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Financial Close with SAP S/4HANA

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534 pages, , Print edition hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4932-2732-7
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534 pages, , Print edition hardcover
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ISBN 978-1-4932-2734-1
Ready to close your books in SAP S/4HANA? Walk through the end-to-end process, from preclose to year-end close. Review specific activities for period-end close, management accounting close, group reporting, and consolidation. Then streamline your task management with SAP Advanced Financial Closing. Manage tax compliance and reporting, preview future innovations, and more with this complete guide!
  • Review essential steps to close your financial accounting, controlling, and consolidated ledgers
  • Use SAP Advanced Financial Closing to automate your close
  • Analyze and monitor close activities with key SAP Fiori apps and solutions like SAP Analytics Cloud
About the E-book About the Book E-book in full color. PDF (85 MB) and EPUB (38 MB) files for download, DRM-free with personalized digital watermark. Copy and paste, bookmarks, and print-out permitted. Table of contents, in-text references, and index fully linked. Including online book edition in dedicated reader application. 500 pages, hardcover. Reference book format 7 x 10 in. Printed black and white on 60# offset paper from sustainable sources. Casebound for durability. Reader-friendly serif font (TheAntiquaB 9.5 Pt.). One-column layout.

In this book, you’ll learn about:

  1. Financial Close Basics

    Discover how the financial close process has evolved with SAP S/4HANA and review a typical closing calendar. Set up your organizational structure, master data, and cost objects to suit your business.

  2. Close Workflows

    Walk through financial close from end to end, including preclose and upstream activities, month-end close, management accounting close, year-end close, and consolidation. Get tips and best practices each step of the way.

  3. Automation and Reporting

    Automate your close with SAP Advanced Financial Closing. Use solutions such as SAP Analytics Cloud to report on important KPIs, and explore considerations for tax-related compliance.

Highlights include:

  • Master data
  • Organizational structure
  • Cost objects
  • Upstream activities
  • Month-end close
  • Management accounting close
  • Annual close
  • Group reporting and consolidation
  • SAP Advanced Financial Closing
  • Tax reporting and compliance
  • Analytics

Francisco da Cunha is a leader in the Europe Middle East and Africa Center of Competence and TruQua EMEA, an IBM Company, focused on finance transformation and SAP S/4HANA global sales and delivery.

Piotr Górecki is a program manager and enterprise architect in the IBM Global SAP Center of Competence.

Mandar Kashikar is a senior managing consultant with IBM consulting. He has 22 years of experience in financial accounting, revenue accounting and reporting, and enterprise portfolio and project management.

Howard A. La Kier assists clients in their digital transformations enabled by SAP ecosystem solutions as the financial transformation go-to-market and delivery leader for TruQua, an IBM Company.

Sonam Pawar is a senior managing consultant with extensive experience running business transformation programs enabled by SAP finance and related solutions.

Rodney Reed is a senior managing consultant in the SAP practice at IBM Consulting. He has extensive experience delivering solutions for product costing, margin analysis, overhead cost controlling, material ledger/actual costing, and general accounting for complex, global SAP clients with more than 20 years spent working on full lifecycle implementations.

Marc Six is a partner at TruQua, an IBM Company. He has been a featured speaker at worldwide SAP finance conferences, broadcasts, and shows throughout the last decade; he has co-authored the E-Bite Introducing SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) and other finance thought leadership material focused on business transformation and change.

Srinivas Sriram is the group reporting North America leader at TruQua, an IBM Company, where he drives business value for clients by implementing strategic technology solutions.

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