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Period End Closing Financial Accounting

Period End Closing Financial Accounting. SAP Best Practices. Purpose, Benefits, and Key Process Steps. Purpose The closing operations component helps you prepare and carry out the activities required for day-end, month-end and year-end closing.

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Period End Closing Financial Accounting

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  1. Period End Closing Financial Accounting SAP Best Practices

  2. Purpose, Benefits, and Key Process Steps • Purpose • The closing operations component helps you prepare and carry out the activities required for day-end, month-end and year-end closing. • For this purpose, the system provides a series of standard reports that can be used to generate evaluations and analyses of the posted account balances directly. • Benefits • The system helps you to carry out the following: • create the balance sheets and P&L statements and • document the posting data. • Key Process Steps • day-end closing, • month-end closing and • year-end closing.

  3. Required SAP Applications and Company Roles • Required SAP Applications • Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 • Company Roles • Finance Manager • General Ledger Accountant • Accounts Payable Manager • Accounts Receivable Manager

  4. Detailed Process Description • Day-end closing in Financial Accounting • Update Exchange Rates • Gaps in Document Number Assignment • Invoice Numbers Allocated Twice • Display Compact Document Journal. • Clear Reversed Invoices • Offsetting Account Determination • Account balance, Local Currency Procedure

  5. Detailed Process Description • Month-end closing in Financial Accounting (I) • Update Exchange Rates • Gaps in Document Number Assignment • Invoice Numbers Allocated Twice • Open and Close Posting Periods • Enter Recurring Entries • Post Recurring Entries • Run Batch Input Session • Automatic Clearing of GR/ IR Account • Analyze GR/ IR Clearing Accounts • Automatic Clearing • Manual Clearing

  6. Detailed Process Description • Month-end closing in Financial Accounting (II) • Foreign Currency Revaluation • Post Tax Payable(Posting Tax Amounts Manually) • Preparing data for VAT declaration • Comparative Analysis • Close Previous Accounting Period • Display Document Journal • Financial Statement. • Analyses of Sales Volume by Customers and Vendors • Payment Analyses for Customers and Vendors

  7. Detailed Process Description • Year-end closing in Financial Accounting • Create Factory Calendar for New Year • Carry Forward AP/ AR Balances • Carry Forward GL Balances • Re-grouping Receivables/ Payables • Balance Confirmation Receivable • Balance Confirmation Payable • Balance Notification with Contractors • Final Close and Release Financial Reporting • Close Previous Accounting Period • Display Document Journal.

  8. Process Flow Diagram Process 1, Day-End Closing Event Updating Evaluation Posting Reporting Finance Manager General Ledger Accountant Update Exchange Rates Clear Reversed Invoices Process Decision Offsetting Account Determination Account balance, Local Currency Display Compact Document Journal Gaps in Document Number Assignment Invoice Numbers Allocated Twice

  9. Process Flow Diagram Process 2, Month-End-Closing (I) Event Updating Evaluation Posting Finance Manager Process Decision Process Decision Process Decision 3 Update Exchange Rates Automatic Clearing(Equal Amounts) Gaps in Document Number Assignment Post Adjustment Entries Enter Recurring Entries Automatic Clearing for customers and vendors Open and Close Posting Periods Invoice Numbers Allocated Twice Post Recurring Entries Foreign Currency Revaluation Manual Clearing Close Previous Accounting Period Comparison Documents/ Transaction Figures Post Tax Payable Run Batch Input Session 2 Preparing data for VAT declaration Balance Interest Calculation 4 Advance Return for Tax on Sales / Purchases

  10. 4 2 3 Process Flow Diagram Process 2, Month-End-Closing (II) Event Clearing Reporting Finance Manager Display Document Journal Analyze GR/ IR Clearing Account Financial Statement Automatic Clearing of GR/ IR Account Entering Recurring Entries Displaying the Document Journal Financial Statements Analyses of Sales Volume by Customers and Vendors Payment Analyses for Customers and Vendors Accounts Payable Manager Automatic Clearing of GR/ IR Account Special Process

  11. Process Flow Diagram Process 3, Year-End-Closing Event Updating Reporting Finance Manager Finance Manager Process Decision Create Factory Calendar for New Year General Ledger Accountant Carry Forward AP/ AR Balances Carry Forward GL Balances Final Close and Release Financial Reporting Regrouping Receivables/ Payables Close Previous Accounting Period Display Document Journal Accounts Receivable Manager Balance Confirmation Receivable Accounts Payable Manager Balance Confirmation Payable Contractors Balance Notification with Contractors GL = General Ledger

  12. Diagram Connection Legend <Function> Hardcopy / Document External to SAP Financial Actuals Business Activity / Event Budget Planning Unit Process Manual Process Process Reference Existing Version / Data Sub-Process Reference Process Decision System Pass/Fail Decision

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