With S/4 HANA Finance 1809, SAP has introduced group reporting, a SAP’s consolidation solution. Group reporting’s innovations expose the new consolidation solution, which is a hybrid of SAP’s EC-CS, BCS and BPC functionalities. You’ve heard about Universal Journal, single source of truth, real-time processes, and UI improvements, in group reporting, you can leverage all these functionalities without additional acquisition of the software cost. SAP group reporting facilitates continuous accounting and consolidation in a single instance, thus reduces the financial closing manhours. With the tight integration of ACDOCA table and flexible upload functionalities help smooth transition of consolidation unit’s local data to consolidation data for financial consolidation. With the S/4 HANA 1909 release, SAP enhanced group reporting functionalities with new fiori tiles.

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CONFIGURING GROUP REPORTING WITH S/4 HANA
1909.
With S/4 HANA Finance 1809, SAP has introduced group reporting, a SAP’s consolidation solution.
Group reporting’s innovations expose the new consolidation solution, which is a hybrid of SAP’s
EC-CS, BCS and BPC functionalities. You’ve heard about Universal Journal, single source of truth,
real-time processes, and UI improvements, in group reporting, you can leverage all these
functionalities without additional acquisition of the software cost. SAP group reporting facilitates
continuous accounting and consolidation in a single instance, thus reduces the financial closing
manhours. With the tight integration of ACDOCA table and flexible upload functionalities help
smooth transition of consolidation unit’s local data to consolidation data for financial consolidation.
With the S/4 HANA 1909 release, SAP enhanced group reporting functionalities with new fire tiles.

2. Configuring Group Reporting with S/4 HANA 1909 covers end to end solution with one complete
consolidation of financial statements of integrated and non-integrated units.
Highlights of Configuring Group Reporting with S/4 HANA 1909
● Consolidation chart of account
● Integration of consolidation units and consolidation group
● Local and global accounting
● Currency translation,
● Interunit / intercompany eliminations
● Reclassification
● Elimination and adjustment of intercompany investment•Calculation of goodwill
● Calculation of minority interest,
● SAP Fiori Apps
Content of the Book
Table of Contents
PURPOSE 9
Audience of this Book 10
Structure of This Book 10
Chapter - 1Group Reporting Overview 11
Section 1.1Key Terms 20
1)Consolidation Ledger 20
2)Breakdown categories (BDC) 20
3)FS Items 21
4)FS Items vs GL accounts: 22
5)Statistical FS Items 22
6)Validation Methods 22
7)Reconciliation Case 23
8)Accounting Techniques 23
9)First consolidation 23
10)Sub-Items: 24
11)Transaction Types 25
12)Functional Areas 26
13)Consolidation unit 27
14)Posting Level 27
15)Document Type 28
16)Partner Unit 29
17)Financial Statement Items Hierarchies: 29
18)Version 29
19)Consolidation Group 29
20)Selection 30
21)Dimension 30
22)Purchase Method: 31

3. 23)Equity Method: 31
24)Consolidation frequency: 32
25)Selection Attributes 32
26)Target Attributes: 32
Section 1.2Data Model 33
Section 1.3Limitation 34
Section 1.4Key Questions 35
Section 1.5Group Reporting Templates 36
Chapter - 2Configuration 37
Section 2.1Business Case 37
Section 2.2Global System Setting 41
Section 2.3Consolidation Ledger: 44
Section 2.4Consolidation Version: 45
1.Create Version from Reference Version 45
2.Define Versions 46
Section 2.5Consolidation Units: 49
1.Create company 49
2.Create company code 50
3.Assign the company code to company 51
4.Additional ERP configuration 52
5.Define Consolidation Master Data Fields 52
6.Maintain Global Parameter 53
7.Maintain Organizational Unit 54
8.Maintain Consolidation Group 63
9.Assign Consolidation Units to Consolidation Group 66
Section 2.6Consolidation Chart of account: 72
1.Define Sub-item Categories and Sub-items 72
2.Define Breakdown Categories 75
3.Define Default Values for Sub-assignments 77
4.Define Consolidation Chart of Accounts 78
5.Define FS Item Attribute Values 82
6.Specify Selected FS Items for Automatic Posting 84
7.Specify FS Items to be Carried Forward 87
8.Specify Account Numbers to be Carried Forward 89
Section 2.7Posting Control 89
1.Display Dimension 90
2.Edit Number Range Intervals for Posting 90
3.Define Document Types 91
4.Define Document Types for Reported Financial Data 94
5.Define Document Types for Manual Posting in Data Monitor 96
6.​Define Document Types for Reclassification in Data Monitor 98
7.Define Document Types for Manual Posting in Consolidation Monitor 99
8.Define Document Types for Reclassification in Consolidation Monitor 100

4. 9.Define Method for Uploading Reported Financial Data 101
10.Define Period Categories 105
11.Specify Translation Ratios 105
12.Maintain Exchange Rates 106
13.Define Exchange Rate Indicators 107
14.Determine System Utilization for C/I 109
15.Define Task 111
16.Define Tasks for Manual Posting 113
17.Define Currency Translation Methods 115
18.Define Reclassification Methods 117
19.Define Reclassification Tasks 125
20.Define Methods 127
21.Define Task Group 128
22.Assign Task Group to Dimension 131
23.Specify Miscellaneous Selected Items 132
24.Define Number Range for Archiving 135
25.Maintain Log Archiving Settings for Tasks 136
26.Map Logical Port with Business System for Reported Data API 136
Chapter - 3Operation 138
Section 3.1Set Global Parameter 138
Section 3.2Update Master Data 140
1.Create Consolidation Hierarchy 140
2.Import FS Item Mapping 144
3.MAP FS Items with G/L Accounts 147
4.Assign FS Item mapping 150
5.Consistency checks of Accounting Integration 152
6.Define FS Item 155
Section 3.3Maintain Exchange Rate 157
1.Maintain exchange rates 157
Section 3.4Post Transaction 159
1.Create a FB50 Posting in H100 159
Section 3.5Local Close 163
1.Data Monitor 164
2.Opening of Posting Period 168
3.The balance carries forward 169
4.Transfer / Upload Transactional Data 171
5.Validation of Universal Journal 187
6.Calculate Net Income 188
7.Reported Data Validation 190
8.Manual Posting 198
9.Foreign Currency Translation 200
10.Standardized Data Validation 215
Section 3.6Consolidation Data Preparation 216

5. 1.IC Elim. Sales 218
2.IC Elim. Other Income/Expense 223
3.Dividends Elimination 227
4.IC Elim. Balance Sheet 230
5.Manual Eliminations (PL20) 233
6.Calculate Group Shares (PL 30) 235
7.Enter Group Shares (PL30) 236
8.Investments / Equity Elimination 241
9.Manual Eliminations (PL30) 287
10.Total Divestiture 288
11.Consolidated Data Validation 290
Chapter - 4Miscellaneous 291
Section 4.1Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation 291
Section 4.2Consolidation of Investments (Activity-Based) 292
Section 4.3Use of SAP Fiori Apps 293
Section 4.4Configuration of SAP Fiori APP 300
Section 4.5Group Reporting Fiori Apps 303
Section 4.6References 304
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