Transforming Finance Operations with Touchless Record-to-Report by Redwood
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Managing the Journal Entry and Approval Process in Your SAP Systems: Live Q&A with Brian Shannon
To quickly and efficiently complete the financial close process, accounting teams require solutions that enable them to create and approve multiple journal entries in a very tight time frame. Standardizing and streamlining journal entry processes is essential, as every delay in journal entry processing delays the company’s ability to report its financial results. Dolphin’s Brian...…
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An Introduction to Posting Journal Entries in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Learn how to post journal entries for audited and controlled adjustments to planning data with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, including how to post, unpost, and delete journal entries. Key Concept All functionality in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation is designed with the business user in mind, and Journals is no exception. Traditionally, tasks such...…
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Set Up a Cash Journal to Enhance Your Internal Controls
See how to set up a cash journal and how to use it to record cash transactions and monitor your cash position. Key Concept Many companies have a petty cash account for small cash payments and receipts. To integrate petty cash with the SAP R/3 system, SAP developed the cash journal. The cash journal enables...…
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How to Automate and Streamline the Financial Close Process in Your SAP Systems
In this Q&A, experts provided tips and best practices for automating and streamlining the financial close process, including deep insight into suggested tools ways to leverage those tools for improved error management, faster data extraction, and greater efficiency. If you missed the chat or need a refresher, we welcome you to view the online chat...…
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Navigating Manual Journal Entry Challenges in SAP for a Streamlined Financial Close
In SAP, every transaction is a journal entry. The system doesn't differentiate between manual and automatic entries, making it hard to analyze them in the general ledger. Even though SAP ERP can create many journal entries automatically, manual corrections and inputs are still essential. Manual entries are often made for unique or irregular transactions that…
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The Universal Journal and Journal Entry Functionality in SAP Financial Close Solutions by BlackLine Explained
In a previous blog we talked about the benefits of the Universal Journal – the architecture of SAP S/4HANA. In that post, we focused how the Universal Journal eliminates intra-ERP reconciliations that were previously needed in legacy SAP environments like SAP ECC. Let’s expand upon that discussion and address the Universal Journal as it relates…
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Accelerating the Financial Close Process
In this article, you'll explore how solutions like FS2 JournalEntry automate processing, review and approval of all manual journal entries (recurring, intercompany, FX, etc.) and enables accurate and transparent reporting. The solution validates accounting information (e.g., cost centers) at initial upload/creation, automates the processing of non-PO invoices and expenses, enables touchless payment processing and provides…
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An Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: The Planning and Consolidation Features
Learn some of the different features and functions to support planning and consolidation requirements in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC). This includes creating input schedules for planning, posting journal entries, and using script logic for creating planning functions and consolidation logic in BPC. Key Concept Different clients are available to users in SAP Business...…
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Leverage Automation and Simplification for Better Journal Entry Transparency
While digital transformation has been a revolutionizing force for many aspects of the organization, this isn’t always the case for the journal entry process. Routings and approvals are still often handled manually through emails, spreadsheets, and physical signatures, which can cause delays and a lack of transparency into financial close processes. And when it is…
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A Simplified Approach for Consolidation of Investments
Learn how to automate consolidation of investments as you use Enterprise Controlling-Consolidation (EC-CS) and Strategic Enterprise Management-Business Consolidation System (SEM-BCS) functionality to expedite your period-end close. See how you can achieve this without a full-blown implementation of the consolidation of investments component. Key Concept The consolidation of investments (COI) component comes delivered with Strategic Enterprise...…
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