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Financials Collective bills

Adding customer fields to a task

Adding documents to a task

Additional calculation logic for acquisition with value adjustment

Archiving of billable items

Bill cycle synchronization

Changes to tasks in the task list

CO-FI real-time reconciliation

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Financials Document recording

Defining multiple destinations for SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood in the cockpit

Distribution of master data

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Easier ways of creating and releasing task lists

Enhanced functions for organizational units

Enhanced user interface for bank statement postprocessing

Enhancement of automatic calculation logic for postcapitalization

Enhancement of decision logic for the useful life and ratio

Enhancement of transfer of legacy asset transactions

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Enhancements in collections management

Enhancements in integration with the SAP Collections Dispute Management application

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FI-CA events with BRFplus

Function enhancement for downloading task lists

Improved authorization concept

Improved performance in the cockpit

Improvements in billable item class configuration and administration

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Financials New status of a task

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Mass upload, storage, and dispatch of electronic bank statements (Swift MT)

Master data objects: - Provider contract - Product

Multicurrency accounting

Parallel accounting in ledger approach with multiple fiscal year variants

Parallel document archiving

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Parallel document archiving

Period-end closing according to Zhang Jie Fa

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Reorganization of segments

Re-rating and reversal in SAP Convergent Invoicing

Setting the current template or task list as the default

Tax posting date and tax reporting

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Time zones are supported

Time-dependent G/L account description

Transfer of unbilled commitments to the SAP Credit Management application

Treatment of prepaid usage and refills

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Financials Bill cycle

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Additional functions included in convergent invoicing

Billable item management

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Billable item management

Billable items - configuration and generation framework

Calculation of activity prices to reflect multiple accounting approaches

Chile: material ledger report

Closing tasklist: Dependency for all closing tasks

Closing tasklist: Display details of status change for remote tasks

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Closing tasklist: Display details of status change for remote tasks

Closing tasklist: Field display - critical path, role

Closing tasklist: Mass change in closing tasklist

Closing tasklist: Simultaneous availability to multiple users

Closing tasklist: Status reason maintenance

Closing tasklist: Stop scheduled closing task

Closing tasklist: Supporting office document addition

Closing tasklist: Task selection

Closing tasklist: Workflow status update

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Closing template: Assign responsible users to folders

Closing template: Assigning calendar to closing process folder

Closing template: Define dependency at node level

Closing template: Incorporation of a plant as a closing organizational structure

Closing template: Mass change functionality in closing template

Closing template: Transport closing template with necessary components

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Creating service requests from financial and controlling transactions

Customer and vendor fact sheet in accounting interaction center (AIC)

Error correction handling

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Fixed asset accounting: reporting on segments and profit centers

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Fixed asset accounting: reporting on segments and profit centers

Handling of incoming and outgoing electronic payment advices

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Inclusion of multiple activity prices in periodic costing run

Inclusion of multiple activity rates in alternative valuation run

India: tax code defaulting based on vendor supplying region

Integration with SAP Workflow: Execution and monitor from closing cockpit

Invoice-level discounts and charges

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Launching financial transactions from a shared services framework (SSF)

Linking financial objects to service requests

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Linking financial objects to service requests

Mapping of ERP cost elements to expense types from CRM funds management

New features in process integration between SD and FI-CA convergent invoicing

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New features in process integration between SD and FI-CA convergent invoicing

New General Ledger Accounting 3

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New General Ledger Accounting 3

New input channel for SD documents to be processed in convergent invoicing

Pre-requisite migration programs/settings for India IT depreciation calculation

Reconciliation between SD and FI-CA

Separation for closing task list creation and template maintenance

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Service request search in SAP ERP

Single and summarized document transfer

Support for non-SAP systems in SAP

Collections Management application

Transfer of depreciation from asset accounting to controlling

Functionality DescriptionYou can define additional customer fields for a task and edit the fields in the closing template or in the task list. You also have the option of using a BAdI to fill the fields.

You can use this function to add documents to a task. Those documents can be Microsoft Office documents (from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint), PDF documents, text files, or URLs. You can add documents with different formats to a single task. The documents can be imported or created from within the application.

Provides the correct judgment to recognize acquisition with the value adjustment and start the declaration year of the calculation of tax evaluation amount by the ordinary depreciation start date and the capitalization date.

In SAP Convergent Invoicing, transactions to be billed are received and processed. At the end of the process chain, these items are stored as billed items linked with a billing or invoicing document. Due to the high volume of billed items, users must archive these items from time to time a business and a legal requirement.

The bill cycle in SAP Convergent Invoicing controls the usage cut-off date of a bill period. To guarantee consistent use of the usage cut-off date, the bill cycle in SAP CRM, SAP Convergent Invoicing, and SAP Convergent Charging must remain synchronized. The provider contract handles distribution of the bill cycle.

This function enables you to make changes to the task list after it has been created. For example, you can change the definition of a task, add new tasks, or delete tasks.

The new GL CO-FI real-time reconciliation has been enhanced according to the needs of JVA by allowing reconciliation postings for cross-venture CO postings.

The use of the collective bill functionalities is now enabled for an industry application: extended FI-CA (FI-CAx).

Customizing options have been enhanced to establish a working document splitting process as in JVA. Following options have been added - Usage of JVA split processor: customers have an option to decide which split processor is used for the creation of the JVA documents (JV integration manager with hard-coded split logic or JVA-enabled new GL. online splitter) - Split result verification (off, warning, or error message): additional special customizing options for JVA and new GL provides automatic settings if possible and then interactively forces the customer to enter the necessary attributes for the new GL or JVA settings. - JVAFI currency validation: new GL CO-FI real-time reconciliation (with option for cross-joint venture)

You can define destinations and isolation groups in templates, thereby enabling you to use different destinations for SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood in different templates. You need this function to separate completely the tasks of the different templates in SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood (for example, for different country groups). You can use two new fields (destination and isolation groups) in the basic data of the template.

The distribution and synchronization of master data between FI-CA in SAP ERP and SAP Convergent Charging is supported starting with this business function. Contract accounts receivable and payable automatically distributes and synchronizes master data witth SAP Convergent Charging. SAP Convergent Charging handles the master data of contract accounts receivable and payable as follows when you create or change master data - Contract accounts receivable and payable distributes business partners to SAP Convergent Charging as subscriber accounts. - Contract accounts receivable and payable distributes contract accounts to SAP Convergent Charging as external accounts. - Contract accounts receivable and payable distributes prepaid accounts to SAP Convergent Charging as prepaid accounts. If you are using SAP Customer Relationship Management, enter the master data there and then distribute it to contract accounts receivable and payable in SAP ERP system. Following that, the ERP system ensures that the master data is successfully forwarded to SAP Convergent Charging.

JVA document recording has been enhanced to provide the GL with JVA-relevant fields and reporting information. JVA-specific processes have been adapted to ensure consistent JVA reporting based on new GL data. In JVA there are special reports that change equity group and recovery indicator. Currently these changes are made only in the JVA tables. To ensure consistent new GL and JVA reporting, including equity group and recovery indicator, the following reports above need to be adapted to post FI documents rather than JVA documents: equity change and farm infarm out suspense.

The new GL split functions are used by the joint venture integration manager of joint venture accounting (JVA) to achieve transparency, configurability and stability - JVA fields as new general ledger split criteria. The new GL splitter has been adapted such that the JVA fields can be handled as a split criterion or as variables that can be manipulated by JVA split preparation venture (VNAME), equity group (EGRUP), recovery indicator (RECID), or original recovery indicator (ORECID) - Enhanced split logic: new GL provides interfaces (BAdI) for special JVA features like presplit preparation of FI data and postsplit processing for posting into JVA tables - JVA-related enrichment (MM postings, cash call process, partner netting process, and reconciliation (FI/CO)

With reports create task list (CREATE_TASKLIST) and create multiple task lists (CREATE_TASKLISTS), you can create, release, and subsequently schedule task lists without additionally having to call up the cockpit using the transaction Closing Cockpit: Create Task List (transaction CLOCOT). This approach allows you to create and release task lists on a daily or weekly basis more efficiently.

When you create new tasks or new folders in a template that are relevant for all organizational units, you can simply copy them to all organizational units. You can replace a task or a folder in all organizational units. Similarly, you can also delete a task or a folder from all organizational units.

This function supports the user during postprocessing of bank statement line items that could not automatically be cleared by the software. Examples of new features to increase user productivity - Correct or complete the payment information (note to payee) and repeat automatic matching - Special support of payment advices and transactions related to checks and DME files, such as advice or check number search - Dynamic search criteria for invoices and other documents - Support of on account postings and entering additional general ledger line items - Posting templates for recurring postings like charges - Improved integration into the SAP Collections and Dispute Management application and financial shared services - Enhanced user experience and personalization

- Provides the correct judgment on the start declaration year of the calculation of tax evaluation amount - Provides the correct and cumulative calculation of tax evaluation amount from declaration year YYYY if both the capitalization date and the ordinary depreciation start date are YYYY/Jan/01

Enables the report to pick up the appropriate value of useful life of the asset maintained for the year in process from the time-dependent data and chooses the depreciation ratio accordingly

Enhancement enables users to set quantity, quantity unit, and reference document number in legacy asset transactions. These three values are necessary for the asset retirement or the asset transfer to be correctly calculated and listed in the property tax report for Japan (RAIDJP_TAX).

- The champion collection strategy can now be replaced by the challenger collection strategy for a predefined master data selection. - Collection strategies can now determine the collection step based on BRFplus.

From the list of dispute cases, users can now navigate to objects of billing and invoicing within FI-CA: documents, invoicing documents, invoicing items, and billable items. If a dispute case has been replicated from a dispute case in SAP CRM, navigation to that dispute case is enabled.

Instead of coding function modules in FI-CA events, you can generate a BRFplus function and develop process or check logics in the BRFplus function. The option is provided for selected FI-CA events.

You can now download task lists with notes in files, such as Microsoft Excel or other data types.

After activating this function in customizing, you can manage authorizations in the SAP Financial Closing cockpit with greater precision. With the new authorization concept, you can make a distinction between three user groups: - 03 Display Authorization to display task lists - 02 Change Authorization to make changes to the task list (including mass changes) - 16 Execute Authorization for the restricted processing of the task list for closing activities, such as executing tasks, changing statuses, locking tasks, or scheduling jobsConsequently, you can restrict the assignment of authorization for activity 02 to a small number of users.

Performance is improved for various functions with the following enhancements: - Loading data for dependencies - Option of mass scheduling as background processing - Controlled storage of settings to the task overview (CLOCO) - Updates in selected tasks only - Details only determined when called explicitly from the context menu

- Improvements in maintenance of billable item classes: - Enablement of the solution for parallel processing of single contract accounts, based on flexible grouping criteria - Simplified extension of billable item classes to support industry and customer fields - Improved performance of billable item selection - Archiving of billing and invoicing documents as a parallel processes is provided - Central monitor for billable item selection and cross-item status

- House bank accounts automatically updated as soon as bank statement files provided by the house banks - Upload of multiple files and input paths supported' ability to monitor the upload with an integrated application log - Exception handling and storage function supported - Ability to dispatch the files to additional systems - Support of standard formats (MT940/MT942/BAI)

Provides master data objects (provider contract and product) to be used in an integrated scenario with SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), contract accounts receivable and payable (FI-CA) in SAP ERP, and SAP Convergent Charging. SAP CRM is the leading system for the product and the contract. That means that you create and change provider contracts and products in SAP CRM system and replicate them to the connected systems. In contract accounts receivable and payable and in SAP Convergent Charging, you can access only the data of provider contracts and products that you need to carry out business processes in these components.

Multicurrency accounting in SAP ERP Financials (general ledger: GL) enables financial institutions to handle multicurrency processing and accounting (MCA) in the GL at the position level. MCA represents the management of all GL accounts in the original currency (transaction currency) as well as the valuation of central FX position accounts. Financial institutions require a common position management and FX revaluation process - To transform their profit and loss in foreign currency into the functional currency with which the foreign currency exposure can be assessed - To manage their exposure in foreign currency based on one or multiple positions - To revaluate currency positions at any given time for all nonfunctional currencies - To transform their profit and loss in foreign currency into the functional currency with which the foreign currency exposure can be assessed

The new status, Checked, can now be used in the SAPGUI user interface. You can set this status manually only after the task has undergone a final check. This approach provides you with the option of checking the task again after it has been processed successfully, either by the system (the status is set automatically) or by yourself (the status can also be set manually).

- This functionality supports the assignment of a fiscal year variant (FYV) per depreciation area in fixed asset accounting as long as the fisal year (FY) begin date and FY end date coincide across the FYVs. - It supports execution of depreciation runs per depreciation area assigned to the same ledger group. - It provides correct period value reporting in fixed asset reporting and in asset explorer in accordance with the assigned FYV. - The functionality can be explicitly activated.

Document archiving can now run as a mass activity in contract accounts receivable and payable. As a result, you can process the documents in parallel in multiple runs.

Document archiving can now run as a mass activity in contract accounts receivable and payable. As a result, you can process the documents in parallel in multiple runs.

All state-owned companies that belong to SASAC should fulfill the requirements of Zhang Jie Fa to complete period-end closing. Zhang Jie Fa means that at every month-end, the balance of P/L accounts are carried forward to a retained earnings account, and that after month-end closing, the balance of all P/L accounts are zero.

Posting areas offer a flexible way to store and access customizing data. You can use them to define the key fields, the access sequence, and the dependencies of key fields to function fields. Posting area views help reduce the number of required entries in posting areas.

This new function offers an easier and more transparent way to reassign your segments in the general ledger of SAP ERP, offering a single point of entry along with auditable and role-based process administration. A reorganization plan manager creates a reorganization plan as the basis for generating the object lists that the manager presents to those responsible for editing (reassigning) the segment-carrying objects (like profit center, receivables, payables, assets, and so on). After this step, the reorganization plan manager starts changing all the objects assigned by the objects owners. Afterward the manager triggers the reposting of the balance sheet accounts. Once all changes and postings are performed, the reorganization plan is closed.

SAP Convergent Invoicing guarantees that when rated events have to be rated again the items already processed are kept consistent. Depending on the status (not yet billed, billed, excepted, or raw) the processed item will be reversed, removed, or credited in SAP Convergent Invoicing. This function is configurable according the business needs of the company.

You can set a template or a task list as the default setting. In this way, the default setting is applied automatically when you call the cockpit (using transactions CLOCOT, CLOCOC, or CLOCO), without requiring you to specify the template from the list of templates or task lists.

The tax reporting date can now be transmitted to G/L accounting documents. In event 0067, the tax on the sales and purchases code of G/L items can be replaced according to your own logic or country-specific logic to meet the legal requirements for handling tax on sales and purchases for credits.

You can select different time zones in the cockpit. The time information is then displayed in the selected time zone.

Account balance transactions IDCNACCTBLN, FS10N, and FAGLB03 display G/L account description time dependently only at the accounting document detail level, where the posting date can be derived.

Contract accounts receivable and payable now also transfers credit exposure for billable items and billed but not yet invoiced items from SAP Convergent Invoicing to SAP Credit Management. This functionality enables early information about usage and consumption that has not yet been billed and posted as receivables.

- The full prepaid business is covered: - Refill of prepaid balances using different refill channels - Processing of prepaid usage - Creation of GL-relevant postings - Closing handling for expired prepaid accounts - Reporting of complete prepaid history of a prepaid account - Full integration with SAP CRM and SAP Convergent Charging

- Trigger installment plan deactivation

- Release security deposits

- Trigger account maintenance

- Change or assign dunning procedure

- Billable items can be stored based on the status of the items

- Monitoring is provided to display and track exceptional items

The following activities can be executed during the invoice process in convergent invoicing:

The bill cycle assignments to contract accounts allow a periodic billing based on configured billing periods.

- Items can be stored based upon the type of category (for example: receivables items, payment items, and so on)

Adds job parameters to the detail screen

- Incomplete billable items can be stored as suspended data, which may be modified in later processing steps

A configuration and generation framework is provided to support the creation of billable items database tables and the creation of access and update function modules

During all operational processes (such as confirmations and backflushing in logistics), the hours worked are valued with the planned activity rate in version 0 in controlling. At period close, activity price calculation is used to determine the actual activity rates for the leading version (international accounting standard) and the alternative version (local GAAP) in that period. Both are calculated as deltas to the initial standard activity price.

The material ledger report (J_CL_Material_Ledger) now returns results, whether or not summarization of accounting documents is activated

Closing task dependency affects all task types including manual closing transactions and notes

The fields critical path and role are added to the task overview and detail display

Add supporting office documents to a close task

Update the status of workflow in the closing cockpit

- Displays various information regarding the remote tasks, along with SAP Central Process Scheduling detailed status, which reflects the general close status more precisely

Identify multiple closing tasks and change the attributes of those tasks (for example, processor, responsibility, time, status) simultaneously by use of mass change.

Upload or change office documents and notes in the tasklist display mode. Other activities related to the maintenance of the tasklist will be possible only in the change mode, like in the former solution.

When changing the closing task status manually, a pop-up will occur where the reason for the status change can be inserted

Rescheduling or stopping of closing tasks via the closing cockpit for local and remote tasks

Filter the closing tasks in the whole tasklist context via search criteria such as processor, responsible role, critical path, and so on, and identify the task or tasks that the user would like to access.

Assign responsibility to the relevant closing task group or folder

Assign relevant factory calendar to closing task group or folder

Define the sequence of closing tasks at the group level

- Includes the plant as an organizational hierarchy for closing template definition

Support the transport of all necessary components of the closing template

- Allows accountants to distinguish the plant-specific and non-plant-specific closing tasks

Allows closing planners to perform necessary changes to rules definition of the closing template in batch mode

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This feature enables an accountant to request a service from the finance shared services organization directly from a financial or controlling transaction, which creates a service request out of the business context. Context data is transferred automatically into the service request, which is sent directly to the inbox of a shared services team for further processing.

The fact sheets are on hand and used to give a shared services employee all necessary information about a business partner in order to answer the most common questions of the partner during first contact. The fact sheets offer finance-related information like account balances, open items, correspondences, credit, disputes, collections information, as well as open service requests and master data information. All fact sheet views offer drill-downs into finance details, which enable the SSC employee to access all necessary data. The fact sheet views are configurable and the display can be freely defined.

- Aggregated report on changes in tangible fixed assets and further FI-AA reports on the level of the segment and profit center entities

- Reports in FI-AA offer the option to select and sort on the level of segment and profit center

entities. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse component reports and queries on fixed assets can be created with the segment and profit center entities.

- A check to ensure that a unique profit center and segment is derived during posting is also available

The new feature supports automatic handling of outgoing and incoming payment advices created in the SAP ERP application back-end (after the payment run). If the customer selects the option to make use of the new functionality, the payment data of SAP ERP will be transported via services to SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) offering. In SAP NetWeaver PI, the system creates an XML-based payment advice and outputs the attachment based on the information from the corresponding business partner to an e-mail that is sent automatically to the beneficiary of the payment. The feature also supports the import of payment advices via e-mail using SAP NetWeaver PI.

- Allows the periodic costing run to use activity price from leading valuation to determine the cost of goods manufactured according to the global accounting standard, and update the inventory values accordingly

- May also be used to calculate actual costs according to the local accounting standard, if the group accounting approach is standard costs

Allows multiple valuation runs to be created to determine the value of the cost of goods manufactured. The periodic costing run uses the activity price for the leading valuation (version 0) while the alternative valuation run uses the activity price for the alternative valuation. It is then possible to revaluate inventory (create closing entries) to take account of both valuations.

This functionality provides for defaulting the tax code based on vendor subrange at purchase order creation.

Execute and monitor workflow and workflows with worklists from the closing cockpit and enable the processing status to be set and the process repeated for workflow with worklists.

Already-existing discount functionality has been enhanced to allow a customer a specific discount and charge calculation based on individual items

The interaction center or SSF consists of a configurable navigation bar that can launch financial transactions running in the SAP ERP back-end systems. This feature delivers the technical precondition (business object repository objects and methods) to launch a transaction from the interaction center.

- Allows you to link business objects, especially from the finance and controlling areas, to a service request

- Allows you to link objects from within the service request itself using object-specific help or from transactions launched from the shared service framework

- Allows you to link service requests to accounting objects like documents

The functionality provides full process integration regarding:

- Transfer of SD bills to be processed in convergent invoicing in FI-CA

- Reversal of SD billing and FI-CA invoicing documents

This customizing table allows companies to map cost elements available in SAP ERP with expense types from CRM funds management enabling more accurate postings of commitments and actuals to CRM funds management.

- Status of the SD billing document and the document flow in SD is adjusted according to the status in convergent invoicing

Impairment postings (IAS 36) supported

Totals read from archive (FI)

Multi-GAAP valuation (material inventory)

Number assignment during asset transfer

- Integration of down payment requests and down payment settlements within convergent invoicing

Enhanced reports for reconciliation between Materials Management and General Ledger Accounting (New)

Actual comparison between ledgers (FI)

- Allows the customers to maintain the Asset Block details

- Enables the assignment of assets to the Blocks

- Split new transaction, CLOCOT, from existing transaction, CLOCOC

Update of internal revenues between profit centers in General Ledger Accounting (New)

Creation of the SD billing document triggers creation of a FI-CA invoice order, which is processed via convergent invoicing (accounting interface RWIN is bypassed).

This new approach will solve the main issues of todays approach using FI-CA sample documents:

A reconciliation report between SD and FI-CA is delivered and used to check if any inconsistencies occur during reconciliation between SD and FI-CA.

This feature enables accountants who created service requests from financial transactions to view service requests to find out the processing status or to update the service request, if necessary.

This feature allows a single document level and summarized document transfer in a distributed financials system environment.

This feature provides a framework to connect non-SAP systems to a central SAP Collections Management application to facilitate a common and unified collection

process independent of where the outstanding receivables originate from. Technically, the accounts receivable data from the non-SAP systems is loaded into SAP Collections Management. This enables worklist creation and the execution of collection calls (including promise-to-pay agreements, creation of dispute cases, and resubmission) to the customers with outstanding receivables from the non-

SAP systems.

The depreciation values for the international accounting principle are updated to the leading ledger in the SAP General Ledger application (or the global accounts in the classic general ledger) and to version 0 in controlling. The depreciation values for the second accounting principle are updated to a nonleading ledger in the SAP General Ledger (or the local accounts in the classic general ledger) and to a delta version in controlling.

Business Benefits

Ability to add customer fields for a task to record more information

Ability to add multiple documents with more formats supported

Correct tax evaluation amount in cases of acquisition with value adjustment

- Billed items can be archived according to business and legal rules - Archived items can be included in business processes (like invoicing and billing reversal)

Consistent treatment of the bill cycle (usage cut-off date) in the related applications

Ability to change the task list after it has been created

- Improved reconciliation between JVA and GL (RXD, UXD, and profit center accounting) - Enhanced reporting capabilities in GL with JVA venture and EG entities

A collective bill can now group individual documents in one collective bill posting document for joint processing.


Ability to define a different destination in SAP Central Process Scheduling in different templates

When master data distribution is active, master data is automatically distributed from SAP ERP to SAP Convergent Charging each time a master data object is created or changed in contract accounts receivable and payable.


Functionality for change in useful life


Create and release task lists more efficiently daily or weekly

Ability to copy tasks to all organization units and change or delete tasks in all organizational units

- Fast and efficient processing - Rerun of automatic matching reduces manual steps - Clearly arranged user interface with details on assigned amounts, note to payee information, clearing, simulation, and posting views

Reports cover the correct calculation of tax evaluation amount in case of post-capitalization

An add-on program, Property Tax Report for Japan (RAIDJP_TAX), correctly calculates the tax evaluation amount, for legacy asset retirement and legacy asset transfer.

- The master data update for assignment of a new challenger collection strategy can be more precise without manual intervention. - BRFplus as the actual decision engine based on FDT can be used in standard.

Integration of SAP Convergent Charging, SAP Convergent Invoicing, receivables management, financial customer care, and dispute management regarding for dispute handling

Ability to download task lists with notes

Improved performance in data access, scheduling, and processing

Business users can adopt and adjust customer-specific events easier and faster with BRFplus functions in FI-CA events.

Ability to restrict the change of task list to limited users

- Simplified configuration reduces system configuration effort - Parallel processing of data for one single contract account and archiving of billing and invoicing documents is now possible

Document archiving can run faster and more frequently.

- File upload is automated and accelerated through a reduction of manual processing. - House bank accounts are automatically updated as soon as bank statement files are provided by the house banks. - Application log is provided to retrace single steps and exceptions after importing and processing

With integrated use of contract accounts receivable and payable, SAP Convergent Charging and CRM, SAP CRM is the leading system for master data. That means that provider contracts and products are entered and changed in SAP CRM and replicated afterward to SAP ERP and SAP Convergent Charging. SAP ERP keeps only the information for the provider contract and product that you need directly for the business transactions that take place in SAP ERP.

An overall view of the currency status is possible only at the GL level because as every transaction, banking or nonbanking, is recorded on GL accounts. Therefore, a multicurrency-compliant GL provides the following benefits - Display of the correct and complete status of assets and liabilities and the exposure in each transaction currency in the company's books - Transparent and traceable origin of on-balance-sheet FX positions by calculating and posting the valuation result

New status, Checked, is supported in SAP GUI, so that it is consistent with the Web UI

Support for parallel accounting with shifted periods between multiple valuations

Document archiving can run faster and more frequently.

Allows period-end closing according to the requirements of Zhang Jie Fa

Reduction of manual work in maintenance of posting areas during an implementation project lowers TCO.

Ability to default the template or task list

Meeting requirements of changed legal rules

- Comprehensive, consistent, and transparent process without needing IT support - Auditable process with documentation about what, who, when the reorganization has been performed - UI framework offers adoption for user-specific needs

Re-rating independently of the processing status of the billable item is supported

Ability to select different time zones

Delivery of legally required functionality to Chinese customers

A connection between SAP Convergent Invoicing and SAP Credit Management regarding the transfer of unbilled liability is now provided as standard functionality.

Consume to cash now provides an integrated solution for prepaid handling from contract creation to reconciled and correct accounting

Simplified business process covered by convergent invoicing

Completion of billing process

Simplified handling and treatment of billable items

Simplified handling and treatment of billable items

Reduces manual effort at period close

Simplified framework-based creation and maintenance of billable item databases and function modules

All customers in Chile can use the report -- whether or not summarization of accounting documents is activated

Closing process sequence consistency guaranteed, which minimizes the chance of error

Improves the transparency of the remote task execution and enhances the task monitoring for quicker reaction in the event of error

Improves working efficiency for closing tasks maintenance

Improves working efficiency in the case of corrections or revisions

Improves the transparency of the remote task execution and enhances the task monitoring for quicker reaction in the event of error

Improve working efficiency by minimizing the closing reconciliation between Web UI and GUI

Improves working efficiency by offering mass change functionality for the multiple attributes of each of the closing tasks

Status reasons improve the transparency by complementing the manual status change for specific closing tasks

Supporting office documentation drives working efficiency and ensures closing execution by providing full cycle document management functionality including: add, display, and change

Improves working efficiency with the combination of task selection criteria

Allowing status updates of the workflow in the closing cockpit provides end users with visibility into the different outcomes and results

Improves working efficiency

Assigning responsibility of the task folder or group improves the working efficiency and minimizes the chance of entry error when defining the closing rules in the template.

Allowing the factory calendar assignment to the closing task folder will shorten the closing rules definition cycle for business entities that need to run same closing tasks in different locations within a single closing cycle.

Incorporating a plant as the closing organizational structure allows further working divisions based upon the plant and improves the closing results reconciliation.

It will improve the working efficiency and minimize the chance of entry error.

Selective transport approach improves template transport efficiency by automating the transport against all template components, including office documents, notes, variants, and workflow.

- Documents process issues

- Enables quality measurements

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- Supports internal communication between local and shared services organizations

- Leads to structured exception handling by standardizing the process

All financial data is readily available, resulting in high service quality due to improved first call and contact resolution rates. Speeds up service request processing.

The aggregated report on changes in tangible fixed assets can now be performed on the basis of segment and profit center, in addition to balance sheet and P&L. All other reports in asset accounting can also be selected and sorted by those entities. Segment and profit center are real account assignment objects in the asset master data. The system checks a unique derivation of segment and profit center values while maintaining the asset master data and during postings to asset accounts.

- Efficient processing of electronic payment advices

- Reduced costs by minimizing manual paperwork

- Increased straight-through processing rates

The aggregated report on changes in tangible fixed assets can now be performed on the basis of segment and profit center, in addition to balance sheet and P&L. All other reports in asset accounting can also be selected and sorted by those entities. Segment and profit center are real account assignment objects in the asset master data. The system checks a unique derivation of segment and profit center values while maintaining the asset master data and during postings to asset accounts.



In India, taxes applicable on purchases sometimes depends upon the region of the supply of goods. With this functionality, there will be a one-time set up for tax codes applicable for different vendor regions and the same will be automatically picked up at PO creation.

Improves working efficiency, processing flexibility, and transparency against workflow closing tasks

Free configurable discount and charge calculation executed in convergent invoicing

- Direct access to all relevant financial data from within the SSF

- Cost savings through shortened service request processing

- The service request has direct access to financial data

- Better service quality through increasing the likelihood of answering the question on the first call

- All data necessary for request resolution resides in one place or object

Simplified process

- The user works on one platform without needing to log onto the financial back-end systems

Increase posting accuracy of commitments and actuals to CRM funds management

Simplified process

Continuing improvements in asset accounting

Continuing improvements in financial reporting

Continuing improvements to the general ledger to ensure that a complete balance sheet is available in the dimensions profit center, segment, and business area

Simplified and intuitive reconciliation tool

FI-CA convergent invoicing can process billing documents created in SD.

As of now this feature will allow the customers to maintain the details that are required for India IT depreciation calculation. This will keep the system ready for the localization of India Asset Accounting. When the complete localization solution is provided in the later releases, SAP system will take care of the whole depreciation calculation as per the Indian legal requirement.

For tasklist creation, CLOCOT enables the responsibility to be split and improves the compliance via the authorization of the tasklist creation by the relevant responsible group

- Self-service option for internal requester of service

Allows you to centralize financial processes that start out decentralized, for example, A/P and A/R data is entered locally, but open item processing is handled centrally. All data that is relevant only for reporting in the central system can be transferred in summarized form.

- Enables a common, unified collection process that covers non-SAP accounts receivable systems

Allows global manufacturing organizations to set activity prices that take account of depreciation according to IFRS and local GAAP

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