Revenue Accounting and Reporting with SAP S/4HANA

ISBN-13: 9781493224340 / Angielski

Sreten Milosavljevic; Swayam Shankara

Opis

Does your business provide contract-based sales or services? Then you need this comprehensive guide to recognizing your revenue in SAP S/4HANA! Whether you're using classic revenue accounting and reporting (RAR) or optimized contract management (OCM), get step-by-step instructions to configure RAIs and contracts. Then post, reconcile, and report your revenue. Learn about administration and troubleshooting activities, see how to migrate from classic RAR to OCM, and take your first look at event-based revenue recognition. Everything you need for "rev rec" is here!

In this book, you'll learn about:

a. Revenue and Contracts
Get inbound processing up and running with classic and optimized revenue recognition. Set up, process, and extend RAI classes using tools like BRFplus and APIs. Then configure contract management and performance obligations to suit the needs of your business.

b. Posting and Reporting
Learn about revenue reporting options in SAP S/4HANA. Post revenue using ABC jobs, reconcile revenue through the Universal Journal, and integrate revenue with profitability analysis. Extend your reports using new tools like CDS views.

c. Administration and Implementation
Manage your revenue recognition implementation. Learn how to handle performance issues, perform reclassifications, and clean up data. Get troubleshooting tips and insight into the migration from classic RAR to OCM in SAP S/4HANA.

Highlights include:

1) Classic revenue recognition
2) Optimized contract management
3) Revenue accounting item (RAI) classes
4) Inbound processing
5) Contract management
6) Performance obligations
7) Revenue posting
8) Revenue reporting
9) Administration
10) Troubleshooting
11) Migration

Spis treści

· .. Preface ... 19

· ... Target Audience ... 19

· ... How to Read This Book ... 20

· ... How This Book Is Organized ... 20

· ... Conclusion ... 22

· ... Acknowledgments ... 23

· 1 ... Introduction to Governance, Risk and Compliance ... 25

· 1.1 ... Why Use Governance, Risk and Compliance Solutions? ... 25

· 1.2 ... Introduction to SAP Access Control ... 29

· 1.3 ... Architecture and Landscape ... 31

· 1.4 ... Key Capabilities, Supported Systems, and Integration ... 34

· 1.5 ... Cloud Integration ... 37

· 1.6 ... Summary ... 39

· 2 ... Prerequisites ... 41

· 2.1 ... Checking License Agreements and Licensing Requirements ... 41

· 2.2 ... System Sizing ... 45

· 2.3 ... System Time Zone Check ... 47

· 2.4 ... Component and Plug-In Requirements ... 48

· 2.5 ... Summary ... 50

· 3 ... Post-Installation Steps ... 51

· 3.1 ... Quick Checks ... 51

· 3.2 ... Initial Configuration ... 52

· 3.3 ... Multistage Multipath Workflow Initial Configuration ... 70

· 3.4 ... Setting Up Common Parameters ... 85

· 3.5 ... Email Configuration ... 88

· 3.6 ... Summary ... 95

· 4 ... Common Configurations ... 97

· 4.1 ... Configuring Remote Function Call Destinations ... 97

· 4.2 ... Maintaining Connectors and Connection Types ... 116

· 4.3 ... Maintaining Connection Settings ... 119

· 4.4 ... Maintaining Connector Settings ... 123

· 4.5 ... Maintaining Configuration Settings ... 124

· 4.6 ... Maintaining Mapping for Actions and Connector Groups ... 127

· 4.7 ... Configuring Data Sources ... 129

· 4.8 ... Setting Up Background Synchronization Jobs ... 137

· 4.9 ... Distributing Jobs for Parallel Processing ... 145

· 4.10 ... Summary ... 147

· 5 ... Access Risk Analysis ... 149

· 5.1 ... Introduction to Access Risk Analysis ... 149

· 5.2 ... Setting Up Access Risk Analysis ... 157

· 5.3 ... Setting Up Workflows for Access Risk Analysis ... 196

· 5.4 ... Maintaining Custom User Groups ... 197

· 5.5 ... Maintaining Master User ID Mappings ... 199

· 5.6 ... Working with Access Risk Analysis ... 200

· 5.7 ... Working with Mitigation Controls ... 216

· 5.8 ... Setting Up Alerts ... 224

· 5.9 ... Configuring the Risk Terminator ... 228

· 5.10 ... Reports and Analytics ... 230

· 5.11 ... Summary ... 231

· 6 ... Emergency Access Management ... 233

· 6.1 ... Introduction to Emergency Access Management ... 233

· 6.2 ... Configuring Emergency Access Management ... 235

· 6.3 ... Maintaining Emergency Access Management Access Control Owners ... 250

· 6.4 ... Activating Multistage Multipath for Emergency Access Management ... 254

· 6.5 ... ID-Based and Role-Based Emergency Access Management ... 264

· 6.6 ... Setting Up Emergency Access Management Jobs ... 268

· 6.7 ... Emergency Access Management Log Synchronization ... 269

· 6.8 ... Working with Firefighter IDs ... 269

· 6.9 ... Firefighter ID Report Execution ... 271

· 6.10 ... Emergency Access Management Log Reviews ... 273

· 6.11 ... Emergency Access Management Log Types and Details ... 273

· 6.12 ... Summary ... 274

· 7 ... Access Request Management ... 275

· 7.1 ... Introduction to Access Request Management ... 275

· 7.2 ... Setting Up Access Request Management ... 280

· 7.3 ... Using Access Request Management ... 316

· 7.4 ... Summary ... 341

· 8 ... Business Role Management ... 343

· 8.1 ... Introduction to Business Role Management ... 343

· 8.2 ... Setting Up Business Role Management ... 346

· 8.3 ... Maintaining Multistage Multipath Workflows ... 382

· 8.4 ... Working with Roles ... 382

· 8.5 ... Role Mass Maintenance ... 389

· 8.6 ... Role Recertification ... 397

· 8.7 ... Role Management Reports ... 398

· 8.8 ... Summary ... 399

· 9 ... Periodic Reviews ... 401

· 9.1 ... User Access Review ... 402

· 9.2 ... Segregation of Duties Risk Review ... 428

· 9.3 ... Firefighter ID Review ... 440

· 9.4 ... Summary ... 443

· 10 ... End User Home Page ... 445

· 10.1 ... End User Home Page Services ... 445

· 10.2 ... Implementation ... 446

· 10.3 ... Advantages for End User Licenses ... 454

· 10.4 ... Password Self-Service, Access Request Creation, and Managing Access Control Information ... 454

· 10.5 ... Summary ... 466

· 11 ... Multistage Multipath Workflows ... 467

· 11.1 ... Introduction to Multistage Multipath Workflows ... 467

· 11.2 ... Process Global Settings ... 472

· 11.3 ... Maintaining Rules and Rule Results ... 477

· 11.4 ... Maintaining Agents ... 479

· 11.5 ... Setting Up Notification Variables and Templates ... 485

· 11.6 ... Maintaining Paths ... 492

· 11.7 ... Setting Up Notifications: Definition ... 502

· 11.8 ... Maintaining a Route Mapping ... 504

· 11.9 ... Generating Versions ... 506

· 11.10 ... Troubleshooting Multistage Multipath Issues ... 507

· 11.11 ... Summary ... 515

· 12 ... BRFplus: Business Rule Framework ... 517

· 12.1 ... Introduction and Activation ... 517

· 12.2 ... Generating Multistage Multipath Rules for Processes ... 521

· 12.3 ... Understanding BRFplus Scenarios ... 523

· 12.4 ... Creating a BRFplus Routing-Based Rule ... 537

· 12.5 ... Transporting a BRFplus Application ... 550

· 12.6 ... Summary ... 554

· 13 ... SAP Fiori for SAP Access Control ... 555

· 13.1 ... Introduction ... 555

· 13.2 ... SAP Fiori Configuration ... 564

· 13.3 ... Working with SAP Fiori Apps ... 581

· 13.4 ... Troubleshooting SAP Fiori App Issues ... 583

· 13.5 ... Summary ... 586

· 14 ... HR Triggers ... 587

· 14.1 ... Introduction to HR Triggers ... 587

· 14.2 ... Configuring HR Triggers ... 588

· 14.3 ... Troubleshooting HR Trigger Issues with Debugging ... 610

· 14.4 ... Summary ... 612

· 15 ... Enhancements and Developments ... 613

· 15.1 ... Enhancements ... 613

· 15.2 ... Custom Developments ... 637

· 15.3 ... Summary ... 680

· ... The Author ... 681

· ... Index ... 683

O autorze

Sreten Milosavljevic has worked as a senior SAP finance consultant for the past 20 years. Thanks to the perfect storm of IFRS 9, IFRS 15, and IFRS 16, since 2016, his primary focus has been working with revenue accounting and reporting and contract lifecycle management. During this time, he gained experience with most of the industries that are impacted by the implementation of either IFRS 15 or ASC 606, including telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, and high-tech. Sreten is currently involved in solving complex topics for a variety of customers, especially concerning integration points between different systems. Swayam Prabha Shankara has been a technical consultant for more than 16 years. Over this period, she has worked with different technologies to apply the latest approaches. She has been working with revenue accounting and reporting in the SAP space since 2017, beginning with a project for a major telecommunications customer that had complex issues related to data volume and performance. She has continued working on different revenue accounting and reporting projects, updating her skills for SAP HANA, CDS views, and system design and development.