SAP Finance (FI)

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System That Unlocks Powerful Insights by Competent Financial Data Accounting

SAP Financial Accounting (SAP FI) supports a wide range of financial accounting activities with built-in regulatory compliance across various industries. It is fully integrated with logistics and production modules, enabling real-time financial insights. With SAP FI, businesses can efficiently manage and analyze external reporting, covering all financial transactions between the company, its customers, and suppliers.

SAP Controlling (SAP CO) automates management accounting processes, helping organizations with internal cost tracking and financial planning. Together, SAP FI and CO form the core financial management modules essential for any business.

SAP FI Key Features

SAP Finance (FI) is a crucial module within SAP ERP, designed to optimize your business operations, lower operational costs, and enhance market reach, helping your business stay competitive and grow.

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Full transparency of transactions

The system provides clear and detailed activity logs along with a comprehensive transaction history, which are vital for ensuring the reliability, accuracy, and integrity of your analysis.

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Parallel currencies in accounting

SAP FI enables accounting in multiple national currencies, ensuring compliance with both local and international standards. In addition to the local currency, your ledgers can be maintained in these additional currencies.

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Fiscal and calendar year

The system offers a flexible solution for generating fiscal year periods that differ from the standard calendar. It enables you to calculate all company taxes and prepare financial statements seamlessly within a single platform.

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One-time data entry

The integration of FI with other SAP modules prevents data duplication and enables seamless navigation from financial documents to primary ones, such as sales, warehousing, and more.

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Flexibility and security

The system addresses all business suite needs comprehensively, offering tailored customization for each tool's deployment while ensuring the highest level of data security.

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Automation all along the way

The document posting process is fully automated, enabling companies to monitor their financial status in real time and streamline financial reporting at the close of their fiscal year.

SAP Finance (FI) Functionality in The Whole Spectrum

General Ledger

The General Ledger (GL) consolidates all transaction data into a comprehensive chart of accounts. Transactions are first recorded in various sub-modules and then synchronized in real-time with the GL, ensuring accurate and up-to-date financial records. The GL provides the following key benefits:

  • Oversee financial management.
  • Monitor transactions and cash flow.
  • Prepare and update information for business reports.
  • Assist in preventing accounting errors and fraud.
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Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable involve capturing customer transactions and managing customer accounts. Transactions include posting invoices, credit memos, down payments, invoice payments, and generating customer reports.

Accounts Payable handle all transactions with vendors and manage vendor accounts. Transactions include posting invoices, credit memos, down payments, invoice payments, processing automatic payments, and generating vendor reports.

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IFRS and US GAAP Standards

SAP Finance enables you to configure an ERP system in alignment with global accounting standards and methodologies.

  • Manage multiple accounting types simultaneously with one solution.
  • Generate financial statements tailored for actual and prospective investors.
  • Develop clear and comprehensible financial statements for investors, managers, auditors, brokers, and other stakeholders.
  • Access essential information to produce financial statements in accordance with international standards.
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Asset Accounting

This sub-module handles transactions related to the company's fixed assets, including land, buildings, and heavy equipment. It functions as a subsidiary ledger to the General Ledger, offering detailed insights into transactions involving fixed assets.

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Bank Accounting

BA manages accounting transactions in coordination with the bank. This process involves maintaining bank master data and handling both credited and debited payments. It reconciles all transactions recorded on bank statements—such as opening and closing balances, receipts, and payment totals—by comparing them with the transactions recorded in the system.

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Travel Management

Travel Management (TM) encompasses all activities related to travel. Key functions of travel management include planning trips, booking travel arrangements, settling expenses through payroll or finance, and transferring expenditure data to other SAP modules such as Controlling and Funds Management.

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Fund Management

With this sub-module, you can adjust the budget in response to changing conditions by managing releases, supplements, returns, and transfers. It allows you to allocate and track revenues and expenditures across various responsibility areas, monitor future fund transactions according to the allocated budget, and prevent any budget overruns.

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Legal Consolidation

LC enables companies to consolidate multiple entities (i.e., company codes) directly within the ledger. Additionally, it allows for the aggregation of financial statements across any number of entities, providing a comprehensive overview of the company's overall financial position.

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Get the Most out of SAP Finance (FI) Functionality

  • Automation of different types of accounting
    • Various types of accounting maintenance, including national accounting, tax accounting, management accounting, and compliance with IFRS or US GAAP.
    • Management of company accounts in multiple currencies and across several parallel charts of accounts.
    • Optimization of routine and repetitive tasks.
  • Simplification of material accounting processes
    • Concurrent Management of Material Cost Estimates
    • Implementing automated processes for accounting business operations related to material acquisition.
    • Managing the transfer, release into production, sale, revaluation, and write-off of materials.
    • Overseeing and analyzing supply chain activities and invoicing.
  • Management of accounting processes of different types of assets
    • Simultaneous valuation of fixed and non-current assets
    • Management of non-current assets throughout their lifecycle, including receipt and acceptance for accounting purposes, transfer, depreciation, revaluation (including adjustments for hyperinflation), sale, and retirement.
    • Generating and receiving analytical reports and printed forms.
  • Management of mutual settlements with counterparties
    • Tracking payment deadlines and managing mutual settlements with suppliers, customers, tax authorities, employees, financial institutions, and other debtors and creditors.
    • Management of customer credit control services
    • Automation of accounts receivable functions related to overdue payments
    • Provisioning for bad debts
  • Optimization of period closing and financial reporting process
    • Automation of expenditure and deferred income accounting processes
    • Revaluation of foreign exchange using multiple methods
    • Enhanced online control, transparency, and acceleration of all closing processes
    • Development of adaptable tools for various financial statements
  • Automating the formation of consolidated reporting
    • Real-time generation of consolidated financial statements.
    • Access to flexible tools for reconciling and eliminating intra-group transactions.
    • Production of consolidated statements in a customizable format.

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