Group Reporting with SAP S/4HANA

Perform financial consolidation in your SAP S/4HANA system! With this guide to SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting, learn about the new group reporting architecture and data model. Configure your master data and integrate transactional data for consolidation using the Data Monitor. Walk through your key consolidation tasks, including currency translation, intercompany elimination, financial close, reporting, and more. This is your comprehensive group reporting resource!

• Manage your financial consolidation with SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting
• Configure and run currency translation, intercompany elimination, matrix consolidation, and more
• Create standard and ad-hoc consolidation reports

Configuration

Set up master data elements and global settings to align with your exact specifications. Configure the Data Monitor dashboard to perform transactional data tasks such as data integration, balance carryforward, and data validation.

Consolidation

Follow step-by-step instructions to run your required consolidation processes. Translate currencies, perform intercompany elimination and matrix consolidation, manage consolidation entries, and execute financial close.

Reporting

Walk through the reporting architecture with CDS views and learn about available reporting tools. Use predefined local and group reports, drill-through functionality, and ad-hoc reporting.

• Architecture
• Master data
• Transactional data
• Data Monitor
• Consolidation Monitor
• Currency translation
• Intercompany elimination
• Consolidation of investments
• Consolidation journal entries
• Matrix consolidation
• Financial close
• Reporting

About the Authors

Eric Ryan is an expert in the enterprise performance management (EPM) space with more than 15 years of experience. He's delivered multiple FP&A and consolidation projects using SAP consolidation solutions and is a market leader in the consolidation space, who provides thought leadership to clients controllers and CFOs. Eric participated in group reporting beta testing with the SAP S/4HANA group reporting product team in Germany. He sits on Deloitte's Global CTO council, driving innovation and transformation strategy globally.

Thiagu Bala has been working in the business intelligence and EPM space for more than 20 years and has led/implemented several business intelligence (BI)/business planning and consolidation (BPC) projects. He is the solution owner for several consolidation and EPM solutions for Deloitte.

Satyendra Raghav is a specialist in the finance and enterprise performance management practice at Deloitte. An expert in modeling the architecture for financial consolidations, he has worked with major clients in life sciences and healthcare, chemicals, and retail. He has more than 11 years of experience with SAP and has been involved with implementations of SAP financial planning and consolidation solutions throughout his entire career.

Azharuddin Mohammed is a team lead in the finance practice at Deloitte and a solution architect with expertise in FP&A, financial consolidations, and financial reporting applications. With more than 9 years of experience with SAP, he has solved numerous complex business problems for his clients. He has also conducted multiple training sessions on SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting within Deloitte.