FIN Profitability Analysis

Introduction This blog post continues a series of Controlling related topics, which circle around showcasing new functionalities in S/4HANA Cloud, comparing functionalities between SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private... Read More »

Background In an ideal scenario, business teams should have access to reliable sources of data that provide all the necessary information for conducting a thorough root cause analysis of manufacturing variances. This includes integrating all... Read More »

Overview Do you find yourself grappling with your company’s financial reporting and closing processes, struggling to achieve your management accounting objectives? The root causes of these issues can be multifaceted, ranging from inefficient... Read More »

What’s actually new within Margin Analysis within S4HANA (Cutting out the noise addressable by process 😉:   Split Profile for cost of goods manufactured / assembled (Goods issues): You can have a split profile for the products which you have... Read More »

In my previous blog Using Market Segments in Margin Analysis I explained the difference between the real market segments shown in the “Product Profitability with Production Variances” app (account assignment type EO) and the attributed... Read More »

If you wonder what are the options to create user-defined fields/customer characteristics in Margin Analysis and what are the pros and cons of each method, I will try to explain them in this article. We have now 3 ways of creating COPA... Read More »

Continuing the blog series on Universal Parallel Accounting, I will now look at the topic from the point of view of Inventory Accounting to explain the changes in Material Valuation, Product Cost Planning, Actual Costing and Balance Sheet Valuation.... Read More »

Continuing the blog series on Universal Parallel Accounting I will now look at the topic from the point of view of Overhead Accounting. If you haven’t already read it, please refer to Sarah Roessler‘s excellent introduction to the topic:... Read More »

Predictive Accounting: Predictive accounting enables us to look at and analyze data using a forecast of future results based on the most up-to-date data. It is used to create predictive journal entries based on the documents created for the... Read More »

This blog post explains Top-Down distribution in Margin analysis. Top-down distribution is a periodic function helps to distribute aggregated data to more granular level based on reference information such as revenue, customer group etc. In margin... Read More »