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1 SAP S/4HANA Foundation - Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 Accounting and Financial Close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3 Asset Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4 Accounts Receivable Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5 Accounts Payable Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6 Profitability and Cost Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7 Overhead Cost Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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1 SAP S/4HANA Foundation - Promotion
The SAP S/4 HANA Foundation - Promotion offering supports customers in fulfilling the recording, valuation, and
reporting requirements for multi-GAAP reporting (IFRS, local GAAPs). At the same time, it provides the basis for
cost and revenue reporting in management decision making. It can be integrated in real time to other applications
such as procurement, sales, or manufacturing.
The offering encompasses the classic disciplines of financial and managerial accounting, and relies on line items
as a single source of truth for operational reporting and financial processes. This model provides transactional
details to reporting without the need to extract and duplicate data in analytical data structures.
The following table provides an overview of the offering's key capabilities:
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Key Capabilities Additional Information
Accounts receivable accounting Accounts Receivable Accounting [page 8]
Accounts payable accounting Accounts Payable Accounting [page 9]
General ledger Accounting and Financial Close [page 6]
Asset accounting Asset Accounting [page 7]
Inventory accounting
Accrual accounting
Customer and product profitability analysis Profitability and Cost Analysis [page 10]
Overhead cost accounting Overhead Cost Accounting [page 11]
Profit center accounting
Cost center and internal order accounting
Project accounting
Product cost accounting
Period-end functionality in general ledger and subledgers
Financial statements
Financial and management reporting
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2 Accounting and Financial Close
Business Background
You use Accounting and Financial Close to perform external accounting tasks using General Ledger Accounting.
Key Features
As a general ledger accountant, you can use the following functions:
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Key Feature Use
Master Data You can manage master data for profit centers, profit center groups and G/L
accounts.
If you specify profit centers in postings, you can create a profit and loss
statement (P&L) for profit centers and a financial statement for internal
purposes.
G/L account master data defines how business transactions are posted on G/L
accounts and how the posting data is processed. The directory of all G/L
accounts is the chart of accounts.
Postings and Documents You use documents to enter business transactions.
You can manage open items by reversing or clearing open items for example.
You can also reset a clearing.
You can create recurring entries for postings that are repeated regularly.
Closing Operations and Reporting For closing operations at period-end closing, you can use the programs
available for analyzing, valuating, and reclassifying the posting data.
With these closing operations, you create a financial statement and a profit and
loss statement (P&L).
There are different programs available for sales/purchases tax declarations
and tax payable postings.
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3 Asset Accounting
Business Background
You use Asset Accounting to manage and monitor tangible fixed assets. It provides detailed information about the
transactions relating to tangible fixed assets.
Prerequisites
To be able to use Asset Accounting, you have to also use General Ledger Accounting.
For more information, see Accounting and Financial Close [page 6] .
Key Features
As an asset accountant, you can use the following functions:
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Key Feature Use
Master Data Using the asset master record, you can create, edit, and manage the master
data of Asset Accounting.
Asset Acquisitions and Asset Retirements You can post asset acquisitions integrated with accounts payable accounting
or not integrated.
Analog to this, you can post asset retirements integrated with accounts
receivable accounting or not integrated.
In addition to this, there are more functions available for asset acquisitions and
retirements.
Depreciation With depreciation you map impairments incurred or impairments that are due
to tax law requirements.
More Transactions, Reversal More transactions, for example post-capitalizations are available.
You can reverse documents that are posted in Asset Accounting.
Closing Operations and Reporting You post the depreciation amounts periodically, directly in General Ledger
Accounting.
Create an asset history sheet to represent the development of the fixed asset
from the opening balance through to the closing balance.
More tools for the reporting and analysis of asset portfolios, asset transactions,
and depreciation are also available.
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4 Accounts Receivable Accounting
Business Background
You use accounts receivable accounting for processing open customer invoices, and to monitor incoming
payments.
Key Features
For this purpose, you can use the following features:
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Function Use
Monitoring of receivables You can display overdue receivables and customer balances.
In addition, you can process individual customer items.
Clearing of open invoices You can post incoming payments and manually clear open
items.
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5 Accounts Payable Accounting
Business Background
Invoices are created in purchasing and submitted to accounts payable. As an accounts payable accountant, when
you receive an invoice, you can view key performance indicators (KPIs) for the invoice and process the invoice.
Key Features
The following features support you with this process:
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Key Feature Use
Analysis of payments to vendors You use this feature to view information about payments to
vendors. You can check the overdue payable amount and the
future payable amount. If you identify negative trends in the
payable amount, you can notify the responsible persons to
take action.
Management of cash discounts You use this feature to forecast the available cash discounts
and to monitor the cash discount utilization in your
responsible area. You can find out where you need to makebetter use of cash discounts in order to avoid cash discount
loss in the future.
Reviewing of cleared overdue invoices You use this feature to get details and statistical facts about
cleared overdue invoices.
Evaluation of days payable outstanding You use this feature to identify vendors with the highest or
the lowest days payable outstanding.
Management of payments You use this feature to create, post, and, if necessary,
reverse payments.
Management of payment blocks You use this feature to set and remove payment blocks on
invoices or vendor accounts.
Management of payment proposals You use this feature to revise and release payment proposals.
Journal entries are then generated in the finance system.
Reviewing of checks You use this feature to display a check from a payment run as
a PDF. You can then view the check details.
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6 Profitability and Cost Analysis
Business Background
This business area enables you to evaluate market segments, classified according to products, customers,
orders, or any combination of these, or according to strategic business units, such as sales organizations or
profitability segments, with respect to your company’s profit or contribution margin. As part of period-end
closing, you can also carry out activities such as results analysis, settlements, and overhead allocations.
Key Features
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Key Feature Use
Settlement You can compare the ratio of planned and actual costs on a
project with the ratio of planned and actual revenue to
determine whether the project costs can be capitalized as
work in process
You can also settle projects to capitalize the balance from the
results analysis and obtain detailed data in the results
analysis for enterprise controlling
Revenue and cost of sales You can provide information on revenue and cost of sales to
support internal accounting and decision-making.
Overhead allocation (profitability analysis) You can perform overhead allocation for profitability analysis
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7 Overhead Cost Accounting
Business Background
This business area covers transaction-based actual postings that are normally used in Overhead Cost Accounting.
It also offers a transparent view across cost center accounts, enables journal entries to be processed for various
purposes, and periodic as well as end-year activities to be prepared.
Key Features
The following features support you with this process:
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Key Feature Use
Master data in cost accounting You can manage various types of master data, such as
● Cost centers
● Cost center groups
● Activity types
Activity prices You can maintain activity prices for any combination of cost
center and activity type. The activity price is needed for
allocating an internal activity.
Statistical key figures You can maintain statistical key figures, which serve as a
basis for internal allocations.
Overhead allocation between cost centers You can allocate posted costs from support cost centers to
primary cost centers.
Actual data reporting You can report on actual data for selected periods for the
following objects:
● cost centers
● projects
● market segments
● profit centers
● Profit & loss statement
Material inventory values You can report on quantities and values of the material
inventory.
You can also report on rounding differences between the
current stock postings of the actual stock and the calculated
stock.
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<Example> Angle brackets indicate that you replace these words or characters with appropriate entries
to make entries in the system, for example, “Enter your <User Name> ”.
Example Example Arrows separating the parts of a navigation path, for example, menu options
Example Emphasized words or expressions
Example Words or characters that you enter in the system exactly as they appear in the
documentation
www.sap.com Textual cross-references to an internet address
/example Quicklinks added to the internet address of a homepage to enable quick access to specific
content on the Web
123456 Hyperlink to an SAP Note, for example, SAP Note 123456
Example ● Words or characters quoted from the screen. These include field labels, screen titles,
pushbutton labels, menu names, and menu options.
● Cross-references to other documentation or published works
Example ● Output on the screen following a user action, for example, messages
● Source code or syntax quoted directly from a program
● File and directory names and their paths, names of variables and parameters, and
names of installation, upgrade, and database tools
EXAMPLE Technical names of system objects. These include report names, program names,
transaction codes, database table names, and key concepts of a programming language
when they are surrounded by body text, for example, SELECT and INCLUDE
EXAMPLE Keys on the keyboard
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