Splitting structures determine how activity-independent costs from a cost center are divided between activity types. A splitting structure consists of assignments that define the connection between a cost element or cost element group and the splitting rule used to divide costs, such as by statistical key figures. Splitting structures must be assigned to cost centers to split their costs according to the defined rules.
Quick sap co configuration Internal OrderCapgemini
Internal order is a virtual place for collecting/pooling the costs of a particular activity/task. i.e. it is a method to collect those costs and business transactions related to the task/activity. It is a means of tracking costs of a specific job, service, or task. Periodically the costs which are pooled in an internal order can be settled to an asset or to a cost center or to a GL Account or to an order. Thus, while recording you need not analyze the costs. Just record and pool the costs in internal order. After that (generally at the end of the month) these costs are analyzed and settled for relevant elements (like asset or cost center etc).
This method of recording and settling the costs helps in analyzing the costs of cost center wise, profit center wise or cost element-wise. This level of monitoring can be very detailed but allows management the ability to review Internal Order activity for better-decision making purposes.
SAP FICO - Why SAP uses Internal Orders?Sanjay Ram
Understand why internal orders are used instead of cost centers as explained by http://www.erptraining9.com
Why an Internal Order is required?
Creation of Internal Order
Operational Expenditure Postings
Settlement of Internal Orders to Cost Centers
Internal Order Reporting
Quick sap co configuration Internal OrderCapgemini
Internal order is a virtual place for collecting/pooling the costs of a particular activity/task. i.e. it is a method to collect those costs and business transactions related to the task/activity. It is a means of tracking costs of a specific job, service, or task. Periodically the costs which are pooled in an internal order can be settled to an asset or to a cost center or to a GL Account or to an order. Thus, while recording you need not analyze the costs. Just record and pool the costs in internal order. After that (generally at the end of the month) these costs are analyzed and settled for relevant elements (like asset or cost center etc).
This method of recording and settling the costs helps in analyzing the costs of cost center wise, profit center wise or cost element-wise. This level of monitoring can be very detailed but allows management the ability to review Internal Order activity for better-decision making purposes.
SAP FICO - Why SAP uses Internal Orders?Sanjay Ram
Understand why internal orders are used instead of cost centers as explained by http://www.erptraining9.com
Why an Internal Order is required?
Creation of Internal Order
Operational Expenditure Postings
Settlement of Internal Orders to Cost Centers
Internal Order Reporting
AUC is Asset under construction where some assets are in construction phase and cost needs to
capture through internal order for the time being. Once asset is fully completed then cost would
be transferred to another cost object (E.g. Cost center, Order etc...) and settle with final asset.
E.g. XYZ Company constructing building for their office. While construction many expenses are
attached to it. Till the time it is created we cannot charge it in building account hence we need to
create AUC account where cost will be stored.
Assets under construction (AUC) are a special form of tangible assets. They are usually displayed
as a separate balance sheet item and therefore require a separate account determination and their
own asset classes. During the construction phase of an asset, all actual postings are assigned to the
AUC. Once the asset is completed, a transfer is made to the final fixed asset
Account-based COPA is also called a hybrid of general ledger and costing-based COPA. In Account based COPA, you can get a report that is reconciled and consistent with financial accounting. Sales, markeitng and product management details can be obtained from it.
In sap we have two types of bank statement are there:
Manual Bank Statement
Electronic Bank Statement
If you receive an electronic statement then you just need to upload it to sap for the purpose of
preparation of bank reconciliation statement. If it is manual one then you need to enter the
statement manually into sap.
AUC is Asset under construction where some assets are in construction phase and cost needs to
capture through internal order for the time being. Once asset is fully completed then cost would
be transferred to another cost object (E.g. Cost center, Order etc...) and settle with final asset.
E.g. XYZ Company constructing building for their office. While construction many expenses are
attached to it. Till the time it is created we cannot charge it in building account hence we need to
create AUC account where cost will be stored.
Assets under construction (AUC) are a special form of tangible assets. They are usually displayed
as a separate balance sheet item and therefore require a separate account determination and their
own asset classes. During the construction phase of an asset, all actual postings are assigned to the
AUC. Once the asset is completed, a transfer is made to the final fixed asset
Account-based COPA is also called a hybrid of general ledger and costing-based COPA. In Account based COPA, you can get a report that is reconciled and consistent with financial accounting. Sales, markeitng and product management details can be obtained from it.
In sap we have two types of bank statement are there:
Manual Bank Statement
Electronic Bank Statement
If you receive an electronic statement then you just need to upload it to sap for the purpose of
preparation of bank reconciliation statement. If it is manual one then you need to enter the
statement manually into sap.
What does other companies with COPA reporting challenges do?
Remove the Pain Use - COPA HANA Accelerator (Operational Reporting in ECC)
Move to BW to get better Performance - BW on HANA (Transformation, Periodic Reporting, History)
Convert ECC Platform – HANA Integrated (Operational Reporting)
Most companies use a Hybrid solution to support corporate historic data for legal & financial reporting
SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA – Moving controlling and finance closer to...John Jordan
New users have traditionally struggled to understand the way SAP separates Financial Accounting and Management Accounting where most legacy systems see the two as one. While it’s easy enough to understand how a payroll account flows from the profit and loss statement into cost center accounting because the account information stays the same, the situation becomes more challenging as a revenue account flows into profitability analysis and is transformed into a value field, or a cost of goods sold account becomes multiple value fields depending on the cost components involved. In its latest product release, SAP is bringing the two worlds closer together. In this session we’ll look at how SAP is addressing these issues with its new product SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, part of SAP Simple Finance. This presentation will delve into how the requirements for internal and external reporting are converging and how this convergence impacts SAP Controlling.
This session will cover:
*Changes to report revenue and cost of goods sold by the CO-PA dimensions and how break out the cost of goods sold into multiple accounts
*How overhead is captured and allocated either from cost centers to CO-PA dimensions (assessment) or from high-level to lower-level CO-PA dimensions (top-down distribution)
*The underlying architecture and how FI and CO line items are linked.
*New reports that visualize the transformation of expense into cost of goods sold, work in process, and assets under construction
*How the period close process has been accelerated in SAP Controlling
Get a sneak peak at the first planning applications that allow you to plan costs according to the new paradigm of SAP Simple Finance, where the account is the leading dimension for all accounting activities.
SAP HANA and SAP Controlling – New Opportunities and New ChallengesJohn Jordan
You've heard the buzz about SAP HANA, but what does it mean to you? This presentation will introduce the technical concepts behind in-memory data management and how those concepts impact SAP Controlling. This session will cover:
*Basic SAP HANA architecture including column vs. row storage and how this impacts how data can be stored and accessed in CO
*Insight into how (and why!) SAP is gradually removing aggregates from CO so that only line items remain
*How partitioning worked in the past and how SAP CO will potentially change to accommodate new opportunities
*Changes on the horizon for SAP HANA and their relevance for Controlling users
Gain a solid understanding of how you can apply SAP HANA functionality to simplify your access to and analysis of controlling data.
Blogs on Document Splitting at www.veritysolutions.com.au
Document Splitting is a very powerful feature delivered by SAP ECC.
Previous to SAP ECC, if new fields were required to General Ledger SAP had to deliver these new fields in Special Purpose Ledger tables. Profit Centre Accounting in R3 was Special Purpose Ledger table 8*, Joint Venture Accounting was ledger 4*. This essentially meant that data had to be copied from General Ledger table GLT0 to special ledger tables so these could be reported upon. However, technical glitches in code and incorrect usage of functionalities caused imbalances between the main ledger GLT0 and the special purpose ledgers.
SAP customers who wanted to expand the functionality of General Ledger to cater to special business requirements (like reporting General Ledger with another fiscal year variant) had to create custom Special Purpose Ledger tables. For example, if a customer wanted to report by two fiscal year variants, they could report one variant using General Ledger and the other variant using Special Purpose Ledger.
All this disparate ledgers reported the same source information in different views. Customers had to execute several month end jobs to ensure synchronisation of data across all these ledgers. Differences in balances and information between ledgers led to delays in month end close and reporting.
With SAP ECC new GL, SAP Customers can add new fields (which SAP calls “scenarios”) into General Ledger. This allows customers to perform, for example, Profit Centre Accounting and Reporting within General Ledger.
With SAP ECC new GL, SAP Customers can add new ledgers (which SAP calls “parallel accounting”) into General Ledger. This allows customers to report, for example, the same General Ledger data in multiple fiscal year variants.
This replication of data happens in real-time. SAP customers no longer need to execute month end jobs to synchronise data between different ledgers.
SAP S/4 HANA - SAP sFIN (Simple Finance) - Financial Reporting and Advanced A...Jothi Periasamy
Objectives:
In this webinar, we will be demonstrating the key capabilities of SAP S/4 HANA, including
SAP S/4 HANA - Solution Scope, Implementation Business Scenarios, Business Benefits
SAP sFIN - Universal Journals, Business Values, Financial Reporting and Analytics Simplified
Review Sierra’s SAP S/4 SAP HANA Pre-Packaged Industry Solutions
Readily Deployable Solution (RDS) for Simplifying and Accelerating Financial Reporting and Analytics
Watch Our Live Demo, and Learn The Steps to Deeply Analyze Financials in Real-time
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Trial Balance
Product Gross Margin
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Trend Analysis
Data Visualization
Interactive Analysis
Data Discovery
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Seven Finance Activities Every Manufacturing Company Needs3C Software
If you're in finance or accounting at a manufacturing company, then this guide is for you. To understand and explain your company's performance, here are the seven activities that must be part of your analytics process.
Presentation on topics:-
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2. Cost Drivers and Cost Behaviour
3. Management Influence on Cost Behaviour
4. Cost Functions
5. Methods of Measuring Cost Functions
6. Cost Management System
ABC System (Concept and Principles)
7. Various Basis of Overhead Distribution
8. Different Cost for Different Decisions
Marginal costing is a costing technique wherein the marginal cost, i.e. variable cost is charged to units of cost, while the fixed cost for the period is completely written off against the contribution.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
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Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Here’s what you’ll gain:
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Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
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Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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18 maintain split structure kks2
1. Purpose
Splitting structure determine how and what selected activity-independent costs from a cost center are
divided between the activity types. This applies to both plan and actual costs.
A splitting structure consists of one or more assignments, which define the connection between the cost
element(s) or cost element group to be split and the splitting rule used to divide the costs.
Each splitting rule is based on a splitting method; for example, splitting costs based on statistical key
figures.
Trigger
N.A.
Prerequisites
After you define a splitting structure, you must assign it to the cost centers on which you want to split
costs according to the given rules. You can assign a structure to:
All cost centers
All cost centers in a given group
All cost centers in a given interval
The structure can apply to a single version or to all versions in a controlling area for a fiscal year
Menu Path
Path :- SPRO Controlling Cost Center Accounting Actual Posting Period – End Closing
Activity Allocation Splitting Define Splitting Structure
Initial screen
Click on New entries
Maintain Split structure OKES
4. Purpose
If you want to split costs in the cost center to the activity types, you must assign a splitting structure to this
cost center.
The SAP System splits costs per the rules that you set in the splitting structure.
Menu Path
Path :- SPRO Controlling Cost Center Accounting Actual Posting Period – End Closing
Activity Allocation Splitting Assign Split structure to Cost Center
Initial screen
Initial Screen
Click on save button.
Assign Split structure to Cost Center OKEW
5. Purpose
You need to create Splitting Structure and Splitting rule. The splitting rule shall be based on activity
quantity. Then this structure should be assigned to the selected cost centers. In addition, you need to
modify the master data of Activity type by selecting 5 against the Act Price Indicator. Then you also need
to select either one of the options available price calculation tab 'settings for each fiscal year' as pasted
below.
Trigger
Revaluation at Actual Prices Indicator determining whether actual activities in a version are valuated
with actual prices and how the valuation is performed
All actual activities valuated with the plan price 1 Revaluation in separate transaction All actual activities
valuated with the actual price; original allocation unchanged The differences between allocations valuated
with plan and actual prices are posted under a separate transaction (actual price calculation). 2
Revaluation in original transaction All actual activities revaluated with the actual price; original allocation
changed The differences between allocations valuated with actual and plan prices are not shown with this
option
Prerequisites
N.a.
Menu Path
SAP Easy Access Accounting Controlling Cost Center Accounting Period – End Closing
Single Functions KSS2 - Splitting
Initial screen
Maintain Splitting KSS2
8. Purpose
Price calculation, which you can carry out during planning, is based on planned costs and activity. The
resulting prices are used to valuate actual activity.
After running actual price calculation, you can choose to recalculate actual activity at actual prices. This
revaluates the activity using the difference between plan and actual prices. By revaluing the actual activity
with actual prices, you can fully balance sender cost centers and sender business processes.
Trigger
If you are working with transfer prices (parallel value flows) actual price calculation and recalculation are
possible in all valuations. In the output list of the price calculation, you can choose to display the prices in
all valuations.
Prerequisites
Recalculation in a special business transaction
The R/3 System posts the difference between the plan and actual allocation valuations using a separate
business transaction (actual price calculation). This makes it easier to track variances between valuations
using actual and plan prices.
Recalculation in the original transaction
The R/3 System posts the recalculation in the original transaction. The variances between calculations at
actual and plan prices can then no longer be tracked. Use this option if you do not have plan prices,
meaning the original allocation was not valuated
Menu Path
SAP Easy Access Accounting Controlling Cost Center Accounting Period – End Closing
Single Functions KSII – Price Calculation
Initial screen
Price Calculation KSII