Controlling with SAP ERP: Business User Guide
3rd Edition
Published on 28. August 2018
Book
Hardback
730 pages
978-1-4932-1736-6 (ISBN)
Description
Your to-do list just got easier! With this guide for Controlling business users, learn how to manage master data, create budgets and investment plans, conduct actual postings, and execute a period close more efficiently. Get the step-by-step instructions and expert tips you need to complete your tasks in SAP ERP. From routine transactions to reporting, make sure you're in control!
a. Day-to-Day Tasks
From planning to period close, get the step-by-step instructions to perform your important Controlling tasks as efficiently as possible.
b. Best Practices
See how major organizations tackle management accounting with SAP ERP, and apply tried and tested expert tips to improve your own processes.
c. SAP S/4HANA and Controlling
Understand the full impact of SAP HANA on your Controlling implementation. Explore the functional improvements of SAP S/4HANA for key processes such as profitability analysis, planning, and reporting with SAP Fiori.
1) Master data
2) Product cost controlling
3) Reporting
4) Planning and budgeting
5) Actual postings
6) Period close
7) Allocations and settlements
8) SAP Financial Closing cockpit
9) SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects BI
10) SAP Cost and Profitability Management
11) SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA
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Janet Salmon
Controlling with SAP-Practical Guide
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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. She is the author of SAP PRESS books Controlling with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide, SAP S/4HANA Finance: The Reference Guide to What's New, and Controlling with SAP ERP: Business User Guide.
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Content
... Preface ... 17
... A Practical Guide to Controlling with SAP ... 20
... Acknowledgments ... 25
1 ... Introduction ... 27
1.1 ... Basic Controlling Functions ... 31
1.2 ... Essential Record-Keeping Functions ... 37
1.3 ... Managing Close and Valuation Processes ... 43
1.4 ... Preparing Budgets and Planning ... 46
1.5 ... Process Analysis and Internal Controls ... 50
1.6 ... Summary ... 52
2 ... Reporting ... 53
2.1 ... Cost Center Line Items ... 54
2.2 ... Order Line Items ... 67
2.3 ... Product Costs: Itemization ... 71
2.4 ... Classic Reports for Product Cost Reporting ... 72
2.5 ... Product Costs: Cost Objects ... 76
2.6 ... Material Ledger/Actual Costing ... 84
2.7 ... Profitability Analysis Reports ... 88
2.8 ... Summary ... 95
3 ... Master Data Owned by Controlling ... 97
3.1 ... How to Set Up Cost Centers ... 98
3.2 ... Internal Orders ... 118
3.3 ... Statistical Key Figures ... 128
3.4 ... Activity Types ... 131
3.5 ... Secondary Cost Elements ... 138
3.6 ... Product Cost Collectors ... 144
3.7 ... Cost Object Hierarchies ... 146
3.8 ... Maintenance Issues ... 148
3.9 ... Change Requests for a SOX-Compliant Master Data Process ... 153
3.10 ... Summary ... 156
4 ... Master Data for Which Controlling Is a Stakeholder ... 159
4.1 ... Material Masters ... 161
4.2 ... Customer Masters ... 172
4.3 ... Bills of Material ... 174
4.4 ... Routings ... 184
4.5 ... Work Centers and Resources ... 190
4.6 ... Procurement Alternatives and Mixed Costing ... 192
4.7 ... Projects ... 196
4.8 ... Investment Programs ... 199
4.9 ... Primary Cost Elements and Profit and Loss Accounts ... 202
4.10 ... Setting Prices for Product Costing ... 209
4.11 ... Summary ... 216
5 ... Planning and Budgeting ... 217
5.1 ... Complete Sales Plan in a Manufacturing Environment ... 219
5.2 ... Planning and Budgeting for Investment Programs ... 273
5.3 ... Summary ... 285
6 ... Actual Postings ... 287
6.1 ... Integrated Process Flows: Buy, Make, and Sell ... 287
6.2 ... Distribution of Usage Variances ... 320
6.3 ... Integrated Process Flows: Other Logistics Scenarios ... 326
6.4 ... Corrections or Adjustment Postings ... 350
6.5 ... Cross-Company Postings ... 357
6.6 ... Summary ... 362
7 ... Period Close ... 363
7.1 ... Allocations ... 364
7.2 ... Calculations and Settlement ... 396
7.3 ... Multilevel Actual Costing in the Material Ledger ... 414
7.4 ... CO-PA Processes ... 428
7.5 ... Summary ... 433
8 ... Reporting in SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects ... 435
8.1 ... Reporting on Large Data Volumes in SAP ERP ... 436
8.2 ... How to Decide Whether You Need SAP BW for Reporting ... 445
8.3 ... Cost Center Reporting in SAP BW ... 464
8.4 ... Reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Tools ... 471
8.5 ... Summary ... 480
9 ... Master Data in a Multisystem/Shared Service Environment ... 481
9.1 ... Change Requests in SAP ERP ... 484
9.2 ... New Solutions for Handling Master Data in a Multisystem Environment ... 490
9.3 ... Governance Requirements for Master Data ... 503
9.4 ... Creating Change Requests in a Shared Service Center ... 509
9.5 ... Summary ... 512
10 ... Planning Using SAP BW Technologies ... 513
10.1 ... Planning Applications in SAP ERP ... 515
10.2 ... Planning Applications in SAP BW ... 519
10.3 ... Summary ... 536
11 ... Allocations Using SAP Profitability and Cost Management ... 537
11.1 ... Template Allocations in SAP ERP ... 540
11.2 ... Allocations in SAP PCM ... 549
11.3 ... Customer Value Analysis Using SAP PCM ... 561
11.4 ... Summary ... 565
12 ... Period Close Using the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit ... 567
12.1 ... New Options for Accelerating the Period Close ... 568
12.2 ... Closing Tasks in Multiple Systems ... 600
12.3 ... Transparency within the Close ... 604
12.4 ... Summary ... 607
13 ... Controlling with New Technologies ... 609
13.1 ... Controlling with SAP HANA ... 612
13.2 ... SAP Fiori Applications ... 636
13.3 ... Summary ... 651
14 ... SAP S/4HANA and Controlling ... 653
14.1 ... The Universal Journal ... 654
14.2 ... The Material Ledger ... 673
14.3 ... Profitability Analysis ... 681
14.4 ... Reporting in SAP Fiori ... 693
14.5 ... Planning ... 700
14.6 ... Summary and Postscript ... 712
... The Author ... 715
... Index ... 717
... A Practical Guide to Controlling with SAP ... 20
... Acknowledgments ... 25
1 ... Introduction ... 27
1.1 ... Basic Controlling Functions ... 31
1.2 ... Essential Record-Keeping Functions ... 37
1.3 ... Managing Close and Valuation Processes ... 43
1.4 ... Preparing Budgets and Planning ... 46
1.5 ... Process Analysis and Internal Controls ... 50
1.6 ... Summary ... 52
2 ... Reporting ... 53
2.1 ... Cost Center Line Items ... 54
2.2 ... Order Line Items ... 67
2.3 ... Product Costs: Itemization ... 71
2.4 ... Classic Reports for Product Cost Reporting ... 72
2.5 ... Product Costs: Cost Objects ... 76
2.6 ... Material Ledger/Actual Costing ... 84
2.7 ... Profitability Analysis Reports ... 88
2.8 ... Summary ... 95
3 ... Master Data Owned by Controlling ... 97
3.1 ... How to Set Up Cost Centers ... 98
3.2 ... Internal Orders ... 118
3.3 ... Statistical Key Figures ... 128
3.4 ... Activity Types ... 131
3.5 ... Secondary Cost Elements ... 138
3.6 ... Product Cost Collectors ... 144
3.7 ... Cost Object Hierarchies ... 146
3.8 ... Maintenance Issues ... 148
3.9 ... Change Requests for a SOX-Compliant Master Data Process ... 153
3.10 ... Summary ... 156
4 ... Master Data for Which Controlling Is a Stakeholder ... 159
4.1 ... Material Masters ... 161
4.2 ... Customer Masters ... 172
4.3 ... Bills of Material ... 174
4.4 ... Routings ... 184
4.5 ... Work Centers and Resources ... 190
4.6 ... Procurement Alternatives and Mixed Costing ... 192
4.7 ... Projects ... 196
4.8 ... Investment Programs ... 199
4.9 ... Primary Cost Elements and Profit and Loss Accounts ... 202
4.10 ... Setting Prices for Product Costing ... 209
4.11 ... Summary ... 216
5 ... Planning and Budgeting ... 217
5.1 ... Complete Sales Plan in a Manufacturing Environment ... 219
5.2 ... Planning and Budgeting for Investment Programs ... 273
5.3 ... Summary ... 285
6 ... Actual Postings ... 287
6.1 ... Integrated Process Flows: Buy, Make, and Sell ... 287
6.2 ... Distribution of Usage Variances ... 320
6.3 ... Integrated Process Flows: Other Logistics Scenarios ... 326
6.4 ... Corrections or Adjustment Postings ... 350
6.5 ... Cross-Company Postings ... 357
6.6 ... Summary ... 362
7 ... Period Close ... 363
7.1 ... Allocations ... 364
7.2 ... Calculations and Settlement ... 396
7.3 ... Multilevel Actual Costing in the Material Ledger ... 414
7.4 ... CO-PA Processes ... 428
7.5 ... Summary ... 433
8 ... Reporting in SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects ... 435
8.1 ... Reporting on Large Data Volumes in SAP ERP ... 436
8.2 ... How to Decide Whether You Need SAP BW for Reporting ... 445
8.3 ... Cost Center Reporting in SAP BW ... 464
8.4 ... Reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Tools ... 471
8.5 ... Summary ... 480
9 ... Master Data in a Multisystem/Shared Service Environment ... 481
9.1 ... Change Requests in SAP ERP ... 484
9.2 ... New Solutions for Handling Master Data in a Multisystem Environment ... 490
9.3 ... Governance Requirements for Master Data ... 503
9.4 ... Creating Change Requests in a Shared Service Center ... 509
9.5 ... Summary ... 512
10 ... Planning Using SAP BW Technologies ... 513
10.1 ... Planning Applications in SAP ERP ... 515
10.2 ... Planning Applications in SAP BW ... 519
10.3 ... Summary ... 536
11 ... Allocations Using SAP Profitability and Cost Management ... 537
11.1 ... Template Allocations in SAP ERP ... 540
11.2 ... Allocations in SAP PCM ... 549
11.3 ... Customer Value Analysis Using SAP PCM ... 561
11.4 ... Summary ... 565
12 ... Period Close Using the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit ... 567
12.1 ... New Options for Accelerating the Period Close ... 568
12.2 ... Closing Tasks in Multiple Systems ... 600
12.3 ... Transparency within the Close ... 604
12.4 ... Summary ... 607
13 ... Controlling with New Technologies ... 609
13.1 ... Controlling with SAP HANA ... 612
13.2 ... SAP Fiori Applications ... 636
13.3 ... Summary ... 651
14 ... SAP S/4HANA and Controlling ... 653
14.1 ... The Universal Journal ... 654
14.2 ... The Material Ledger ... 673
14.3 ... Profitability Analysis ... 681
14.4 ... Reporting in SAP Fiori ... 693
14.5 ... Planning ... 700
14.6 ... Summary and Postscript ... 712
... The Author ... 715
... Index ... 717