SAP S/4HANA Finance

Beginning your finance transformation? Looking to learn what SAP S/4HANA has to offer? This book is your starting point for SAP S/4HANA Finance! Learn about the suite’s architecture and explore its capabilities for your core finance processes: financial accounting, management accounting, treasury and risk management, planning, consolidation, and close. Unlock enterprise-wide finance reporting, assess your deployment options, and design your finance project with this introductory guide!

In this book, you’ll learn about:

a. Finance Capabilities
See how your core processes run in SAP S/4HANA. Walk through accounts payable and receivable, profitability analysis, cash management, financial planning, entity and corporate close, and more. Discover how the Universal Journal removes data siloes and transforms finance.

b. Reporting and Analytics
Establish an enterprise-wide reporting strategy! Learn about requirements for tax reporting and statutory reporting, and then explore tools to report and analyze data in SAP S/4HANA, such as SAP Fiori apps and SAP Analytics Cloud.

c. Implementation Planning
Take your first steps toward SAP S/4HANA Finance. Consider your deployment options: on-premise or cloud? Big-bang or phased approach? What about Central Finance? Design your future landscape and build your business case with this guide.

Highlights include:

1) Financial accounting
2) Management accounting
3) Treasury and risk management
4) Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
5) Financial close and consolidation
6) Universal Journal
7) Reporting and analytics
8) Implementation project planning
9) Deployment options
10) Architecture
11) SAP Fiori applications