key fields, the access sequence, and the dependencies of key fields to

function fields. Posting area views help reduce the number of required entries in posting

areas.

Members of implementation

project

Parallel document

archiving

Document archiving can now run as a mass activity in contract accounts receivable and

payable. As a result, you can process the documents in parallel in multiple runs.

Operators and administrators

FI-CA events with

BRFplus

Instead of coding function modules in FI-CA events, you can generate a BRFplus function

and develop process or check logics in the BRFplus function. The option is provided for

selected FI-CA events.

Key business users in

accounting and collections

Tax posting date

and tax reporting

The tax reporting date can now be transmitted to G/L accounting documents. In event

0067, the tax on the sales and purchases code of G/L items can be replaced according to

your own logic or country-specific logic to meet the legal requirements for handling tax on

sales and purchases for credits.

Accountants


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Improved


Tax posting date

and tax reporting

The tax reporting date can now be transmitted to G/L accounting documents. In event

0067, the tax on the sales and purchases code of G/L items can be replaced according to

your own logic or country-specific logic to meet the legal requirements for handling tax on

sales and purchases for credits.

Accountants

Enhancements in

collections

management

•The champion collection strategy can now be replaced by the challenger collection

strategy for a predefined master data selection.

•Collection strategies can now determine the collection step based on BRFplus.

Collection managers


Function

Business

Function

Summary



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Business Function Billing in Contract Accounting 2

Consume-to-cash processing of post- and prepaid transactions in one solution

Benefits Business Function:FICAX_INV_PP_2

Improvements to provide scalable and high-performance billing for high-volume businesses that can cover post- and prepaid scenarios.


Treatment of

prepaid usage and

refills

The full prepaid business is covered:Refill of prepaid balances using different refill

channels Processing of prepaid usage Creation of GL-relevant postings Closing handling

for expired prepaid accounts Reporting of complete prepaid history of a prepaid account

Full integration with SAP CRM and SAP Convergent Charging

Billing agents, accounting

agents, and service center

agents in high-volume industries

Archiving of billable

items

In SAP Convergent Invoicing, transactions to be billed are received and processed. At the

end of the process chain, these items are stored as billed items linked with a billing or

invoicing document. Due to the high volume of billed items, users must archive these

items from time to time – a business and a legal requirement.

Billing agents and system

administrators


Function

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Function

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Bill cycle

synchronization

The bill cycle in SAP Convergent Invoicing controls the usage cut-off date of a bill period.

To guarantee consistent use of the usage cut-off date, the bill cycle in SAP CRM, SAP

Convergent Invoicing, and SAP Convergent Charging must remain synchronized. The

provider contract handles distribution of the bill cycle.

CRM and billing agents in high-

volume industries

Re-rating and

reversal in SAP

Convergent

Invoicing

SAP Convergent Invoicing guarantees that when rated events have to be rated again the

items already processed are kept consistent. Depending on the status (not yet billed,

billed, excepted, or raw) the processed item will be reversed, removed, or credited in SAP

Convergent Invoicing. This function is configurable according the business needs of the

company.

Billing agents, accounting

agents, and service center

agents in high-volume industries

Master data

objects:Provider

contract Product

Provides master data objects (provider contract and product) to be used in an integrated

scenario with SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), contract accounts

receivable and payable (FI-CA) in SAP ERP, and SAP Convergent Charging.

CRM and billing agents in high-

volume industries

Distribution of

master data

The distribution and synchronization of master data between FI-CA in SAP ERP and SAP

Convergent Charging is supported starting with this business function.

System administrator


Function

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Improved


Improvements in

billable item class

configuration and

administration

Improvements in maintenance of billable item classes: Enablement of the solution for

parallel processing of single contract accounts, based on flexible grouping criteria

Simplified extension of billable item classes to support industry and customer fields

Improved performance of billable item selection Archiving of billing and invoicing

documents as a parallel processes is provided Central monitor for billable item selection

and cross-item status

Configuration team member and

system administrator


Function

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Business Function Multi Currency Accounting

Management of currency exposure in the GL

Benefits Business Function:FIN_GL_MCA

Financial institutions require a common FX valuation and position management process to:

•Manage their exposure in foreign currency based on one or more positions per currency

•Transform their profit and loss in foreign currency into functional currency with which the foreign currency exposure can be assessed

•Revaluate currency positions at any given time for all nonfunctional currencies (transactional, local, and group currency)

Multicurrency accounting in SAP ERP Financials enables banks to handle multicurrency processing and accounting in GL at a position level.


Multicurrency

accounting

Multicurrency accounting in SAP ERP Financials (general ledger: GL) enables financial

institutions to handle multicurrency processing and accounting (MCA) in the GL at the

position level. MCA represents the management of all GL accounts in the original

currency (transaction currency) as well as the valuation of central FX position accounts.

Financial institutions require a common position management and FX revaluation

process:To transform their profit and loss in foreign currency into the functional currency

with which the foreign currency exposure can be assessedTo manage their exposure in

foreign currency based on one or multiple positionsTo revaluate currency positions at any

given time for all nonfunctional currencies

Banks requiring compliance with

national accounting rules for

foreign currency handling,

including reporting and currency

translation at the group level


Function

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Business Function Local Close 3

Performance, usability, integration, and compliance improvements in daily work with the SAP Financial Closing cockpit

Benefits Business Function:FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_3

•Drives higher working efficiency at lower operational cost via usability enhancements for closing rules and closing tasks, such as template and task

list preset, customer-defined fields, attachment of multiple documents, simplified task list creation, support of multiple time zone, multiple user

access, and so on

•Performance improvement with data access, mass scheduling, and processing optimization for better working efficiency


Adding customer

fields to a task

You can define additional customer fields for a task and edit the fields in the closing

template or in the task list. You also have the option of using a BAdI to fill the fields.

•Local accountant

•Closing planner

Setting the current

template or task list

as the default

You can set a template or a task list as the default setting. In this way, the default setting

is applied automatically when you call the cockpit (using transactions CLOCOT,

CLOCOC, or CLOCO), without requiring you to specify the template from the list of

templates or task lists.

•Local accountant

•Closing planner

•Closing executor


Function

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Time zones are

supported

You can select different time zones in the cockpit. The time information is then displayed

in the selected time zone.

•Local accountant

•Closing executor

Enhanced functions

for organizational

units

When you create new tasks or new folders in a template that are relevant for all

organizational units, you can simply copy them to all organizational units.

You can replace a task or a folder in all organizational units.

Similarly, you can also delete a task or a folder from all organizational units.

•Local accountant

•Closing planner


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Improved


Adding documents

to a task

You can use this function to add documents to a task. Those documents can be Microsoft

Office documents (from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint), PDF documents, text files, or URLs.

You can add documents with different formats to a single task. The documents can be

imported or created from within the application.

•Local accountant

•Closing executor

Easier ways of

creating and

releasing task lists

With reports create task list (CREATE_TASKLIST) and create multiple task lists

(CREATE_TASKLISTS), you can create, release, and subsequently schedule task lists

without additionally having to call up the cockpit using the transaction Closing Cockpit:

Create Task List (transaction CLOCOT). This approach allows you to create and release

task lists on a daily or weekly basis more efficiently.

•Local accountant

•Closing planner

Defining multiple

destinations for

SAP Central

Process Scheduling

by Redwood in

the cockpit

You can define destinations and isolation groups in templates, thereby enabling you to

use different destinations for SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood in different

templates. You need this function to separate completely the tasks of the different

templates in SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood (for example, for different

country groups). You can use two new fields (destination and isolation groups) in the

basic data of the template.

•Local accountant

•Closing planner

Improved

performance in

the cockpit

Performance is improved for various functions with the following enhancements:

•Loading data for dependencies

•Option of mass scheduling as background processing

•Controlled storage of settings to the task overview (CLOCO)

•Updates in selected tasks only

•Details only determined when called explicitly from the context menu

•Local accountant

•Closing planner

•Closing executor


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Improved


Improved

performance in

the cockpit

Performance is improved for various functions with the following enhancements:

•Loading data for dependencies

•Option of mass scheduling as background processing

•Controlled storage of settings to the task overview (CLOCO)

•Updates in selected tasks only

•Details only determined when called explicitly from the context menu

•Local accountant

•Closing planner

•Closing executor

New status of a

task

The new status, Checked, can now be used in the SAPGUI user interface. You can set

this status manually only after the task has undergone a final check. This approach

provides you with the option of checking the task again after it has been processed

successfully, either by the system (the status is set automatically) or by yourself (the

status can also be set manually).

•Local accountant

•Closing executor

Changes to tasks in

the task list

This function enables you to make changes to the task list after it has been created. For

example, you can change the definition of a task, add new tasks, or delete tasks.

•Local accountant

•Closing planner

•Closing executor

Function

enhancement for

downloading task

lists

You can now download task lists with notes in files, such as Microsoft Excel or other data

types.

•Local accountant

•Closing executor


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Improved


Improved

authorization

concept

After activating this function in customizing, you can manage authorizations in the SAP

Financial Closing cockpit with greater precision. With the new authorization concept, you

can make a distinction between three user groups:

•03 Display – Authorization to display task lists

•02 Change – Authorization to make changes to the task list (including mass changes)

•16 Execute – Authorization for the restricted processing of the task list for closing

activities, such as executing tasks, changing statuses, locking tasks, or scheduling jobs

Consequently, you can restrict the assignment of authorization for activity 02 to a small

number of users.

•Local accountant

•Closing executor


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Business Function FI-BL, Import and Postprocessing of Elec. Bank Statement

Efficient bank statement processing through automatic upload and user-friendly workplace for exception handling

Benefits Business Function:FIN_BL_EB_1

•Efficient post-processing workplace to support fast handling of bank statement line items and allocation of payments

•Enhanced user productivity features, like rerun of automatic matching after correcting payment information and templates for recurring postings

(bank charges)

•Support for central bank connectivity scenario with dispatching of bank statements

•Mass upload of files support for an update of balances as soon as bank statement files are provided

•Flexible path and file names

•Application log to retrace single steps and exceptions after importing and processing

Improved


Mass upload,

storage, and

dispatch of

electronic bank

statements (Swift

MT)

•House bank accounts automatically updated as soon as bank statement files provided by

the house banks

•Upload of multiple files and input paths supported' ability to monitor the upload with an

integrated application log

•Exception handling and storage function supported

•Ability to dispatch the files to additional systems

•Support of standard formats (MT940/MT942/BAI)

Cash manager

Enhanced user

interface for bank

statement

postprocessing

This function supports the user during postprocessing of bank statement line items that

could not automatically be cleared by the software. Examples of new features to increase

user productivity:

•Correct or complete the payment information (note to payee) and repeat automatic

matching

•Special support of payment advices and transactions related to checks and DME files,

such as advice or check number search

•Dynamic search criteria for invoices and other documents

•Support of on account postings and entering additional general ledger line items

•Posting templates for recurring postings like charges

•Improved integration into the SAP Collections and Dispute Management application and

financial shared services

•Enhanced user experience and personalization

•Accounts receivable specialist

•Cash manager


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function E-Payments for China

Efficient processing of payments using bank transfer by Chinese banks


•Centralized view to handle bank transfers with Chinese bank terminals

•Enhanced user experience based on common practices of Chinese customers

•Technical platform to configure local bank formats and connections for Chinese banks


Monitor and

approve domestic

items to be paid

•Provide a central view of open items to be paid

•Sort or query on existing items to be paid

•Trigger ad hoc automatic payment proposal from item monitoring

•Provide approval processing on open items or item groups according to customer-

defined logic

Users, for example, accountants

or cashiers, who handle

payments and bank transfers at

a company in China

Trigger and monitor

bank transfers

•Configure and test the connection to Chinese bank communication clients

•Generate and send the payment request using configurable payment format

•Query and update bank transfer status using the bank communication clients

Users, for example, accountants

or cashiers, who handle

payments and bank transfers at

a company in China


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function FI-AA Localization Topics for RU

Enhancements to provide more fully tailored FI-AA functionality for Russia


Features delivered for Russia to align with country-specific requirements and business practices

Improved


Capture KPP code

for asset accounting

in Russia

Allows customers to maintain the KPP code at the region and district level, which is an

organizational unit below the company code level, for reporting of taxes and accounting.

Customers who are using

Russian property tax and

transport tax report programs

Enhancement to

ALV reporting

Allows customers to have reconciliation of calculation and declaration for property tax and

transport tax reports in Russia


Russian property tax and

transport tax report programs


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function FI-AA Localization Topics for RU

Improved


Customer capture

of property tax paid

abroad

Allows customer to capture the amount of the property paid abroad for Russian property

tax reporting functionality.


Russian property tax report

programs

Capture of property

tax and transport

tax at vendor level

Allows property tax and transport tax calculations at the vendor level for asset accounting

in Russia

Customers using Russian

property tax and transport tax

report programs


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function FI-AA, Fixed Asset Accounting

Enhanced parallel accounting in fixed asset accounting

Benefits Business Function:FIN_AA_CI_1

•Higher automation: unlike partially manual processes in the past, it is now possible to assign different fiscal year variants to depreciation areas

which post to the general ledger (new)

•Higher flexibility: execution of depreciation runs is now supported per ledger group and not just on a company-code level


Parallel accounting

in ledger approach

with multiple fiscal

year variants

•This functionality supports the assignment of a fiscal year variant (FYV) per depreciation

area in fixed asset accounting as long as the fisal year (FY) begin date and FY end date

coincide across the FYVs.

•It supports execution of depreciation runs per depreciation area assigned to the same

ledger group.

•It provides correct period value reporting in fixed asset reporting and in asset explorer in

accordance with the assigned FYV.

•The functionality can be explicitly activated.

•Expert for local close

•Expert for management of fixed

assets

•Expert for financial accounting


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function FI-AA Legacy Transactions and Localization Topics for Japan

Enhancements to provide more fully tailored FI-AA functionality for Japan


Alignment with country-specific requirements and business practices


Additional

calculation logic for

acquisition with

value adjustment

Provides the correct judgment to recognize acquisition with the value adjustment and start

the declaration year of the calculation of tax evaluation amount by the ordinary

depreciation start date and the capitalization date.

Customers who use the

localized Japanese solution for

asset accounting (property tax

report for Japan)


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function FI-AA Legacy Transactions and Localization Topics for Japan

Improved


Enhancement of

automatic

calculation logic

for postcapitalizatio

n

•Provides the correct judgment on the start declaration year of the calculation of tax

evaluation amount

•Provides the correct and cumulative calculation of tax evaluation amount from

declaration year YYYY if both the capitalization date and the ordinary depreciation start

date are YYYY/Jan/01




report for Japan)

Enhancement of

decision logic for

the useful life and

ratio

Enables the report to pick up the appropriate value of useful life of the asset maintained

for the year in process from the time-dependent data and chooses the depreciation ratio

accordingly




report for Japan)

Enhancement of

transfer of legacy

asset transactions

Enhancement enables users to set quantity, quantity unit, and reference document

number in legacy asset transactions. These three values are necessary for the asset

retirement or the asset transfer to be correctly calculated and listed in the property tax

report for Japan (RAIDJP_TAX).




report for Japan)


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function JVA, Integration with New General Ledger Accounting

Benefits Business Function:JVA_GL_INTEGRATION


Document split The new GL split functions are used by the joint venture integration manager of joint

venture accounting (JVA) to achieve transparency, configurability and stability:JVA fields

as new general ledger split criteria. The new GL splitter has been adapted such that the

JVA fields can be handled as a split criterion or as variables that can be manipulated by

JVA split preparation venture (VNAME), equity group (EGRUP), recovery indicator

(RECID), or original recovery indicator (ORECID)Enhanced split logic: new GL provides

interfaces (BAdI) for special JVA features like presplit preparation of FI data and postsplit

processing for posting into JVA tablesJVA-related enrichment (MM postings, cash call

process, partner netting process, and reconciliation (FI/CO)

JVA customers

CO-FI real-time

reconciliation

The new GL CO-FI real-time reconciliation has been enhanced according to the needs of

JVA by allowing reconciliation postings for cross-venture CO postings.

JVA customers


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function JVA, Integration with New General Ledger Accounting


Document

recording

JVA document recording has been enhanced to provide the GL with JVA-relevant fields

and reporting information. JVA-specific processes have been adapted to ensure

consistent JVA reporting based on new GL data. In JVA there are special reports that

change equity group and recovery indicator. Currently these changes are made only in the

JVA tables. To ensure consistent new GL and JVA reporting, including equity group and

recovery indicator, the following reports above need to be adapted to post FI documents

rather than JVA documents: equity change and farm in–farm out suspense.

JVA customers

Customizing

options

Customizing options have been enhanced to establish a working document splitting

process as in JVA. Following options have been added:Usage of JVA split processor:

customers have an option to decide which split processor is used for the creation of the

JVA documents (JV integration manager with hard-coded split logic or JVA-enabled new

GL. online splitter)Split result verification (off, warning, or error message): additional

special customizing options for JVA and new GL provides automatic settings if possible

and then interactively forces the customer to enter the necessary attributes for the new GL

or JVA settings.JVA–FI currency validation: new GL CO-FI real-time reconciliation (with

option for cross-joint venture)

JVA customers


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function FI-GL (New), Segment Reorganization

More flexibility and higher automation when the segment reporting structure is subject to change

Benefits Business Function:FIN_GL_REORG_SEG

Consistent definition, authorization, and execution of segment reorganization is now highly automated within the general ledger, resulting in higher

efficiency, lower TCO, faster financial closes, and improved compliance and governance.


Reorganization of

segments

This new function offers an easier and more transparent way to reassign your segments

in the general ledger of SAP ERP, offering a single point of entry along with auditable and

role-based process administration. A reorganization plan manager creates a

reorganization plan as the basis for generating the object lists that the manager presents

to those responsible for editing (reassigning) the segment-carrying objects (like profit

center, receivables, payables, assets, and so on). After this step, the reorganization plan

manager starts changing all the objects assigned by the objects owners. Afterward the

manager triggers the reposting of the balance sheet accounts. Once all changes and

postings are performed, the reorganization plan is closed.

All customers who perform

reporting with the field or

scenario segment in the general

ledger and who want to reassign

segments once in a while


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL


Localization enhancement for Russia


Features delivered for Russia provide additional automation and transparency for business processes and new print forms


Accounting

statement form

An accounting statement is a document containing a number of mandatory parameters

that confirms an accounting transaction; such a document is required by Russian

accounting law in cases where no paper accounting document (such as an invoice,

payment order, or goods receipt) exists to confirm the transaction. An accounting

statement is typically required for reversals, accounting adjustments, period closing

transactions, or depreciation.

All companies

MIRO: payment

conditions depend

on shelf life of

goods

The Retail Trade Law requires that payment terms should depend on the shelf life of

goods. You can define payment terms relevant for splitting based on the shelf life of

material for invoices created from MM.

Any Russian retail company


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL


Improved


Import custom

declaration

improvement

New feature helps automate and simplify tracking of custom declaration data throughout

the entire process, from purchase to sale, which is required by law.


for importing foreign goods

Separate VAT

solution

enhancement

•Allows customer to classify incoming invoices

•Provides complete tracking in the system of the invoices that are relevant for export

operations

•Allows correct handling of an incoming VAT transfer

Any Russian company dealing

with exports that is obligated to

conduct separate VAT

accounting

VAT in transit: new

features

VAT transfer documents created by program J_3RFVATSD, VAT for goods in transit, are

shown in the document flow for SD documents.

All companies


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Agenda

Financials


• Treasury







SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Summary Management Accounting


CO, Cost Center Management

Renewal of core controlling applications to provide a modern user experience for

occasional users

•New customers doing the first implementation of cost

center and project accounting

•Experienced customers who want involve noncontrollers

in their planning processes

Roles for Manager Self-Service and Business Unit Analysis

Switches a few critical changes while converting the business analyst portal role and

manager self-service portal role to corresponding roles in the profile generator (PFCG) to

enable SAP NetWeaver Business Client software

Customers using the business unit analyst role and

manager self-service role in SAP NetWeaver Business

Client software


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Summary Management Accounting


CO, Planning Integration with Real Estate

Improves the planning process for real estate objects by ensuring that planned activities

are transferred to cost center planning as scheduled activities

Real estate customers using controlling, especially

airports


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function CO, Cost Center Management

Improves ease of use for master data maintenance and for the planning and budgeting process

Benefits Business Function:FIN_CO_CCMGMT

•Improves the planning and budgeting process by putting it into the hands of operational managers and providing process support for approvers

•Improves UI for master data maintenance and ease of use

Improved


Improved cost

element planning

for internal projects

Provides a configurable user interface for cost element planning that allows planning of

detailed costs by cost element or by cost element group in a user-friendly Web application

that updates the controlling tables directly. The follow-on valuation processes can work

with the entered data just as before.

Project planners, controllers, and

approvers

Improved overall

planning for internal

projects

Provides a configurable user interface for overall planning that allows entry of rough-cut

planning data by project managers, together with appropriate charts, that updates the

controlling tables directly so that no changes are needed in existing reports.

Project planners, controllers, and

approvers


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL


Improved


Improved cost

estimating for

internal projects

Provides a configurable user interface for cost estimating that is easier to understand and

that updates the controlling tables directly. The data entered can be used to request the

required resources.

Cost estimators and controllers

Improved hierarchy

maintenance

Provides a new interface for maintenance of hierarchies and groups and allows groups to

be created in advance or retired from use (inactive status).

Controllers

Improved cost

center maintenance

Provides a configurable user interface for cost centers •Controllers for master data

maintenance

•Cost center managers to initiate

change request

Improved activity

type maintenance

Provides a configurable user interface for activity types •Controllers for master data

maintenance

•Cost center managers who

initiate change requests


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL


Improved


Improved

maintenance of

internal orders

•Provides a configurable user interface for internal orders

•Includes SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search for internal orders to simplify selection of

order

•Controllers for

order maintenance

•Cost center managers who

initiate change requests


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Roles for Manager Self-Service and Business Unit Analysis

Original processes are kept in SAP NetWeaver Business Client software

Benefits Business Function:FIN_CO_MSSBUA_NWBC

Making the portal optional potentially provides an option for a customer to reduce TCO

Improved


Enablement of

smooth navigation

in SAP NetWeaver

Business Client

software

Simple but critical coding change to enable smooth navigation in SAP NetWeaver

Business Client, just as in the portal environment

Users of SAP

NetWeaver Portal who

also use the business unit

analyst and manager self-

service roles


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function CO, Planning Integration with Real Estate

Transfers activity quantities planned for real estate objects to sender cost centers as a scheduled activity

Benefits Business Function:RE_CO_INTEGRATION

Removes the need for an internal order to represent real estate objects in the planning process

Improved


Transfer of activity

input planning for

real estate objects

to controlling

•Transfers activity input planned on business entities, buildings, land, rental objects and

contracts from flexible real estate management to cost center accounting as a scheduled

activity

•Ensures update of partners during planning of direct and indirect activity allocation

Existing real estate customers

who plan internal activity usage

by business entity, building, land,

rental object, or contract


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Agenda

Financials


• Treasury







SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Summary Corporate Governance


Master Data Governance for Financials 3

Enhanced solution to maintain financial master data centrally in a corporate group with

new features such as import entity company, remote entity usage check, fuzzy search,

replicate consolidation master data via enterprise service, and so on

Large enterprise customers in all industries and

customers with a high demand for centralized

management of financial master data within the corporate

group

Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA SEM

Provides an enterprise service to import financial master data in the SAP Master Data

Governance application, which helps you govern your consolidation master data for

business consolidation in the SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM)

application

Large enterprise customers in all industries and

customers with a high demand for centralized

management of financial consolidation master data within

the corporate group


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Master Data Governance for Financials 3

The SAP Master Data Governance application helps you govern your financial data much easier, more consistently, and

with higher quality.

Benefits Business Function:MDG_FINANCIALS_3

•Improved compliance and governance

•Consistent financial master data in operational and consolidation systems

•Greater efficiency and less manual work

•High quality and transparency


Remote where-

used list

Provide a checklist of the entity usage in remote systems to help you govern your financial

data more consistently

•Master data administrator

•Corporate accountant

•Financial master data specialist

•Financial master data steward

Import entity

company via an

enterprise service

Much easier to import entity company from another system via an enterprise service •Master data administrator

•Corporate accountant

•Financial master data specialist

•Financial master data steward


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Master Data Governance for Financials 3

Improved


Replicate

consolidation

master data via an

enterprise service

More convenient to replicate consolidation master data with higher quality assurance to

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, SAP BusinessObjects Financial

Consolidation, and business consolidation in SAP SEM

Master data administrator

Corporate accountant Financial

master data specialist Financial

master data steward


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA SEM

Automated replication of financial consolidation master data from SAP Master Data Governance

Benefits Business Function:CA_FINANCIALS_SOA_SEM

For customers who currently use SEM-BCS, this business function provides an easier way to import financial consolidation master data from

systems running SAP Master Data Governance into your financial consolidation or reporting system.

Improved


Automated import

of consolidation

master data from

SAP Master Data

Governance

Import financial consolidation master data from SAP Master Data Governance into:

•SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation

•SAP SEM: business consolidation

Customers who use:

•SAP Master Data Governance

•SAP BusinessObjects Financial

Consolidation

•SAP SEM: business

consolidation


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Agenda

Financials


• Treasury







SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Summary Strategic Enterprise Management


Financials, Group Close, Restatement Monitor

Enhanced automated support for restatement, including retrospective changes, as

required by IAS 1.10 or SFAS 154 (retrospective changes of accounting technique), IAS

8 (retrospective changes in accounting estimates and errors), and IFRS 5 (unwinding of

effects for assets held for sale)

Customers who are required to apply retrospective

changes to previous group closings


Function

Business

Function

Summary



SAP CONFIDENTIAL

Business Function Financials, Group Close, Restatement Monitor

Support for restatements by applying retrospective changes to group closings

Benefits Business Function:FIN_ACC_GC_RESTAT

•Improved automation for retrospective changes to group closings

•Reduced manual workload

•Reduced risk of accounting errors

•Enhanced flexibility for planning scenarios

•Improved compliance with current accounting standards


Enhanced

automated support

for restatement

•Posting with a noninitial characteristic value for restatement can be restricted to a user-

defined validity time range

• Automatic data entry supports loading complete data or data for the current restatement

characteristic value

•Execution of automatic tasks for two-sided elimination is supported in restatement

monitor for noninitial restatement characteristic values

•Status management supports consistency checks across different restatement

characteristic values

• Balance carry-forward enables aggregation or removal of data on certain restatement

characteristic values, as specified by the user

•Reclassification enables usage of restatement characteristic in trigger selection

Corporate accounting


Function

Business

Function

Summary

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Documents

fiscal year

fiscal year

fully tailored

russian accounting

russian property

localized

financial

aa legacy