SAP Accounting


SAP Accounting: An overview and key considerations 

What Is SAP Accounting?

SAP Accounting consists of two core modules that represent separate accounting books. SAP customers utilize SAP Financial Accounting (FI) for external reporting with financial statements and SAP Controlling (CO) for internal reporting purposes.

SAP Accounting enables organizations to deliver financial performance information necessary for effective decision-making by consolidating data from functional modules with powerful reporting tools. It is critical to ensure all aspects of an organization’s financials are integrated in a way that makes it easier for finance and accounting managers to access the information they need when they need it. SAP accounting modules are designed to make managing and reporting accounting data easier across organizations, teams, and roles, to support the generation of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.

For many organizations, SAP Accounting manages transactions across these core financial functions:

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

SAP Accounting: An overview and key considerations 

What Is SAP Accounting?

SAP Accounting consists of two core modules that represent separate accounting books. SAP customers utilize SAP Financial Accounting (FI) for external reporting with financial statements and SAP Controlling (CO) for internal reporting purposes.

SAP Accounting enables organizations to deliver financial performance information necessary for effective decision-making by consolidating data from functional modules with powerful reporting tools. It is critical to ensure all aspects of an organization’s financials are integrated in a way that makes it easier for finance and accounting managers to access the information they need when they need it. SAP accounting modules are designed to make managing and reporting accounting data easier across organizations, teams, and roles, to support the generation of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.

For many organizations, SAP Accounting manages transactions across these core financial functions:

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

Prioritize industry-specific and business process-related compliance needs across accounting and finance requirements. SAP Accounting is an essential component of SAP ERP that provides organizations with global processes and information to account for the new standards of accounting, while maintaining flexibility to incorporate regulatory updates. SAP Accounting solutions can help organizations effectively meet global accounting and financial reporting standards to enforce compliance.

Consider opportunities to modernize accounting workstreams and provide operational visibility across virtual teams.The transition to a fully remote working environment has caused difficulties for accounting professionals, particularly as it relates to their dependence on spreadsheets, inability to access data, limited process documentation, and daily manually intensive tasks. Organizations can automate their workflows with SAP Accounting tools, freeing them to do more optimization and customization.

Leverage SAP Accounting products to enable accounting teams to do more with less. COVID-19 variants, virtual work, supply chain disruptions, inflation concerns, and the Great Resignation, represent some of the major challenges creating uncertainty for organizations across the current operating environment. With the uncertainty of this economy, accounting is required to give more up-to-date information to make smarter decisions in real time.

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