SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2005 – What’s New in Finance Help?

Get started with this new release by checking out the Finance help. Here are direct links to some of the changes:

Please note: As of May, 29th, there are additional help topics available. Below, they are marked with an asterisk (*).

Finance (General)

Key Concepts in Finance

The “Accounting Principles” topic is new. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/6b39bd1d0e5e4099a5b65d835c29c696/LATEST/en-US/50f1192d60274ed29eb0985bf46086df.html

Management Accounting and Margin Analysis

Overhead Accounting

The following new topics are available:

*Run Settlement – Actual – https://help.sap.com/viewer/c56f622a2edf491b9f1b596b55587009/Latest/en-US/65511a912abd45518fdab7d995304e47.html
*How to Perform a Settlement Test Run for a WBS Element – https://help.sap.com/viewer/c56f622a2edf491b9f1b596b55587009/latest/en-US/1be4d43bcd7f4605bcaed2456e0336ae.html
*How to Perform a Settlement Test Reversal for a WBS Element – https://help.sap.com/viewer/c56f622a2edf491b9f1b596b55587009/latest/en-US/a9a5b9fd76ac481abf6893dba930ab15.html

Predictive Accounting

*Examples showing how predictive accounting based on sales orders that undergo different changes, for example, a sales order item is added, changed or deleted. – Start here: https://help.sap.com/viewer/bd39d476d1e34b48afed98759286efd6/latest/en-US/5a8cdccda23348919ddfa8d3c208c0e7.html

Accounting and Financial Close

General Ledger Accounting

*Topics explaining the extension ledgers are available. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/0fa84c9d9c634132b7c4abb9ffdd8f06/latest/en-US/f2a1f5756fa148c8ae8ec338a2653fad.html
We now provide an FAQ topic for the Upload General Journal Entries app. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/0fa84c9d9c634132b7c4abb9ffdd8f06/LATEST/en-US/583f130d246a4c61ab954580fe21787a.html
*The following topic has been added: How to Download Financial Statements to a PDF File. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/0fa84c9d9c634132b7c4abb9ffdd8f06/latest/en-US/c684a8a14db74e2d88ebc30ce3271a79.html
*The following topic has been enhanced: Renumbering G/L Accounts: FAQ. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/0fa84c9d9c634132b7c4abb9ffdd8f06/LATEST/en-US/8f75423ca52f454298f4ce917d79df01.html
The “Rules for Substitution/Validation” topic describes how a user can create substitution/validation rules using the Journal Entry Item business context. It provides an overview of the fields that can be substituted and/or validated. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/0fa84c9d9c634132b7c4abb9ffdd8f06/LATEST/en-US/8837a41d09744bf7963720c41c9f5b83.html

Joint Venture Accounting (JVA)

The “Rules for Substitution/Validation” topic describes how a user can create substitution/validation rules for JVA. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/6f70d5966f2b492ea7378cd1da305f42/LATEST/en-US/1de4c0460c414b89ae545dbac06425dd.html

Asset Accounting

The “App Extensibility: Manage Fixed Assets” topic now also describes the features that are new with this release. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/3e5fcf2c768746049b5627bd5a42f720/LATEST/en-US/d005b509884040b18a9d6c092082a325.html
The “Time-Dependent Master Data” topic has been enhanced. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/3e5fcf2c768746049b5627bd5a42f720/LATEST/en-US/06ccd1f36a4944de91b8a819b1f254cb.html
The “Dates in Asset Accounting” topic is new. It focuses on the meaning of the asset value date and its default values. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/3e5fcf2c768746049b5627bd5a42f720/LATEST/en-US/9736dd51e2193946e10000000a44538d.html
This topic and its subtopics are new: Preparations for Production Operation and Configuration Options
– Set Up Company Code
– Perform Legacy Data Transfer with Subsequent Balance Carryforward
– Define Configuration Options
Start here: https://help.sap.com/viewer/3e5fcf2c768746049b5627bd5a42f720/LATEST/en-US/7835e0a28055487eb6b8100f8bb9fa21.html
CDS Views for Asset Accounting: We now have an overview table showing all released CDS views in Asset Accounting. You can search or filter for certain CDS views. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/0f69f8fb28ac4bf48d2b57b9637e81fa/Latest/en-US/5d1be150c2f64a81a5b1a0a72e6fa5c0.html
The following SOAP APIs for Asset Accounting are new: an API to create main asset numbers, an API to create asset subnumbers, and an API to change asset master data. The documentation explains how the APIs are structured and how you can use them. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/5bcca49998834de2b5533c36602e52a2/LATEST/en-US/560ade3edf964466b10cc918c50cfa8e.html

Treasury Management

Cash and Liquidity Management (and Invoice Management)

For the new app My Inbox – Process Rejected Payments, a new topic and a video have been created. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/186460fdc35a4b64a713da9bb00deb1e/latest/en-US/0f99b2cee70d4f7e8d84e1447f7a95e7.html
For the new app Manage Workflows – For Rejected Payments, a new topic has been created. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/186460fdc35a4b64a713da9bb00deb1e/latest/en-US/ac4f027d8d3b45b8b46b15ed7e8519da.html

Payments and Bank Communications

*Advanced payment management is now available. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/b8e68a90bfff4ff0906d5db5342bdece/latest/en-US/2945c7d799ac46f0bdb0267f9fd7a289.html

Treasury and Risk Management

An overview table now lists the archiving objects in Treasury and Risk Management – https://help.sap.com/viewer/e5ec5859d8e54df98492d80564a734c0/Latest/en-US/f8ba83ff72c04364b2162459761ee521.html

Financial Operations

Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Accounting

The new item interest calculation feature for SAP S/4HANA Cloud comes with five new apps and new configuration options. This is the entry page for the new section in the product assistance: https://help.sap.com/viewer/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/latest/en-US/4818d752c74e5721e10000000a423f68.html
*An interactive graphic provides an overview of the clearing process in AR Accounting. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/latest/en-US/a21af993466648b994144cdd15ab1a39.html
*A new topic is available giving information on error messages that may occur in the settlement run.- https://help.sap.com/viewer/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/LATEST/en-US/594060caf3ba48998dbb9f49bf8232b1.html

SAP Credit Management

*The new Credit Management reporting app is available on the launchpad, embedded with SAP Analytics Cloud. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/latest/en-US/81206ba216b14e9aa10f8735ad6d9b7a.html
*With a new app, you can display additional information that you have maintained for your business partners in SAP Credit Management: Display Credit Data – Additional Information. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/latest/en-US/85023a2b39ab4c6ea6b3a784b2b20340.html

SAP Collections Management

*The new Collections Management reporting app is available on the launchpad, embedded with SAP Analytics Cloud. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/latest/en-US/f00bbe0c9045469f9771f04a18da9191.html

Bank Statement Processing

The structure of the Cloud documentation has changed a bit. Now, the “Bank Statement Processing” sub-structure gives an overview of all relevant app descriptions and topics. Start here: https://help.sap.com/viewer/LATEST/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/en-US/e042e6cb0bae4718ba0e025825f73e88.html

Invoice Management

A new FAQ topic for the Manage Automatic Payments app is now available. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/031c345485b84c8c94265be9ef61d3a8/latest/en-US/0bf4918dd83a4e92bc87fc575166e93f.html
The video for the Import Supplier Invoices app has been updated. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/031c345485b84c8c94265be9ef61d3a8/latest/en-US/7a000500308242f181aa50e5f3aacdba.html
The following new archiving objects have been documented:
A topic for the new CDS view Payment Method for Country is available. – https://help.sap.com/viewer/0f69f8fb28ac4bf48d2b57b9637e81fa/latest/en-US/2f5c7a86c32c406781defd5cc73c775b.html

For additional topics, also check under “Cash and Liquidity Management”.

Video Library for Finance

The following changes have been made in the Video Library for Finance (https://help.sap.com/viewer/6b39bd1d0e5e4099a5b65d835c29c696/Latest/en-US/7640423ccc9a4f43830433ab66c2f9c0.html):

The Video Library for Finance has been restructured to account for the ever-growing number of how-to videos. The library includes nearly a dozen new videos, many of them on tax-related topics and on machine learning in bank account maintenance.
You can now use the “Search within Video” feature to search for certain key words in videos in English and German.
We provide all videos with captions in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud languages.
Some videos have been recreated in other languages, for example in German and Russian:

Videos in German

· Hauptbuchbelege buchen: https://help.sap.com/viewer/0fa84c9d9c634132b7c4abb9ffdd8f06/2002.500/de-DE/950f8054747b053de10000000a441470.html

· Buchungskreisübergreifender Handelsprozess für Devisengeschäfte: https://help.sap.com/viewer/e5ec5859d8e54df98492d80564a734c0/Latest/de-DE/1508da531198434de10000000a174cb4.html

Video in Russian

Introducing the Manage Fixed Assets App: https://help.sap.com/viewer/3e5fcf2c768746049b5627bd5a42f720/Latest/ru-RU/aec7ecb2ee11437bbbc2041572be9612.html