Supplemental data and forms - Group Reporting

[g11600]

Hi

We are currently implementing GR at a large company, with around 400 entities being consolidated across over 50 countries - approximately half via cFin release, and half will load TB.

As part of month/quarter/annual close cycle we have a requirement to collect from controllers a lot of supplemental data beyond what's in cFin (or TB) - eg cashflow, changes in equity, lease liability, tax provisions etc etc as well as non-financial data such as FTE and sustainability, and management commentary. Most of these are collected on a country level basis, ie not strictly by consolidation unit.

Our legacy consolidation system (Hyperion Finacial Management) contained abilty to create 'webforms' to create this structured data with reference and validation against balances and metadata - but we can't see something similar in GR.

We are exploring Group Reporting Data Collection functionality for forms (manual data entry) but wanted to hear about other options - how are other companies managing this? Especially those who went live before GRDC was released?

Thanks very much

[Stephane_Neufcourt]

Hi Jonathan,

For manual data collection, the "Forms" feature of SAP Group Reporting Data Collection (GRDC) would indeed be our suggestion for manual data collection at group reporting level. GRDC is the "companion" app of Group Reporting for data collection. The GRDC's forms app is designed to create web forms that your subsidiaries can use to manually enter financial data, non-financials, KPIs and comments in Group Reporting, at ACDOCU level. You can find more information on GRDC here: https://blogs.sap.com/2021/12/13/sap-group-reporting-data-collection-in-brief/.

Kind regards,
Stéphane