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ChristianRainer · 08-25-2023

How does Universal Parallel Accounting (aka UPA) impact Financial Planning in SAP S/4HANA? With this blog post I will look at the UPA topic from the point of view of Financial Planning in SAP S/4HANA. I want to summarize my findings and what you nee...

ChristianRainer · 03-10-2021

Updated for SAP S/4HANA 2022 FPS1 With the FPS1 release of SAP S/4HANA 2020 a new scenario for central projects enables asset settlement in Central Finance. In my last blog post I have already explained the options of Asset Accounting in Central Fin...

ChristianRainer · 08-28-2020

Updated for SAP S/4HANA 2021 Internal order planning is now also part of the Integrated Financial Planning for SAP S/4HANA business content that is delivered in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Internal order planning is used to plan costs that you expect...

ChristianRainer · 07-17-2020

Updated for SAP S/4HANA 2022 FPS1 Objectives SAP S/4HANA Central Finance evolved from a pure advanced financial reporting system to a central transformation platform where you can execute financial processes centrally. In this blog post I will focus...

ChristianRainer · 03-02-2020

In this blog post I will explain how you can achieve live financial insights in real-time and speed up the financial close with the new real-time derivation in SAP S/4HANA. The real-time derivation is available in SAP S/4HANA in Margin Analysis, whic...

ChristianRainer · 06-23-2022

Hi Sesha, yes MDG mapping is also used for project/WBS ID, see SAP Help - Central Projects (WBS): Each project and WBS element which is replicated to the Central Finance system runs through the MDG (Master Data Governance) business mapping. Here, t...

ChristianRainer · 04-21-2022

Hi all, for mass updates there are bots available within SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation for following Asset Accounting processes: Update Asset master Asset Acquisition Asset Transfer within company code Asset Transfer across com...

ChristianRainer · 12-02-2021

Hi Elizabeth, this is a good question. There is no retraction of actual postings back to source system available within Central Finance. If you require asset related postings in source system, this would be possible with the scenario of decentral ass...

ChristianRainer · 09-22-2021

Hi Nitesh, re-activation means additional capitalization or change of capitalization values of assets. It is from SAP Note 2827364 where you can find further restrictions about Central Payment in Central Finance. In a Central Payment scenario you m...

ChristianRainer · 07-02-2021

Yes, you can import actual transaction data from the Universal Journal in SAP S/4HANA into an SAC planning model (for example into the delivered planning model for internal ordes) via OData Services in SAP S/4HANA: SAP Help - Importing Transaction D...

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