Online Course
Group Reporting with SAP S/4HANA
with Jill Hartley
01/14/2026 – 02/11/2026
The course in detail:
Expert Jill Hartley explains how SAP has organized the corporate close cycle, providing both a functional perspective and guidance on technical configuration. Learn how your company’s financial data gets retrieved, validated, translated, and consolidated. Master the use of the Data Monitor and Consolidation Monitor. Post, manage, and analyze your group journal entries—and then learn how to generate stakeholder-ready financial reports across all consolidation levels. From setting up foundational master data to running intercompany elimination and managing consolidation of investments, this course guides you through the complexities of accounting for a global business.
What you'll learn:
- Discover how SAP S/4HANA handles regional and financial consolidation
- Execute the corporate close process at the entity level
- Monitor reconciliation tasks and consolidation status
- Post, manage, and analyze your group journal entries
- Generate accurate, compliant, and stakeholder-ready group journal entries
🕒 The courses start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 3:00 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is this Group Reporting with SAP S/4HANA course suitable for?
- FI-CO consultants
- Implementation leads and teams
- Accountants and controllers
- Financial close personnel
Prerequisite: Participants should have a functional understanding of corporate accounting and be familiar with US GAAP and/or IFRS standards. If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us.
These group reporting topics will be covered in this course:
- Setup and master data
- Data collection and validation
- Journal entries
- Currency translation
- Intercompany matching and reconciliation
- Intercompany eliminations
- Consolidation of investments
- Group reporting analytics
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Online Courses
Group Reporting Setup and Master Data
Build your foundation! Set up master data: global parameters, controlling structures, organizational units, consolidation chart of accounts, and more. Configure subitems, hierarchies, and selections.
Topics:
- Consolidation engine
- Global parameters
- Controlling structures
- FS item type
- Breakdown categories
- Item maintenance
- Automatic eliminations
- Hierarchy design
Data Collection, Validation, and Currency Translation
From initialization tasks and data collection to trial balance adjustments and validations, learn how the Data Monitor guides you through your period close.
Topics:
- The Data Monitor
- Custom tasks
- Balance carryforward
- The Universal Journal
- GRDC data collection
- Net income calculation
- Balance validation
Journal Entries, Validation, and ICMR
Manage your journal entries! Ensure transparency, auditability, and proper sequencing by delving into the close cycle: consistency checks, authorizations, and intercompany matching and reconciliation.
Topics:
- The Data Monitor
- Journal entry grouping
- Close cycle positions
- Validation rules
- Balance validation
- Local vs. group financial close
- Matching run
- Automatic variance
Intercompany Eliminations and Consolidation of Investments
Use the Consolidation Monitor to configure and execute automatic intercompany eliminations. Then dig into rule-based and activity-based consolidation of investments!
Topics:
- The Consolidation Monitor
- Status monitoring
- Reclassification logic
- AR/AP, dividend, P&L, and sales/COGS intercompany eliminations
- Divestitures
- Purchase and at-equity methods
- Step aquisitions
- Transfers and mergers
Group Journal Entries and Group Reporting Analytics
Post, manage, and analyze your group journal entries. Cover the full range of functionalities: how to adjust them efficiently, choose document types, and configure your workflow processes.
Topics:
- Journal post/import/display
- Workflow management
- Group share reports
- Balance validation
- Standard reporting vs. rule-based views
- P&L statements
- Cash flow statement
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Your Expert
Jill Hartley is a strategic finance transformation leader and SAP solution architect with more than 20 years of experience leading enterprise consolidation and planning and reporting initiatives across global organizations. She specializes in SAP S/4HANA for group reporting, with a track record of aligning financial systems to business strategy. She currently advises Fortune 500 clients on large-scale finance transformation programs and leads Consolidation Core, a specialized SAP advisory firm. Her industry experience includes pharmaceuticals, insurance, apparel, manufacturing, and chemicals.
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