If you are a subscriber to the Learning Hub, at times webcasts are offered. This is the first one I attended and it was very good.
Follow also the Learning Journey for Stay Current: SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Finance in the
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Above shows the releases with 1802 available today.
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Added 4 new countries
Working on Mexico, Norway, Austria, South Korea
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Minimal viable scope for localization
See plans for future versions
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"Keep investing in new features for existing countries"
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Impacted by changes in tax, reporting
It is a high priority
Inform everyone about legal changes and how they impact system
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You can add a tile for the app to inform yourself about the legal change
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Internal order is a temporary cost collector
From 1802 onwards, internal order is not supported
Simple project relates to internal order; has one work package
S/4HANA "principle of one" - internal order moves to simple project
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Manage simple to complex reporting
Machine learning and chatbots
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Changes are shown above between 1711 to 1802
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More transition
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Transition period is shown above
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Above is a summary; big news about internal orders - they are no more...
Predictive Accounting
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Predictive accounting extends reach of sales accounting - this will post in the extension ledger
Planned in 1808 to show expected revenues
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Analytical List Page with the filters on the top
Even if order is not fulfilled you have a journal entry in the extension ledger
Leonardo Payment Advice
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Uses Machine Learning from unstructured PDF documents
FI-CA
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First version; more to come in next release
Daily run to update Universal Journal
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Treasury has its own Learning map, above is a summary
For me the big take-aways were the changes to the internal order, and FI-CA is starting to move to the cloud.