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Finance with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502

KatrinDeissner
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
‎2025 Feb 12 9:28 AM
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Dear finance aficionados,

I'm thrilled to share an update regarding our latest release - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 for Finance. This update highlights many significant innovations including SAP Green Ledger, Financing with Taulia, and of course new review booklets.

For a quick overview of the top release highlights for Finance with 2502, you can watch my video. If you're interested in a complete overview of all release highlights, scroll down to the table of contents.


 
This blog covers the following innovations:
Green Ledger

Financing with Taulia 

Artificial Intelligence 

Group Reporting 

Advanced Financial Closing

Treasury and Cash Management 

In-House Banking 

Lease and Real Estate

Management Accounting 

Asset Accounting

 

Green Ledger

SAP Green Ledger is a financial solution that serves as the critical hub in carbon accounting. Working with connected business systems, from ERP to sustainability systems, the solution extends financial accounting to include carbon. By applying the financial principles of double-entry accounting to carbon quantities and posting them on dimensions that are relevant to business steering, such as profit centers and segments, it provides a clear and quantifiable understanding of carbon impact, from provisioning to delivery.

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Demo 1: SAP Green Ledger - Overview

Value Proposition

  • Track, value and report in carbon impact of your end-to-end operations
  • Auditable reporting of carbon quantities
  • Create information useful to decision-making by analyzing caron data on financial attributes and in relation to financial figures
  • Increase the trust in reported carbon quantities by following accounting principles

Capabilities 

  • Supports for integration with other systems
  • Replication of corporate financial master data
  • Import of material movements from financial accounting and enrichment with carbon quantities
  • Import emissions from SAP Sustainability Footprint Management and post them as journal entries
  • Carbon data collection and posting
  • Carbon data export to group reporting
  • Allocation management
  • Visualization and reporting of carbon data only or in comparison to financial data

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Fig. 1: Working with connected business systems, from ERP to sustainability systems, SAP Green Ledger extends financial accounting to include carbon

For more information, see SAP Green Ledger.

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Enabling Management Reporting, Planning, and Analysis of Greenhouse Emissions Related to Financial Performance and Impact

Use the SAP Green Ledger Dashboard to see carbon and financial data at a glance. All data entered into the SAP Green Ledger solution can be visualized and displayed in a number of ways, such as in graphs and pie charts, making the information easy to consume and analyze. The data displayed in the dashboard can then be used for both official reporting purposes and to help organizations identify where changes can be made to reduce the carbon footprint of an organization.

Value Proposition

  • Gain insights on the climate impact of different business areas
  • Identify measures to reduce GHG emissions
  • Analyze and plan the financial impact of (not) taking measures to reduce carbon

Capabilities 

  • Leverage SAP Green Ledger to enable your teams to make strategic business decisions based on their environmental and financial performance
  • Analyze greenhouse gas (GHG) emission quantities, which are posted on financial dimensions (accounts, cost centers, profit centers, and segments), and relate them to financial figures on the same financial dimension
  • Perform planning of GHG emissions on the same financial dimensions with relation to the impact on costs, margin, and revenues, with the ability to create several plan versions taking different assumptions into consideration with GHG Emission Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
  • Predelivered stories in SAP Analytics Cloud enabling you to analyze different aspects of your carbon and financial data

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Fig. 2. With SAP Green Ledger, you can display your greenhouse gas emissions by scope and financial measure

For more information, see: SAP Green Ledger Dashboard

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Enabling Automatic Carbon Collections and Automated Allocations by Analyzing Material Movements

Importing carbon data related to material movements allows for the automatic creation of carbon collections for goods receipts from suppliers or goods returns to suppliers or the automatic creation of allocated journal entries for all other material movements, such as goods issues from stock to consumption. This increases efficiency by reducing the manual efforts for creating carbon collections and allocating carbon quantities.

Value Proposition

  • Increase efficiency in collecting carbon data
  • Reduce efforts in allocating carbon quantities
  • Improve data quality and consistency with the financial flow
  • Assure connectivity of financial amounts and carbon quantities

Capabilities 

  • Analyze journal entries related to material movements
  • Automatically create carbon collections based on analysis
  • Automatically create allocated journal entries
  • Automatically add sending and receiving accounts and account assignments to the journal entry to the generated carbon collections
  • Automatically take over accounts and account assignments from original journal entries in financial accounting

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Fig. 3: With SAP Green Ledger, you can analyze journal entries related to material movements

For more information, see: Import Material Movements

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Enabling Double-Entry Bookkeeping of Greenhouse Gas Emission Quantities & Collection and Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Carbon Journal 

Collect and allocate carbon quantities and post them as journal entries on financial dimensions. This allows for audit-proof accounting on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. 

Value Proposition

  • Ensure completeness of posted carbon quantities
  • Gain insights on carbon quantities on financial dimensions
  • Ensure auditability for reporting greenhouse gas emission quantities
  • Increase trust in reported carbon quantities by following accounting principles

Capabilities 

  • Collect, post, and allocate carbon quantities
  • Upload carbon quantities from spreadsheets or other sustainability applications
  • Referencing the leading prima nota
  • Manually allocate carbon quantities
  • Define allocation rules
  • Establish a reversal process for corrections
  • Track when a journal entry was posted and by whom

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Fig. 4: With SAP Green Ledger, you can collect and allocate carbon quantities and post them as journal entries on financial dimensions

For more information, see: Manage Allocations

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Retrieving Greenhouse Gas Emission Quantities from SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

SAP Green Ledger offers multiple option to make carbon data available for collecting them into carbon collections. One way is retrieving carbon data from the connected SAP Sustainability Footprint Management business system. This means all carbon data is prepared in SAP Sustainability Footprint Management and after retrieval posted as allocated journal entries.

Value Proposition

  • Reduce the efforts of collecting and allocating carbon quantities in SAP Green Ledger by retrieving carbon inflows from SAP Sustainability Footprint Management
  • Avoid duplicative work and reconciliation efforts by capturing carbon quantities

Capabilities

  • Retrieve collected carbon quantities from SAP Sustainability Footprint Management.
    Available entities include energy sources, process infrastructures, resources, facilities, and meters.
  • Connect the collected carbon quantities to financial dimensions and figures and eventually post them as journal entries

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Fig. 5: SAP Green Ledger can retrieve carbon data from the connected SAP Sustainability Footprint Management business system

For more information, see: Upload from SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

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Complying with Mandatory External Reporting on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Based on IFRS-S1, IFRS-S2, and ESRS-E1

Emerging mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting regulations, such as IFRS-S1, IFRS-S2, and ESRS-E1, require detailed, consistent, reliable, comparable, and audit-proof external reporting on GHG emissions which can be achieved based on an accounting approach aligned with financial reporting.

Value Proposition

  • Reduce efforts to comply with sustainability-related financial reporting standards
  • Create finance statements with currency amounts and carbon quantities side-by-side

Capabilities 

  • SAP Green Ledger helps businesses to comply with emerging mandatory GHG reporting regulations (IFRS-S1, IFRS-S2, ESRS-E1) on legal entity level (company code) by providing the necessary data for compiling external reports
  • Use the Carbon Data Dashboard for carbon-data-only reporting and analysis
  • Use the SAP Green Ledger Dashboard in SAP Analytics Cloud for reporting and analysis of carbon data in comparison to financial data
  • Carbon inventory of the period broken down by GHG-relevant attributes and external financial reporting dimensions
  • Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) flow statement, similar to an environmental liability (e-Liability) flow statement
  • Make use of the integration with group reporting for external mandatory reporting on corporate group level

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Figure 6: SAP Green Ledger reduces efforts to comply with sustainability-related financial reporting standards

For more information, see: Carbon Data Dashboard and SAP Green Ledger Dashboard

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Import Master Data from SAP S/4HANA for Carbon Accounting

Import corporate financial master data to monitor and review master data from a connected business system in SAP Green Ledger. After reviewing the data, the imported master data can be released and distributed into the other application within the solution. After the release of the imported master data, users can post and analyze their carbon quantities on the imported financial dimensions.

Value Proposition

  • Import corporate financial master data from a connected SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition business system
  • Included master data objects are accounts, charts of accounts, company codes, cost centers, fiscal periods, fiscal year variants, ledgers, plants, products, product types, profit centers, segments, units of measure, unit of measure dimensions

Capabilities 

  • Gain insights on emissions caused by different areas of your company by posting and analyze carbon quantities on imported financial dimensions

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Figure 7: SAP Green Ledger allows youo to import corporate financial master data to monitor and review master data from a connected business system

For more information, see: Import Master Data

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Importing Gas Emissions Through File Upload

SAP Green Ledger offers multiple option to make carbon data available for collecting them into carbon collections. One way is importing carbon data with a file upload. Here, the users prepare their carbon data in a spreadsheet and upload the spreadsheet into SAP Green Ledger. A carbon collection is automatically generated based on the carbon data in the uploaded file.

Value Proposition

  • Importing carbon quantities from various sources by uploading a file
  • Generating carbon collections from imported carbon quantities
  • Optionally, combining imported emission quantities with imported transactional data from SAP S/4HANA, such as material movements

Capabilities

  • Increase efficiency in importing carbon quantities from external sources
  • Reduce efforts of recording carbon quantities in carbon collection documents
  • Improve data quality by being able to import and combine carbon data from different sources

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Figure 8: SAP Green Ledger allows you to import carbon quantities from various sources by uploading a file

For more information, see: Upload from CSV.

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Financing with Taulia

Thanks to the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and the Taulia Platform, you can now optimize your payables and receivables financing processes. With receivables financing, also known as accounts receivable financing, you can get immediate cash by selling your outstanding receivables to a third party, known as the funder. Virtual cards payment allows you to pay your suppliers earlier using a virtual payment card, and later pay the balance on the virtual card from your bank account. In addition, you can benefit from dynamic discounting and supply chain financing.

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Demo 2: Receivables Financing with Taulia

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Demo 3: Payables Financing with Taulia

Value Proposition

  • Free up cash flow, leverage your receivables program to provide liquidity for your dynamic discounting programs, and establish a treasury arbitrage opportunity
  • Gain insights into your payment history and receivables performance
  • Use your company's existing commercial credit when your issuing bank supports virtual cards
  • Establish additional payment controls to mitigate fraud and increase accounts payable efficiency with automation and consolidated statements

Capabilities

  • Sale of receivables to a diverse range of funders
  • Flexible choice of receivables
  • Free up working capital and streamline accounts payable processes
  • Update payment methods to pay suppliers that accept virtual card payments

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Figure 9: Thanks to the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and the Taulia Platform, you can now optimize your payables and receivables financing processes

For more information, see: Financing with Taulia

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Receivables Financing: Sell Outstanding Trade Receivables

Receivables financing, also known as accounts receivable financing, allows you to get immediate cash by selling your outstanding receivables to a third party, known as the funder. The funder pays part of the amount due for the sold receivables and charges a fee for this service. With the Receivables Financing solution based on the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and the Taulia Platform, you can access the financing services of multiple funders and gather funds based on your unique financing needs via two apps: ‘Manage Receivables Financing Agreements’ and ‘Manage Receivables Financing Documents (F7983)’.

Value Proposition

  • Free up cash flow, leverage your receivables program to provide liquidity for your dynamic discounting programs, and establish a treasury arbitrage opportunity
  • Gain insights into your payment history and receivables performance
  • Reduce operational risks and support business growth

Capabilities 

  • Sale of receivables to a diverse range of funders
  • Flexible choice of receivables
  • ERP integration for master and transaction data
  • Creation of receivables financing documents containing sold receivables data
  • Posting and clearing of receivables financing documents

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Figure 10: Thanks to the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and the Taulia Platform, you can get immediate cash by selling your outstanding receivables to a third party

For more information, see: Receivables Financing

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Virtual Card Payments: Pay Invoices by Virtual Card

Virtual cards payment allows you to pay your suppliers earlier using a virtual payment card, and later pay the balance on the virtual card from your bank account. The functionality is enabled based on the integration between SAP S4/HANA Cloud Public Edition and Taulia. Once a virtual card is issued to your supplier, a payables financing order is created in SAP S4/HANA Cloud Edition, which is the basis for processing relevant journal entry items.

Value Proposition

  • Use your company's existing commercial credit when your issuing bank supports virtual cards
  • Establish additional payment controls to mitigate fraud and increase accounts payable efficiency with automation and consolidated statements
  • Use credit to extend payment terms or create additional rebate opportunities

Capabilities 

  • Free up working capital and streamline accounts payable processes
  • Update payment methods to pay suppliers that accept virtual card payments
  • Operate virtual cards side by side with existing payables programs, such as supply chain finance or dynamic discounting
  • Leverage integration between Taulia solutions and SAP S/4HANA Cloud to process early payment requests for virtual card payments as well as corresponding instructions

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Figure 11: With Taulia virtual cards payment you can pay your suppliers earlier using a virtual payment card.

For more information, see: Payables Financing

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Dynamic Discounting: Enable Suppliers to Receive Early Payment on Outstanding Invoices (Self-Funded)

Dynamic discounting allows you to make payments to suppliers earlier, in exchange for a discount. The functionality is enabled based on the integration between SAP S4/HANA Cloud Public Edition with Taulia. Once your supplier submits an early payment request of this type, a payables financing order is automatically created in SAP S4/HANA Cloud Public Edition, which is the basis for processing relevant journal entry items. A new app Display Payables Financing Orders (F8343) is available to support this functionality. With this functionality, you can effectively deploy your cash to capture discounts and achieve cost savings.

Value Proposition

  • Enhanced supplier onboarding efficiency
  • Give suppliers control over early payments based on their own business needs
  • Achieve cost savings by making payments earlier
  • Strengthened relationships between suppliers and buyers

Capabilities 

  • Suppliers' ability to choose which invoices to accelerate
  • Application of larger discounts to earlier payments
  • Automation of the comprehensive process for an optimized customer experience
  • Process early payment requests for dynamic discounting along with corresponding instructions through integration

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Figure 12: With dynamic discounting, you can enable enable suppliers to receive early payment on outstanding invoices (self-funded)

For more information, see: Payables Financing

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Supply Chain Finance: Enabling Supplier to Receive Early Payment on Outstanding Invoices (Third-Party Funded)

Supply chain financing enables you to pay your suppliers earlier through third-party funding. The functionality is enabled based on the integration between SAP S4/HANA Cloud Public Edition with Taulia. Once your supplier submits an early payment request of this type, a payables financing order is automatically created in SAP S4/HANA Cloud Public Edition, which is the basis for processing relevant journal entry items. A new app Display Payables Financing Orders is available to support this functionality. This functionality optimizes working capital for both you and your suppliers.

Value Proposition

  • Improved working capital to support your supply chain
  • Your suppliers can have a reliable stream of cash benefited from third-party funding
  • You can pay the funder according to your approved payment terms
  • Help form a plan that supports your ESG goals

Capabilities 

  • Enable suppliers to request early payment on all invoices or selected invoices
  • Straightforward integration with your SAP S4/HANA Cloud Public Edition to exchange approved invoice information, making sure there are no changes to the existing payment process
  • Process early payment requests for supply chain financing along with the corresponding instructions through integration

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Figure 13: With supply chain finance, you can enable suppliers to receive early payment on outstanding invoices (third-party funded)

For more information, see: Payables Financing

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Artificial Intelligence

AI-Assisted Financial Business Insights for Group Financial Statement Review Booklet (Beta)

The existing Group Financial Statement Review Booklet has been enhanced with AI features which are made available as part of the beta program. You can leverage generative AI for quick and immediate explanation and summarization of data insights in natural language. It provides predefined and ready-to-use business insights.

Value Proposition

  • Boost finance excellence by giving access to key financial insights to a wider range of users
  • Make better decisions based on information nuggets often overlooked in large data sets
  • Improve cross team collaboration by making it easy to prepare and share writeups of data analysis

Capabilities

  • Leverage generative AI to…
  • …analyze and summarize data sets
  • …calculate and explain context relevant financial KPIs
  • …combine data and comments to create more meaningful summaries
  • …filter and navigate based on selected Business Insight

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Figure 14: Available as beta: The existing Group Financial Statement Review Booklet has been enhanced with gen AI features for quick and immediate explanation and summarization of data insights in natural language

Please note that the usage of the AI use cases might require additional contracting and/or licensing. 

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Generally Available AI Innovations for Finance and Risk

Optimize your Finance operations with AI by increasing your efficiency, automating your tasks and improving your decision making. Several AI innovations for Finance & Risk which were so far part of the beta program are now generally available.

Value Proposition

  • Improve decision making
  • Increase efficiency
  • Automate tasks

AI Innovations

 

Figure 15: Several AI innovations for Finance & Risk which were so far part of the beta program are now generally available

For more information, see:

Please note that the usage of the AI use cases might require additional contracting and/or licensing. 

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Group Reporting

Review Booklet – New App with an Analytical Group View on Unreleased Accounting Data

You can use review booklet apps to display, analyze and validate data. They present an aggregated view of business data, which are displayed on predefined business pages. The Group View on Accounting Review Booklet app includes the following business pages: Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss - Nature of Expense, Profit & Loss – Function of Expense, Cash Flow Statement.

Value Proposition

  • Next generation of multidimensional analytical applications
  • Reuse analytical components, content, and features from SAP Analytics Cloud
  • Create UI consistency between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and SAP Analytics Cloud

Capabilities 

  • Display group reporting data
  • Analyze data at various levels of detail
  • Use global filters and page filters
  • Adjust the formatting
  • Export data

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Figure 16: The Group View on Accounting Review Booklet app includes  Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss - Nature of Expense, Profit & Loss – Function of Expense, Cash Flow Statement

For more information, see Group View on Accounting Review Booklet.

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Multiple Line-Validation Tasks on Group Reporting and Unreleased Accounting Data

Balance validation is a required step in both the data preparation phase and the consolidation phase. The consistency of reported, standardized, and consolidated financial data must be checked according to the balance validation rules bundled in rule groups that are assigned to each consolidation unit or consolidation group.

Value Proposition

  • New balance validation framework, which allows for the validation of accounting data and group reporting dimensions on the ACDOCA and ACDOCU tables
  • Holistic view of validation by integrating the accounting and group reporting world
  • Preview of the consolidation preparation phase even before local books are closed

Capabilities 

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Figure 17: With the new balance validation framework, you can validate accounting data and group reporting dimensions on the ACDOCA and ACDOCU tables

For more information, see Balance Validation.

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New API for Reading Group Reporting Transactional Data with a Reporting Item

This service selects transaction data that is included in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition or rule-based group reporting, such as reported financial data or consolidated financial data. Using this service, you can retrieve consolidated data including intercompany elimination and consolidation entries.

Value Proposition

  • Transfer group reporting transaction data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition  to SAP Analytics Cloud
  • Select transaction data that is included in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for group reporting with reporting rules, such as reported financial data or consolidated financial data
  • Retrieve consolidated data including intercompany elimination and consolidation entries

Capabilities

  • Available for customers using the new group reporting
  • Mandatory parameters:
  • Consolidation Unit Hierarchy ('$' for no hierarchy selection)
  • Profit Center Hierarchy ('$' for no hierarchy selection)
  • Segment Hierarchy ('$' for no hierarchy selection)
  • Hierarchy Valid On (date: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss)
  • Consolidation Reporting Item Hierarchy
  • Consolidation Reporting Rule ID
  • Available URL options are: $filter, $select, $sort, $orderby, and paging ($skip and $top)

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Figure 18: With the Reading Group Reporting Transactional Data API, you can transfer group reporting transaction data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition  to SAP Analytics Cloud

For more information, see the API on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub and Consolidation Group Journal Entry for Rptg Rule

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Option to Release Data from Prior Periods

For group reporting, the release universal journal (RUJ) task has been enhanced with two new prior periods modes. They enable you to process late coming postings without re-opening already closed periods and re-processing the RUJ task in current period mode as well as all subsequent consolidation tasks in respective periods.
Furthermore, you can transfer opening balances from accounting to group reporting.

Value Proposition

  • Process late coming postings from prior periods in the current period.
  • Transfer opening balances (data from period 0) to create a starting point for a consolidation unit in group reporting.

Capabilities

  • Prior Periods - Complete Data mode
  • Prior Periods - Delta mode
  • Document type 0I is used for data that is transferred from prior periods.

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Fig. 19: For group reporting, the release universal journal (RUJ) task has been enhanced with two new prior periods modes

For more information, see: Prior Periods Modes for Release of Universal Journal

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Group Reporting Data Collection: Integrate SAP Group Reporting Data Collection Packages with Group Reporting Data Monitor Tasks

Tasks from the SAP S/4HANA data monitor are integrated with SAP Group Reporting Data Collection in the Manage Packages app, and are then displayed in the Enter Package Data app. You can run a consistency check to verify that the package definition is consistent with the task group and ensure that the document types in the package definition align with the ones assigned to the data collection tasks in the data monitor. From the Manage Forms app, you can create forms with multiple periods and multiple fiscal years and in the Enter Package Data app, you can enter data for these periods and years within one form.

Value Proposition

  • Increased efficiency in the data collection process
  • Consistency between the package definition and the data monitor tasks
  • Understand the context behind answers and compare inputs across different business units

Capabilities

  • Integrate tasks from SAP S/4HANA data monitor
  • Define data entry steps based on tasks defined in the SAP S/4HANA data monitor
  • Define several periods, fiscal years, and versions for one form
  • Display comparative data in a form, which can include formulas that calculate the difference between the current period and the comparative period, year, or version

For more information, see: Manage Packages and Multiple Periods and Multiple Fiscal Years.

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Advanced Financial Closing

Direct Integration of SAP Advanced Financial Closing with SAP Build Process Automation

In SAP Build Process Automation, you can create workflows to perform specific steps, providing conditions, events, and a lot more. With the direct integration between SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Advanced Financial Closing, you can use SAP Advanced Financial Closing to schedule and trigger these workflows. After task processing, the status of the workflow is then reported back to SAP Advanced Financial Closing. This way, you can fully integrate workflows into your financial close in SAP Advanced Financial Closing. 

Value Proposition

  • Full integration of workflows into the financial close
  • Timely processing of workflows at the right time during the financial close
  • All information about closing tasks, now including workflows, in one place

Capabilities

  • Integration of workflows into the financial close in SAP Advanced Financial Closing
  • Leverage all workflow capabilities, such as integrating bots in workflows.
  • Automatic triggering of workflows based on scheduling capabilities of SAP Advanced Financial Closing
  • Custom variables from SAP Build Process Automation can be mapped to parameters in SAP Advanced Financial Closing.
  • Workflows can return a business status to be mapped to an accurate task status in SAP Advanced Financial Closing.

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Fig. 20: With the direct integration between SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Advanced Financial Closing, you can use SAP Advanced Financial Closing to schedule and trigger workflows (e.g. to perform specific steps) that have been built in SAP Build Process Automation

For more information, see:

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Treasury and Cash Management

Cash Positioning: Differentiate Pending and Approved Cash Flows

With this feature, you can set additional planning levels for cash flows during the payment approval process. It is an indicator to separate cash flows in payment from other normal cash flows. If no special planning levels are configured for specific payment events, Flow Builder assigns the original Planning Level from BSEG entries to cash flows. Meanwhile, empty company code entries act as the default setting for cash flows in case some company codes are not configured in the configuration item Assign Planning Levels for Cash Flow Payment Approval.

Value Proposition

  • Enable differentiation and identification of the payments that are expected but not approved.
  • Enable management of the bank balance to guarantee the unapproved payments can be identified and eliminated from the end balance calculation.
  • Enable follow-up of the relevant approver if the payment is not approved but expiration is coming around the corner.
  • Enable avoidance of the amounts left on the accounts due to the nonexecuted payments (the ones that were not approved) and allow proactive follow-up in case it’s noticed early enough.

Capabilities

  • Currently two kinds of payment events are supported. More payment scenarios can be added in the future:
  • BCM In Approval: It refers to the payment batch with related payment documents containing the Bank Communication Status DOCUMENT_IN_APPROVAL or DOCUMENT_CREATED.
  • BCM Final Approved: It refers to the payment batch with related payment documents containing the Bank Communication Status DOCUMENT_APPROVED.

For more information, see: Assign Planning Levels for Cash Flow Payment Approval

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In-House Banking

In-House Banking Dashboard: Payment Insights at a Glance

The In-House Banking Dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of activities related to payments from various applications, such as managing payment items, end-of-day processes, account balances, and overdrafts. Users can navigate to specific applications by clicking on the card titles and access additional tools through the Quick Links card. This app supports payment-centric monitoring, allowing users to view results at a glance.

Value Proposition

  • Track, value and report the impact of payment-related results
  • Reduce operational risks associated with overdrafts
  • Gain insights into the status of the latest end-of-day processes

Capabilities 

  • Dedicated status overview of the latest payment transactions
  • Monitoring capabilities of the related end-of-day processes
  • Display of the in-house bank accounts resulting in overdrafts
  • Overall balance at the bank area level per currency

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Fig. 22: The In-House Banking Dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of activities related to payments from various applications, such as managing payment items, end-of-day processes, account balances, and overdrafts

For more information, see: In-House Banking Dashboard

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In-House Banking: Enablement of Correction Posting and Backdated Changes of Master Data

Correction posting allows you to modify specified payment transactions, such as interests, fees, and withholding tax. With this functionality, you can manually adjust the relevant amount and specify the value date. You can do this by creating a correction posting in the Manage In-House Bank Account Balances app. It also enables backdated changes for master data, such as interests and fees, including the recalculation of already settled periods.

Value Proposition

  • Process corrections for interests, fees and withholding tax postings
  • Enter a backdated validity date for master data such as interests, fees, and limits
  • Recalculate process for already settled periods due to correction postings and/or back dated changes of master data

Capabilities 

  • Adjust master data for interests, fees, and limits with a validity date set in the past
  • Correct the settlement calculation by recalculation interests and fees
  • Enter correction postings for specified payment transactions, such as interests, fees, and withholding tax, and allow a value date entry in the past

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Fig. 23: The In-House Banking functionality for correction posting allows you to modify specified payment transactions, such as interests, fees, and withholding tax

For more information, see: Manage In-House Bank Account Balances

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Lease and Real Estate

Lease and Real Estate Accounting Review Booklet

With this app, you can review costs for your portfolio objects in Contract and Lease Management. The app provides an aggregated view of financial statements by combining predefined business pages grouped under the main areas of real estate and non-real estate portfolio objects. This collection of pages forms a review booklet that can be used to carry out a financial review. 

Value Proposition

  • The app gives you insights into your cost structures by comparing plan and actual costs using different time periods.
  • You can adjust the review booklet to your specific requirements, and use it as the basis for creating a custom review booklet.

Capabilities

  • With this app, you can review costs for your portfolio objects in Contract and Lease Management. The app provides an aggregated view of financial statements by combining predefined business pages grouped under the main areas of real estate and non-real estate portfolio objects. This collection of pages forms a review booklet that can be used to carry out a financial review. This gives you insights into your cost structures by comparing planned and actual costs using different time periods.
  • You can adjust the review booklet to your specific requirements, and use it as the basis for creating a custom review booklet.

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Fig. 24: With the Lease and Real Estate Accounting Review Booklet, you can review costs for your portfolio objects in Contract and Lease Management

For more information, see: Lease and Real Estate Accounting Review Booklet.

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Enhancements for Integrated Property Management Processes with Planon Real Estate Management for SAP

The enhancements for integrated Property Management processes with Planon Real Estate Management for SAP support the integration with asset management scenarios.

Value Proposition

  • The enhancements increase efficiency and enhance the user experience in running real estate and contract management processes.

Capabilities

  • Within the new Accounting Business Transaction Interface configuration item, you can make accounting-specific settings for the use of the Accounting Business Transaction Interface. In the configuration activities Define Real Estate Expense Type (ID: 106882) and Define Account Determination (ID: 106906) you define and check the settings for real estate expense types and the account determination used for accounting notifications of real estate cost allocation.
  • With the OData V4 API Real Estate Cost Allocation Accounting Notification - Post Journal Entry, you can post journal entries based on sent real estate cost allocation accounting notifications. Real estate cost allocation notifications are sent to the system and journal entries are posted according to the payload.
  • In the Manage Accounting Notification app (F7289), the Reference Document tab displays specific information about the accounting notification for real estate cost allocation.

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Fig. 25: The enhancements for integrated Property Management processes with Planon Real Estate Management for SAP support the integration with asset management scenarios

For more information, see: Real Estate Cost Allocation Accounting Notification - Post Journal Entry.

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Management Accounting

Determining Product Cost Breakdowns in the Plan Value Flow

The new Universal Component Breakdown (UCB) solution, included in scope item 7NH, offers a detailed breakdown of production and origin costs for manufacturing-related cost rates and products with quantity structures. This breakdown outlines product cost composition and forms the basis for the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) breakdown in product profitability analysis. Additionally, it provides a unified user experience for displaying cost breakdown results.

Value Proposition

  • Gain insights into production cost compositions to understand the effect of each cost component.
  • Evaluate changes in the ratios between direct or indirect costs, increased raw material expenses, or subcontracting costs.
  • Influence decisions for in-house production or outsourced manufacturing.
  • Obtain original production factors to see the impact of changes to your primary costs.
  • Analyze increases in energy prices, higher wage costs, or changes in depreciation rules
  • Understand product cost components or original cost factors and their deeper impacts.

Capabilities

  • Define production cost breakdown and origin cost breakdown structure according to own business needs.
  • Plan and display cost breakdown (production cost breakdown and origin cost breakdown) for plan cost rate.
  • Determine and display cost breakdown (production cost breakdown and origin cost breakdown) for manufactured products in material cost estimates.

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Fig. 26: The new Universal Component Breakdown (UCB) solution offers a detailed breakdown of production and origin costs for manufacturing-related cost rates and products with quantity structures

For more information, see: Product Cost Component Breakdown

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Quantity Breakdown of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Product Costing

This innovation enables you to calculate and analyze the quantity breakdown of greenhouse gas emissions (in carbon equivalents CO2e) for manufactured products in product cost planning. The calculated GHG Emission quantities and its breakdown of a product are used in the actual value flow, aiming to provide detailed insights into GHG emissions at the transactional level throughout the entire value chain where the products are involved in S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

Value Proposition

  • Obtain insights into total carbon emissions quantities for Plan Cost Rate,  Material Cost Estimates and Material Price.
  • View and analyze the GHG emission quantities in a breakdown view based on GHG Emission scopes for Plan Cost Rate and material cost estimates (only available for public-cloud greenfield users through the new scope item 6VN).

Capabilities

With this solution, you can display total GHG Emission Qty. and its breakdown based on GHG Emission scopes in the following applications:

  • Display GHG Emission Qty. breakdown for cost rate in app Manage Cost Rates – Plan and Display Cost Rate
  • Display GHG Emission Qty. breakdown for manufactured products in app Display Material Cost Estimates or Manage Material Cost Estimates.

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Fig. 27: The quantity breakdown of greenhouse gas emissions in product costing enables you to calculate and analyze the quantity breakdown of greenhouse gas emissions for manufactured products in product cost planning

For more information, see: Quantity Breakdown of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Product Costing

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Asset Accounting

SAP Fiori App 'Manage Asset Revaluation Index' for Automatic Revaluation of Fixed Assets

Revaluation allows you to update the value of an asset to its replacement value. For example, you may need to provide insurance values to your insurer. You use a price index to determine the replacement values. In the app "Manage Asset Revaluation Index" (F8119), you update index values regularly or irregularly for automatic revaluations based on index values. For automatic revaluation, the revaluation index must be active and linked to the master record of the asset. The system then automatically calculates and posts revaluation amounts during periodic depreciation posting run.

Value Proposition

  • Easy-to-maintain revaluation indexes
  • Flexible definition and validity assignment of indexes
  • Automatic revaluations based on index values to fulfill external or internal   accounting requirements or to report insurance values
  • Simultaneous use of automatic and manual revaluation for the same asset

Capabilities 

  • Display worklist of revaluation indexes
  • Create revaluation index
  • Display and change the lifecycle status of the index
  • Specify time-dependent index values manually
  • Display change documents
  • Delete revaluation index

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Fig. 28: Revaluation allows you to update the value of an asset to its replacement value. For example, you may need to provide insurance values to your insurer

For more information, see: Maintain Asset Revaluation Index

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OData V4 API 'Fixed Asset - Master Data'

The new OData V4 API Fixed Asset - Master Data (API_FIXEDASSET_G4BA) is available. You can use the new API to read, create, and change asset master records for main asset numbers and for asset subnumbers.

The previous SOAP APIs for asset master data are still available. You can use the new API as an alternative to the previous APIs. Note however, that the SOAP APIs for asset master data will be deprecated in a future release.

Value Proposition

  • Create multiple assets or change multiple assets in one request
  • Improve processing time and resource consumption of clients and servers
  • Easy to use and easy to configure

Capabilities

  • Create, change, and read master records for fixed assets

For more information, see APIs for Fixed Asset Master Data

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Asset Transactions” App: Journal Entry Tracing for Settlement

In the Asset Transactions app (F1614), there's a new view “Journal Entry Tracing for Settlement”. This view lets you see information about the settlement process for assets under construction (AuC) in your asset transactions list. If your AuCs are based on an investment measure with a WBS element, you can see where the costs come from. For independent AuCs, you can view the journal entry numbers for settlement to the completed asset and trace the entire journal entry chain back to the invoices posted to the independent AuC. 

Value Proposition

  • Evaluate Asset Accounting transactions by checking the source of postings to completed assets
  • Check postings for invoices and settlements to completed assets
  • Trace journal entries back to invoices posted to the independent AuC

Capabilities

  • Display original WBS element from investment measure
  • Display predecessor journal entry (relevant for independent AuCs)
  • Navigate to the Display Journal Entries app using a smart link and display the other preceding journal entries in the Associated Journal Entries area
  • Display the amount posted to the completed asset

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Fig. 29: With the 'Asset Transactions' App, you can evaluate asset accounting transactions by checking the source of postings to completed assets

For more information, see: Asset Transactions (App ID: F1614) – Journal  Entry Tracing for Settlement

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Post Asset Revaluation" App: Revaluation in Selected Currency

You can use the Post Asset Revaluation app (F7775) to manually revaluate assets in multiple currencies at the same time. Now, there is a new business transaction type Reval. in Selected Currency (RA61) to perform the revaluation in a single selected currency. This allows you to choose between revaluating in all affected currencies or just one currency across all ledgers.

Value Proposition

  • Differentiate between the standard case of revaluation (all affected currencies) and the specific revaluation (only one currency across all ledgers)
  • Reporting based on business transaction type

Capabilities 

  • Choose between the business transaction types in the app
  • Post the revaluation in a single (selected) currency

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Fig. 30: You can use the Post Asset Revaluation app to manually revaluate assets in multiple currencies at the same time

For more information, see: Post Asset Revaluation

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