Simple Finance Add On

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What's new in Simple Finance Add-on 1.0

Hello SAP Financials Community,

Good day to all of you!!

This document is in continuation to my previous blog on Simple Finance.

In this document, I will make an attempt to summarize the features / changes introduced by Simple Finance

Add-on 1.0, for various process areas / activities.

Lets hit the ground now!!

The below summary is prepared out of document published by SAP, however, in a concise and easy-to-

remember form. I have myself explored a majority of these, but not all.

Process Area Sub-Area Impact

Cost Center Accounting Master Data In the activity type master data,pre-distribution of fixed costs is notsupported for sender cost centers.

Activity Price Calculation In the planning versions, tab ofprice calculation, the actual methodshould be set as Periodic price .

Splitting Structure In theassignmentsof thesplittingstructureconfiguration,multiplesplittingassignmentsare notsupported.

In theSelectionforassignment ,Groupis notsupported.

In thesplittingrules, only

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splittingmethods12, 21,22, 23,24, and25 aresupported.TheWeightingindicatoris notsupported.

In theselectionforsplittingrulesconfiguration,version0 issupported.

Plan-to-Produce Master Data OriginGroupof theDeliveredmaterialmustnot bechanged

Multipleoperationsequencesandparallelsequenceare notsupported.

Operationsplit forschedulingis notsupported.

Period End Close Variance Calculation Targetcostversionsotherthan 0 notsupported



Theexplanationfunctionprovideslessdetailedinformationthanbefore.Noexplanationisprovidedfor scrapcalculation

"WriteLineItems"should beselectedin theVarianceKeydefinition

Minordifferencesare notsupported.

Primarypricevariancesare notsupported.

Variancecategoriescan beposted todifferentGLAccounts

New TCodes,same asClassicOnes,with asuffix'H' (i.e.KKS1H)



Performanceimprovementof theVariancecalculationprogramusing thepower ofHANA

The Closeschedulesmust beupdatedto includethe newprograms

WIP Calculation New T.

Code

KKAOH

has been

introduced

for

calculation

of WIP

Using

KKAOH,

WIP can

only be

calculated

on

production

orders,

not on

product

cost

collectors

or

process

orders

New WIPreporthelps tosee thedetails



of theWIP GLAccountbrokendown intoPrimaryandSecondarycosts ofProductionorders

Performanceimprovementof theWIPcalculationprogramusing thepower ofHANA

The Closeschedulesmust beupdatedto includethe newprograms

WIPcalculationin onlyoneversion(LegalValuation)issupported

Assessments & Settlements To take full advantage of the SAPHANA architecture, assessmentcycles and settlement rules toensure they are working withaccount- based profitabilityanalysis

Overhead Calculation Thestandarddependencies(D000– D080)aresupported.



Thecustomer-defineddependenciesare notsupportedAquantity-basedoverheadrateshouldnot bereferencedbyanotherquantity-basedoverheadrate.

Objectcurrencyconversionis notsupportedforquantity-basedoverheadrates.In suchcases,the objectcurrencymust bethe sameas thecontrollingareacurrency.

Usersneed toconfiguretheamountusing thecontrollingareacurrencyin theCostingSheet.



Order andBusinessProcessare notsupportedas theobjectto becredited.

From/To originare notsupported.All units ofmeasureof the costelementsdefined inthe Basemust becompatible.

Order-to-Cash COGS Postings COGS can be split betweenmultiple GL accounts to mirror theCost Components

Credit Management FI-AR-CR (Credit Management)will be sunset in next release.FSCM-Credit Management mustbe used

Asset Accounting Technical ClassicalAA nolongeravailable.Thisappliesacross thesystem.New AAmust beused

EnterpriseExtensionEA-FINis MUST.UsingNew GL isMUST

LeadingValuation



can takeplace inany dep.Area. Nolongernecessaryto useArea 01for this

SAPEHP7withbusinessfunctionFIN_AA_PARALLELrequiresus to useLedgerApproachonly.SFINSupportsbothledgerandaccountsapproach

ALEtransferis notavailablein NewAA

The batchinputmethodfortransactionsbasedon AB01is notavailable.NewBAPIsmust beused. Anyexistinginterfacesmay haveto bereworked



New TCodes,same asClassicOnes,with asuffix 'L'.Old TCodesno longeravailable.Autodirect toNew TCode ifone usesthe olderone

Postings LeadingandParallelDep. Areacan nowpost inreal time.

-Hence,Conceptof DeltaDep.Area isObsolete

Assetpostings(i.e.separatedocuments)can bemadeseparatelyto eachDep.Area /Accountingprinciple,usingAB01L

- Therestrictionof



transactiontypes todepreciationareas nolongerapplies

- UserExitAPCF_DIFFERENT_AMOUNTS_GETno longersupported

Simplifiedmanagementof goodsthat areto becapitalizedinaccordancewith oneset ofaccountingprinciples,but areto beposted toexpenseinaccordancewith adifferentset

Theintegratedposting ofinvestmentsupporton assetsusing FItransactionsis notsupported.TcodeABIFLmust beused

DocumentsbeforechangeoverfromClassicalto New



AAcant bereversed.AnInversepostingmust bemade

Work listsmadein AAbefore thechangeovermay notwork.Hence, allpendingtasks withthe WLmust beprocessedbefore themigrationor NewWLmust becreatedafter theMigration

For allassetpostings,all postingdep.Areas areupdatedin realtime.Hence,ASKBNis nowrequiredonly forDep.Areas thatmanagereservesfor Spl.Depreciationonly



Joint Venture Accounting (Oil &Mining)

Not Compatible with New AssetAccounting

Planning NewPlanningSolutionbringsfinancialaccounting(FI) andmanagementaccounting(CO)together.FlexibleTop-Down andBottom-Upplanningfunctionmadeavailable

Theability toaggregateanddisaggregatedataquicklymakes itpossibleto performsimulationsandforecastingmuchfasterthan waspreviouslypossible.

UserfriendlyMS Excelfrontend andEmbeddedBI cubemakesplanningeasier.Sample BI



cubes areintegralpart of theSAP now

SAP alsodelivers aprogramthatautomaticallyanalyzesexistingcustomer-specificCO-PAdimensionsandgeneratesthecorrespondingBIobjects.

As thisplanningsolution iscompletelynew, ithas noimpact onexistingplan data.SAPwill notprovidemigrationfunctionality.

Project Systems Master Data To take best advantage of the SAPHANA selection capabilities, youmust create selection variants

Results Analysis Only thefollowingresultsanalysismethodsaresupported:

-Revenue-basedresults



analysis(method01)

- Cost-basedresultsanalysisbased onthe % ofcompletion(method03)

Customerenhancementand theother 15methodsare notsupported.

ExpertMode ispartiallysupported.

Only RAin LegalValuationissupported

PlannedResultsAnalysisis notsupported.

Data Archiving Data Archiving made redundant,

Already Archived documents can

still be accessed

Data Aging introduced

Cash and Liquidity Management ClassicCash andLiquidityManagementsolution isobsolete

New CashManagement



Solutionon HANAprovidesthefollowingnewfeatures

- BankAccountManagement

- CashPositionandShort-TermCashForecast

-EmbeddedLiquidityPlanning

- Cashflow andliquidityforecastcalculationpoweredby SAPHANA

- Newuserexperienceswiththe NetWeaverBusinessClient(NWBC)

Year End Close Balance C/f The program for carrying forwardbalances now enables you toinitialize data carried forwardpreviously when you want to repeata balance carryforward

Reporting Income statement by marketsegments

Reporting uses a logical documentthat links the financial accounting(FI) line item, the CO line item,and the CO-PA dimensions (whereavailable) to provide an income



statement broken down by marketsegments.

Summarization Hierarchies in CO DataCollectionbeforehandhas beenmaderedundant

On-the-FlySummarizationreporthas beenintroduced

DynamicSummarization,ratherthan Pre-definedSummarization

Tables Summary Tables removed GLT0, FAGLFLEXT, COSS,COSP, KNC1/3, LFC1/3. (replacedby CDS Views)

Index Tables removed BSIS, BSAS, BSID, BSAD, BSIK,BSAK, FAGLBSIS, FAGLBSAS(replaced by CDS views)

Impact on custom reports Custom reports based on abovetables will continue to work

Logical document FI / CO document are now linked

at Line Item level

This facilitates a logical view

of the FI/CO document (Using

HANA Live) via program

FCO_LOGICAL_DOCUMENT

Hope you enjoyed the learning. Keep watching this space for other documents in the series

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Best Regards,

Ajay Maheshwari

PS: Tagging SAP ERP Financials - Controlling and SAP ERP Financials - Asset Accounting forums into the

document

http://scn.sap.com/community/erp/financials/controlling

http://scn.sap.com/community/erp/financials/asset-accounting