1 Organizational Structure

17

1.1 Financial Accounting Elements

17

1.1.1 Company Code

18

1.1.2 Chart of Accounts

20

1.1.3 Fiscal Year Variant

21

1.1.4 Currencies

22

1.2 Controlling Elements

24

1.2.1 Controlling Area

24

1.2.2 Segment

30

1.2.3 Profit Center

31

1.2.4 Functional Area

34

1.2.5 Operating Concern

36

1.3 Summary

37

2 Basic Settings

39

2.1 Number Ranges

39

2.2 Versions

43

2.3 Message Control

46

2.4 Account Assignment Logic

48

2.4.1 Validations

48

2.4.2 Substitutions

53

2.5 Document Summarization

57

2.6 Overview of SAP HANA

59

2.7 Summary

64

3 Cost Element Accounting

67

3.1 Master Data

67

3.1.1 Cost Elements for Expense Accounts

68

3.1.2 Cost Elements for Balance Sheet Accounts

76

3.1.3 Create Cost Elements Automatically

78

3.1.4 Delete Cost Elements

81

3.1.5 Cost Element Groups

82

3.2 Cost Element Attributes

86

3.3 Real-Time Integration of Controlling with Financial Accounting

88

3.4 Reporting

94

3.5 SAP HANA in Cost Element Accounting

96

3.6 Summary

96

4 Cost Center Accounting

97

4.1 Master Data

99

4.1.1 Cost Centers

99

4.1.2 Cost Center Standard Hierarchies

108

4.1.3 Alternate Cost Center Hierarchies

110

4.1.4 Cost Center Groups

112

4.1.5 Statistical Key Figures

113

4.1.6 Activity Types

114

4.1.7 Resources

120

4.2 Planning

121

4.2.1 Planner Profile

123

4.2.2 Planning Layouts

127

4.2.3 Activity Type Planning

130

4.2.4 Excel Upload of Planning Data

133

4.2.5 Planning Aids

137

4.2.6 Plan Data Transfer

143

4.3 Actual Postings

149

4.3.1 Manual Postings

149

4.3.2 Validation for Account Allocation

152

4.3.3 Default Account Assignment

156

4.4 Period-End Closing

158

4.4.1 Accrual Calculation

158

4.4.2 Overhead

166

4.4.3 Periodic Reposting, Distribution, Assessment, and Activity Allocation

175

4.4.4 Variances

191

4.5 Reporting

193

4.5.1 Expert Mode

193

4.5.2 Standard Reporting

195

4.5.3 Report Painter

199

4.6 SAP HANA in Cost Center Accounting

209

4.7 Summary

212

5 Internal Orders

213

5.1 Master Data

214

5.1.1 Order Type

214

5.1.2 Number Range

219

5.1.3 Status Management

221

5.1.4 Screen Layout

225

5.1.5 Investment Management

230

5.2 Planning

246

5.2.1 Plan Integration

246

5.2.2 Planning Methods

248

5.2.3 Planning Aids

253

5.3 Budgeting

258

5.3.1 Maintain Budget

261

5.3.2 Availability Control

262

5.4 Actual Postings

267

5.5 Period-End Closing

271

5.5.1 Maintain Allocation Structure

271

5.5.2 Maintain Source Structure

273

5.5.3 Maintain Profitability Analysis Transfer Structure

275

5.5.4 Maintain Settlement Profile

279

5.5.5 Maintain Line Item Settlement

281

5.5.6 Create Settlement Rules Automatically

285

5.6 Reporting

288

5.6.1 Standard Reporting

289

5.6.2 Dynamic Selection in Reports

289

5.7 SAP HANA in Internal Orders

292

5.8 Summary

292

6 Product Costing

295

6.1 Master Data

296

6.1.1 Material Master

296

6.1.2 Bill of Material

300

6.1.3 Bill of Material Usage

302

6.1.4 Activity Type

305

6.1.5 Work Center/Resource

306

6.1.6 Routing

308

6.1.7 Recipe

310

6.1.8 Cost Component Structure

312

6.1.9 Special Procurement Key

316

6.2 Costing

317

6.2.1 Costing Variant

317

6.2.2 Costing Sheet

333

6.2.3 Define Dependencies for Further Characteristics

339

6.2.4 Differentiate Overhead Rates with Overhead Groups

343

6.3 Cost Estimates

344

6.3.1 Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure

344

6.3.2 Material Cost Estimate without Quantity Structure

348

6.3.3 Additive Cost

349

6.3.4 Raw Material Cost Estimate

351

6.3.5 Multilevel Unit Costing

353

6.3.6 Mark and Release Prices

355

6.3.7 Costing Run

356

6.4 Reporting

359

6.5 Summary

364

7 Cost Object Controlling

365

7.1 Product Cost by Order

367

7.2 Product Cost by Period

372

7.3 Product Cost by Sales Order

375

7.4 Period-End Closing

377

7.4.1 Overhead Application

377

7.4.2 Work in Process

380

7.4.3 Variance Calculation

389

7.4.4 Settlement

395

7.5 Reporting

399

7.6 SAP HANA in Cost Object Controlling

401

7.7 Summary

404

8 Profitability Analysis

405

8.1 Master Data

409

8.1.1 Value Fields

409

8.1.2 Characteristics

411

8.1.3 Maintain an Operating Concern

418

8.1.4 Define Characteristics Hierarchy

425

8.1.5 Define Characteristics Derivation

427

8.2 Flows of Actual Values

431

8.2.1 Interface to Sales and Distribution

431

8.2.2 Transfer of Incoming Sales Orders

434

8.2.3 Interface to Product Costing

436

8.2.4 Direct Posting from Financial Accounting/Materials Management

439

8.2.5 Settlement of Internal Orders

443

8.2.6 Assessment of Cost Centers

446

8.3 Valuation

454

8.4 Planning

464

8.4.1 Planning Levels

465

8.4.2 Planning Package

466

8.4.3 Parameter Sets

468

8.4.4 Planning Aids

472

8.4.5 Integrated Planning

473

8.5 Reporting

475

8.5.1 Creating a Form

475

8.5.2 Creating a Report

480

8.6 SAP HANA in Profitability Analysis

483

8.7 Summary

483

9 Production Start-Up Preparation

485

9.1 Transport System Settings

486

9.2 Delete SAP Delivery Data

488

9.3 Follow-Up Postings

491

9.4 Cut-Over Activities

492

9.5 Summary

493

10 SAP S/4HANA Finance

495

10.1 Technical Changes due to SAP S/4HANA Finance

496

10.2 Impact on Controlling Configuration

500

10.3 Impact on Controlling Functionalities

509

10.4 Advantages of SAP S/4HANA Finance

513

10.5 Summary

515