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What is SAP S/4HANA Finance?
Initially released in 2014, SAP S/4HANA Finance is the core financial solution for SAP customers, designed to leverage the SAP Fiori user interface and in-memory computing power of HANA. Previously referred to as SAP Simple Finance and SAP ERP Financials, SAP S/4HANA Finance provides multiple innovations, such as the Universal Journal single source of truth, allowing organizations to streamline financial processes, with real-time updates and reporting, across a simplified data model for storing financial and managerial accounting information.
What is SAP S/4HANA Finance?
Initially released in 2014, SAP S/4HANA Finance is the core financial solution for SAP customers, designed to leverage the SAP Fiori user interface and in-memory computing power of HANA. Previously referred to as SAP Simple Finance and SAP ERP Financials, SAP S/4HANA Finance provides multiple innovations, such as the Universal Journal single source of truth, allowing organizations to streamline financial processes, with real-time updates and reporting, across a simplified data model for storing financial and managerial accounting information.
Many SAP ERP customers utilize SAP S/4HANA to manage core business functions that enable timely and accurate financial operations and reporting, such as accounting and finance, financial planning and analysis, financial risk management, and risk and compliance management. SAP S/4HANA Finance is a powerful and versatile system that can be deployed in multiple ways to suit your organization’s needs.
Key features of SAP S/4HANA Finance include:
- Unified real-time data model for storing all finance-related information
- Enhanced financial closing capability
- Centralization of account payables and account receivables
- Predictive accounting
- Embedded analytics
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
Start thinking about your SAP S/4HANA Finance journey now. In 2027, SAP expects to cease all new development for the core ERP and sunset support, requiring organizations to transition to S/4HANA Finance. Organizations that have yet to make the move to SAP S/4HANA Finance need to begin planning and develop a viable roadmap or risk falling behind their peers.
Reduce compliance risks by properly archiving financial information prior to SAP S/4HANA Finance transition. The size of your financial database directly impacts both the complexity and cost, which often leads to long timelines for moving everything over as well potential compliance risks that need addressing before they can be done. Achieve a high level of data protection by archiving critical financial information before it impacts performance, cost, or availability. Evaluate requirements for data cleanup to transfer historical data securely.
Leverage Central Finance in transition to SAP S/4HANA Finance as an opportunity to optimize core finance functions.Consolidating data from multiple sources and creating a single summary of the information is difficult. Central Finance can make this process easier, as it simplifies everything into one easily accessible place for greater visibility. Organizations can empower SAP S/4HANA Finance modules, applications, and extensions end-to-end with more accessible financial information.
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AI in internal audit: audit-ready, all the time – with the audit podcastDec 17, 2025 — In a valuable podcast, Datricks CEO Haim Halpern offers actionable strategies for Chief Audit Executives to transform their role from a cost center to a value driver, emphasizing real-time risk detection, organizational trust, and seamless integration of the Datricks platform for immediate insights into financial integrity.
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Rethinking Accounts Payable for SAP S/4HANAJul 25, 2025 — As finance teams accelerate digital transformation, many are discovering that traditional ERP systems like SAP S/4HANA don’t always meet the evolving needs of Accounts Payable. Compliance demands, automation gaps, and pressure to keep the ERP clean, can often lead to costly customizations and operational risk.
In this session, we explore why over 600 companies have chosen Basware to complement their SAP S/4HANA migration, enabling end-to-end invoice lifecycle management, global compliance, and a clean ERP core.
Watch this session to learn how to:
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- Maximize the value of your SAP S/4HANA investment.
- Automate invoice processing and ensure compliance—without custom code.
- Keep your SAP core clean and agile by avoiding unnecessary extensions
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Accelerate Finance Transformation with CCH Tagetik Powered by SAP HANADec 18, 2024 — CCH Tagetik offers a robust CPM solution that integrates with SAP HANA and enhances SAP ecosystems, making it a key consideration for businesses transitioning from SAP BPC and ECC to SAP S/4HANA, as discussed in an informative webinar aimed at improving financial processes and maximizing SAP investments. Fill the form below to watch the webinar on-demand
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Empower your Finance Users with SAP S/4HANA Embedded AnalyticsOct 9, 2024 — Click Here to View Session Deck Embedded analytics is one of the value drivers for a move to SAP S/4HANA as well a benefit. It is also one of the noteworthy innovations in SAP S/4HANA that benefits your finance organizations well as others. Yet it’s potential and value are not understood very well. With the […]
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Shift Your Paradigm from Operational Finance to Intelligent Finance with SAP S/4HANAOct 9, 2024 — Click Here to View Session Deck Finance organizations worldwide are looking to run in a more automated and intelligent manner so that they can become enablers of top, bottom, and green line growth. SAP S/4HANA finance provides many capabilities to do so, many of which are embedded in the core and others that can be […]
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Tips and Tricks to Ease SAP S/4HANA Finance Migration ChallengesOct 1, 2024 — Click Here to View Session Deck Your SAP S/4HANA Finance budget is approved, but, are you ready to start your SAP S/4HANA Finance project? Is your existing data consistent for you to successfully migrate? Understand the key data objects (such as customers/vendors, consistent items and balances, consistent FICO setup and more) that you need for […]
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From Legacy to Future: How Merit Energy Successfully Navigated their Finance Transformation with SAP S/4HANAOct 1, 2024 — Click Here to View Session Deck Every company that has a historic SAP footprint faces the question of not if, but when to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA and then the even bigger question: How are they going to do it? Just the first few questions of business case, timeline, Greenfield vs Brownfield, and cost can […]
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What You Need to Know About Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANAOct 1, 2024 — Click Here to View Session Deck With Material Ledger a required part of SAP S/4HANA Finance, walk through the design considerations associated with a migration, learn to configure the Universal Journal for transfer pricing, and learn about the changes that have been made to actual costing with SAP S/4HANA Finance. You will: Understand the Difference […]
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