COPA is one of the components of controlling modules of SAP which deals with reporting of profitability across various dimensions. CO-PA stands for controlling-profitability analysis which is commonly referred to as SAP-COPA. It enables you to evaluate your company’s profit or contribution margin by market segment or by strategic business unit (such as a sales organization or profit centre).
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
Combined COPA allows organizations to analyze profit-related transactions (such as the invoicing of a customer or consumption through delivery), both in the form of value fields and also in the form of accounts to which posting takes place in financial accounting.
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.
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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.
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.
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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
Combined COPA allows organizations to analyze profit-related transactions (such as the invoicing of a customer or consumption through delivery), both in the form of value fields and also in the form of accounts to which posting takes place in financial accounting.
SAP has reimagined finance for the digital age with S/4HANA Finance (formerly SAP Simple Finance). The software runs on the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform, so you can optimize processes, run on-the-fly analysis, and more. In this webinar, you will be introduced to some of the S/4HANA Finance key features and functionality likely to benefit your organization immediately.
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While it’s hard to miss marketing information on SAP Fiori and SAP HANA, there are lots of other innovations in SAP Controlling you may be overlooking. Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can be used on any ERP system. In this session we’ll cover:
• Using virtual InfoProviders on ERP table structures to enable new reporting in SAP Material Ledger and Profitability Analysis (account-based and costing-based)
• Activating some business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more
• Leveraging cross-company actual costing to allow SAP Material Ledger to transfer values across company codes and stock in transit as a logistics enabler
• Using parallel cost of goods manufactured and parallel asset accounting to extend parallel accounting functions originally delivered with new general ledger
Walk away with tips for modernizing your company’s CO-PA and SAP Material Ledger reporting.
SAP’s innovations – Are you overlooking important functionality in SAP Contro...John Jordan
While it’s hard to miss marketing information on SAP Fiori and SAP HANA, there are lots of other innovations in SAP Controlling you may be overlooking. Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can be used on any ERP system. In this session we’ll cover:
• Using virtual InfoProviders on ERP table structures to enable new reporting in SAP Material Ledger and Profitability Analysis (account-based and costing-based)
• Activating some business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more
• Leveraging cross-company actual costing to allow SAP Material Ledger to transfer values across company codes and stock in transit as a logistics enabler
• Using parallel cost of goods manufactured and parallel asset accounting to extend parallel accounting functions originally delivered with new general ledger
Walk away with tips for modernizing your company’s CO-PA and SAP Material Ledger reporting.
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2. Introduction
• COPA is one of the components of controlling modules of SAP which deals with reporting of
profitability across various dimensions.
• It stands for controlling-profitability analysis which is commonly referred to as SAP-COPA
• It enables you to evaluate your company’s profit or contribution margin by market segment or by strategic
business unit (such as a sales organization or profit centre).
• Profitability Analysis provides your sales, marketing,
product management, and corporate planning
departments with information to support internal
accounting and decision-making.
5. Costing based COPA
This is the form of profitability analysis in which group costs and revenues are according to the value fields and also
based upon the costing based approaches which can be defined by the user. It guarantees that all these fields can
be accessed at any time.
6. Account based COPA
This is the form of profitability analysis in which group costs and revenues are according to the value fields and also
based upon the costing based approaches which can be defined by the user. It guarantees that all these fields can
be accessed at any time.
8. Drawbacks of account based COPA
1. Cost component breakdown can be obtained.
2. There is no breakdown of variance categories
3. The tables (COEP, COEJ, COSP, COSS etc.,) used by overhead cost management are used in account based COPA,
whereas costing based COPA has its own customized tables.
9. Advantages of Costing based COPA (CBC) over Account based COPA (ABC)
Costing based COPA is preferred as it provides greater flexibility and has some extra planning mechanisms and
features that are not supported by account based COPA.
Using the Account based COPA transaction tables (COEP, BSEG) affects performance of CO transactions.
CBC usually uses values from CE1XXXX to CE4XXXX tables where XXXX means Operating Concern name.
In ABC, it is difficult to obtain estimated/statistical values
10. Title
In ABC, Reports based on line items not possible where as it is possible in CBC.
In ABC, it is not possible to re-evaluate actual data to plan data.
There are no key figures schemes available in ABC
In ABC, settlement cost elements are used to settle values to prof segments unlike value fields in CBC
12. Costing based COPA
Value fields like group costs and revenue elements are used in costing based COPA;
Costing based COPA has Reconciliation issues;
In COPA, the incoming sales order data is transferred to SD condition types to analyze anticipated sales for whose
delivery has not yet taken place.
13. Title
1. Variance analysis is possible in COPA
2. Operating concern tables that are generated, are listed as under:
a. CE1xxxx : actual line item table
b. CE2xxxx : plan line item table
c. CE3xxxx : segment level
d. CE4xxxx : segment table
3. Incoming Sales Order data cannot be mapped in account based CO-PA
14. What is SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution which has built in technologies that includes AI, machine
learning, deep learning and other advanced analytics. SAP S/4 HANA has added automation to the existing business
processes. At present, SAP HANA is a market leader in providing databases that offer high speeds in real time.
16. Flow of actual data
The data is transferred and saved by the record types in the costing based CO-PA.
The data is transferred and saved by the record types in the costing based CO-PA.
17. Title
Record type Description
B FI –> CO-PA
C CO –> CO-PA
IO settlement to CO-PA
MM Production Variances
F SD Billing Data
A Incoming Sales Order
18. Account based v/s Costing based COPA in S4/HANA
• Costing based CO-PA was more advantageous before the arrival of S4 HANA 3rd generation;
• Now, most of the capabilities of costing based COPA are added in the account based COPA;
• With S4/ HANA, it is recommended to use Account based COPA in S4/ HANA as per out analysis.
19. Why Account based COPA is better than Costing based COPA in S4/HANA
Account based COPA Costing based COPA
Data transfer happens from FI using the
Cost & revenue elements
Costs to G/L accounts and SD Condition
types are mapped using the value fields
Costs to G/L accounts and SD Condition
types are mapped using the value fields
Costs to G/L accounts and SD Condition
types are mapped using the value fields
Even after S4HANA, the data of the
incoming sales order cannot be mapped.
The data through SD condition types to
analyze anticipated sales of whose
delivery period has not yet taken place.
Cost component split data can be sent to
it; the same was not possible in ECC.
Same as account-based COPA.
20. Combine COPA
Combine Profitability combines the flexibility of the costing-based approach with the adjustability of the
account-based type by updating the G/L posting lines that are relevant for the P&L statement in a document in
addition to the costing-based value field view.
21. Advantages of Combined profitability analysis over Costing based profitability
analysis
1) It is integrated with Gl accounting thus the reconciliation issue which was a major challenge in Costing COPA is
resolved.
2) We can post to cPA in multiple currency type (we can extend all currency types from company code including the
custom currency types (if any).
3) Pivot browser based reporting which is much more useful than the traditional Ke24 reporting.
4) Multiple quantity view i.e. we can update in multiple UOMs.
5) New record type “L” which will post PGI transactions .
22. Functionalities Example Costing Based CO- PA Combined CO-PA
(cPA)
Accounting Based CO-
PA
Sales Conditions Revenue, Freight, COGS
and discount
Available Available Not-Available
Order Entry Planned Revenue and
Planned COGS
Available Available Not Available
Cost Component and
COGS Split
Breakdown of COGS into
fixed and variable
Available Available Partially Available
Reconciliation with GL Integrated with the
existing General Ledgers
(GL) to avoid
reconciliation between
CO-PA and GL
Not Available Available Available
Pivot Browser based
Report
Integrated with the
existing General Ledgers
(GL) to avoid
reconciliation between
CO-PA and GL
Not Available Available Available