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  1. 1099 Reporting - The Special G/L Indicator Gets a New Use in Release 4.7
    by Martin Ullmann

    In the many years I have been consulting in the FI area, almost every U.S. client I have worked with has had a common issue - 1099 MISC reporting. The question they have had is how to deal with data outside their SAP system that is subject to 1099 MISC reporting.

  2. Account for Time Zone Differences So That They Do Not Affect Your Global Close
    by Rohana Gunawardena, Senior Consultant, Exium, Inc.

    When a global company has a period-end close, a great deal of coordination needs to occur among the independent locations to make sure that tight deadlines are met. The author provides eight tips to prevent misunderstandings that can occur because of timing differences when you have offices in more than one time zone.

  3. Adapt and Automate SAP Dispute Management
    by Juergen Weiss, Consulting Manager, SAP

    Understand the concept of case records in the context of SAP Dispute Management and learn how to adapt the layout of a dispute case. Look into the implementation of Business Add-Ins within SAP Dispute Management to set up automatic follow-up activities such as determining the next processor of a dispute case.

  4. An Easy Way to Control the Formula Editor View by a User-Specific Parameter
    by Maria Nikolova, SAP Senior Expert, National Electricity Company

    You can assign formulas and logical statements to validations and substitutions in Asset Accounting via Formula Editor. You can control the view of this tool by a standard user-specific parameter.

  5. Archive Search Strategy: The Default Setting Every FI End User Has Active... but May Not Understand
    by Dr. Martin Fischer, Developer, SAP AG

    Working with SAP FI, you probably have become very familiar with the transaction code FB00, which allows you to set up a variety of user-specific FI default settings, such as the line-layout display variant. However, you might be less familiar with its document-archive settings. This article describes the six options for searching the archives, and along the way gives a short introduction to data archiving, its consequences, and its benefits.

  6. Ask the FI/CO Expert: "Can the 'Special Fields' Settings Be Made Available to End Users?"
    by Kim Ciesla

    This month's "Ask the FI/CO Expert" question concerns ABAP List Viewer (ALV) functionality that was introduced in R/3 Release 4.6: specifically, how to make the "Special Fields" (such as Material #, Quantity, User name, and Entry date) available to end users. As this article explains, the secret is to run two quick ABAP programs after you have changed the Yes/No settings.

  7. Ask the FI/CO Expert: "Is CATT the Best Tool for Changing Field Values in Master Data Records Automatically, or Is There a Less Cumbersome Way to Get the Job Done?"
    by Laura Sigman

    "Ask the FI/CO Expert" is a monthly Q&A column where readers can ask FI/CO Expert senior consultants questions on difficulties they've encountered using R/3 functionality. The question for this month's column concerns doing mass updates to accounting information on customer masters. A guest FI/CO Expert senior consultant from ICM America carefully details, step by step, how two SAP end-user tools, the Computer Aided Test Tool (or CATT) and the newer, cross-application Mass Maintenance Tool, can be used to create and change customer master and transaction data.

  8. Ask the FI/CO Expert: Changing an Active "Group Currency" Setting with the SLO (System Landscape Optimization) Toolkit
    by Ali Sarraf, Managing Director, ICM America LLC

    Your only option for changing your group currency might be to use SAP's SLO, which provides tools to deal with change to production R/3 systems.

  9. Ask the FI/CO Expert: How to Manage Customizing Activities Directly in Production Without Using Transports
    by Nathan Genez, Platinum Consultant, SAP America Inc.

    In response to a reader's question, the author explains how to add a new G/L account to the financial statement version directly in the development system. Two confusing vocabulary words, "current settings" and "message control," have an impact on this everyday task.

  10. Ask the SAP Financials Expert: Show the Correct Text in Report Painter/ Writer Reports in the Drill-Down Level
    by Mitresh Kundalia, Director — SAP Practice, Quality Systems & Software, Inc.

    Use a characteristic text variable to drill down in a cost center report and see the text that goes with the new cost center.

  11. Automate CO Data Loads with BATCHMAN
    by Darshan Shah, Platinum Solutions Consultant, itelligence Consulting

    An SAP R/3 Enterprise functionality called BATCHMAN enables the easy upload of selective CO data, including activity rates and statistical key figures for allocations and reporting.

  12. Automate FI Postings by Integration with RE-FX Through Account Determination
    by Siva Prasad Ramachendruni, Senior SAP Financials Consultant (March 2009)

    Account determination in RE-FX improves productivity by automating customer invoicing and increasing the flow of information by executing a periodic posting run. See how to automate your FI postings by integrating FI and Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX) through automatic account determination.

  13. Automate the Creation of a Standard Cost Estimate Using eCATT
    by Akhilesh Mittal, Senior Consultant, Infosys Technologies, Ltd. (December 2008)

    Avoid the complexity that comes with manual execution of costing of materials by using the extended Computer Aided Test Tool (eCATT) to automate the process of creating the standard cost estimate for a material.

  14. Build a Dashboard for Management of Internal Controls
    by Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP AG

    Managers often struggle with the timely availability of compliance-related data and the way the information is visualized for analysis and presentation purposes. You can eliminate these problems by following a four-step process to build a management dashboard for SAP's Management of Internal Controls (MIC) application. You can also use this procedure to build dashboards for other SAP applications and solutions.

  15. Configure and Manage All Period-End Closing Activities with Schedule Manager
    by Anurag Barua, Manager, SAP Application Support, The Washington Post

    See how to create an application in Schedule Manager to carry out period-end closing activities. Discover Schedule Manager’s main components, features, and technical foundation.

  16. Configure SAP Financial Closing Cockpit to Start Close Tasks in Multiple Systems
    by Janet Salmon, Solution Manager, SAP AG

    See improvements made to SAP Financial Closing Cockpit in Enhancement Package 3 that allow it to integrate with SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood and to create close tasks in other systems.

  17. Design Your Own PDF-based Print Forms with Adobe Form Builder
    by Anurag Barua, Manager, SAP Application Support, The Washington Post

    See how to use the newly integrated SAP Interactive Forms software by Adobe to create forms for common business processes such as creating dunning letters.

  18. Eliminate Duplicated Inter-Company AR/AP Postings in Cross-Company Sales Orders
    by Lawrence Chung, FI/CO Consultant

    Learn how to prevent duplicate inter-company AR/AP postings when working with cross-company free-of-charge sales orders.

  19. Enhance Your Report Painter/Report Writer Capabilities with Transaction GRCT
    by Jayesh Narwaney, Senior SAP Support Specialist

    Instead of using ABAP code to write a report in FI and CO, many users build a Report Painter/ Report Writer library using transaction MC27. However, this workaround has some drawbacks. Little known transaction GRCT solves these problems in most cases, and eliminates the need to use transaction MC27.

  20. Excel-Based Upload Tool Easily Updates the Standard Price for Multiple Materials
    by Muralidharan Sethuraman, Infosys Technologies Limited (January 2010)

    Discover how to use a custom Microsoft Excel upload tool rather than out-of-the-box functionality to update the standard price of a raw material for inventory valuation. Learn about additional functionalities and system validations the custom tool offers to create a more efficient and accurate business process for updating the standard price of raw materials.

  21. Fast Data Conversion, Migration, and Updates for Functional Analysts with LSMW
    by Mitresh Kundalia, Senior FI/CO Consultant, Zen & Art

    Data conversion is no longer a one-time activity. Gone are the days when it was required only during an initial SAP implementation project. Here are some day-to-day business scenarios when you may be called upon to convert data.

  22. FI/CO Expert Web Site Review: Babylon.com
    by Dr. Oliver Hatzfeld, Manager SCM with ICM AG's Kronberg (Germany) Office

    This article evaluates the online and offline features of "www.babylon.com," a useful translation, information, and conversion tool that allows you to type in a word, phrase, or acronym, and launch a search for definitions, facts, and translations into foreign languages ... without actually being connected to the Internet at the time. After a review of the site and its free viewing program and dictionary/glossary downloads, there are three demonstration exercises that give you a chance to try the tool out for yourself.

  23. Find FI/CO Customization Discrepancies Fast with R/3's Standard CCSV Tool
    by Nathan Genez, SAP Platinum Consultant, SAP America Inc.

    Have you ever had a business process fail in one system but work fine in another? It's hard enough trying to figure out what configuration setting is responsible for a process failure, but it's even harder when the configuration is inconsistent between R/3 systems. The good news is that SAP ships a customizing tool that will facilitate this process in a quick and accurate manner. Not well known in the FI/CO community of users, it's called the Customizing Cross-System Viewer (CCSV).

  24. Find Table Fields When All Else Fails
    by John Jordan, ERP Corp

    Learn a failsafe method for finding table and field names using Runtime Analysis with transaction SE30. The method is particularly useful when you need to view or download information directly in SAP tables. First determine the table and field names with Runtime Analysis, and then view them with the Data Browser with transaction SE16N.

  25. Formula Builder + BAdI = Easier Application of Business Logic
    by Anurag Barua, Manager, SAP Application Support, The Washington Post

    As of SAP Enterprise Release 4.7, Formula Builder functionality is embedded in all Business Add-Ins (BAdIs). That means you can assign formulas and logical statements to validations, substitutions, and rules without having to resort to ABAP code.

  26. Get a Quick Start with SEM by Implementing Performance Monitoring in a Flash
    by Matt Christensen, Senior Consultant, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group

    To demonstrate the value of Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), you can quickly implement a Management Cockpit by integrating a cockpit with Business Planning and Simulation (BPS) functionality. The cockpit can demonstrate to managers how SEM helps companies plan, illustrate, and communicate executive strategy.

  27. Give Users Fast Access to Archived FI Line Items
    by Dr. Martin Fischer, Developer, SAP AG

    To maximize system performance, you need efficient data management. This especially applies to the biggest tables in the R/3 system such as line item tables and related indexes — for example, FI line item secondary index table BSIS. A new functionality introduced last year (archive connection for FI line item lists) helps manage the size of your database. It allows you to view line items from the archive as well as from the database.

  28. How to Pivot SAP BW Queries
    by Joerg Boeke, Director of Business Intelligence, syskoplan AG Germany

    Although BW provides filter and drill-down functionality, many BW users miss the pivoting functionality of MS Excel. The author provides seven easy steps to enable drag-and-drop functionality in SAP BW queries. This gives end users the power to optimize their BW queries.

  29. How to Use Formula Variables in Report Painter for Dynamic Trend Reporting
    by Matt Christensen, Senior Consultant, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group

    Upper management often needs reports that track financial trends over time, but the resulting reports can be inflexible, expensive, and confusing. The author shows power users how to create a single report that compares the closing period with plan, each of the previous four periods, quarter to date, year to date, and the corresponding time frames from the preceding year.

  30. Improve Your Asset Reporting with Two Overlooked Tools
    by Thomas Michael, Senior SAP Product Expert, Michael Management Corporation

    Preview Thomas Michael’s new SAP PRESS book Reporting for SAP Asset Accounting in this excerpt to see some key reporting features in Asset Accounting (FI-AA). The book reviews both the various kinds of standard reports available and some important reporting tools that users often overlook.

  31. In-House Cash Center Manages Payment Processes
    by Aylin Korkmaz, Accenture

    For many global companies, it makes sense to reduce overhead by consolidating their payment processes. SAP users can accomplish this by using the In-House Cash (IHC) component. The author describes the capabilities and configuration of the IHC.

  32. Increase the Report Writer/Report Painter Toolset Query Capabilities in Less Than an Hour
    by Tami Becker, SAP Platinum Consultant, SAP America Inc.

    By adding FI and CO tables that are not in the standard Report Writer/Report Painter library, you can give yourself more options for creating queries using these tools.

  33. Integrate Your Extended Warranty Program with FI/CO
    by Qian (Sharon) Tang, System Project Manager

    Once the SAP Customer Service (CS) component is fully integrated with your FI/CO modules, it can track many business processes such as standard warranty. However, it may not be able to effectively account for all of your business processes. The author, who recently created an extended warranty workaround to adapt a company's system to provide better service to customers, shares her lessons learned.

  34. Layer SAP xApp Analytics on Top of SAP SEM for a Simplified Balanced Scorecard
    by Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP AG

    You can streamline the user interface for Strategic Enterprise Management and Corporate Performance Monitor by adopting the Best Practice Scorecarding application, which is part of SAP xApp Analytics. You then can provide users with graphical views of their key performance indicators via a portal.

  35. Lessons Learned from Using Solution Manager for an Implementation Project
    by Darshan Shah, Platinum Solutions Architect, itelligence, Inc.

    SAP Solution Manager, the successor to ASAP/ValueSAP, boasts features such as project preparation, an implementation roadmap, the ability to manage multiple projects, and compatibility with legacy systems and R/3. The author, who worked on one of the first U.S. implementations of Solution Manager, shares his advice on how to optimize this tool.

  36. Make the SEM Management Cockpit More Useful with Drill-Down Configuration
    by Paul Halley, Director of Strategic Enterprise Management, Business Information Solutions

    SEM's Management Cockpit (MC) creates easy-to-use graphics that display data of all types. While most executives want to see the summarized data that the cockpit displays so well, they also want to be able to examine the details of that data. The author explains how to use a little known piece of functionality that allows a user to drill down from an MC graph to a BW query. From there, the user then can drill down further into an R/3 line item report.

  37. Manage Credit Card Expenses with mySAP ERP Travel Management
    by Debbie Peake, SAP Labs LLC

    mySAP ERP Travel Management supports expense reporting and management of all types of corporate credit cards and business travel activity. Learn what the options are, what other companies are doing, and how you can leverage your systems to save money, streamline processes, and prevent fraud.

  38. Manager Self-Service's Monitors Send Budget Alerts to Managers
    by Markus Kuppe, Director of Product Management, mySAP Financials Portals Solutions, SAP AG

    As part of a series on Manager Self-Service (MSS), the author takes a closer look at the various monitors that alert managers before budgets are overrun. The alerts are based on rules the finance department or managers define.

  39. Meet Complex Business Requirements with User Exits in SEM-BPS
    by Matt Christensen, Director of Enterprise Performance Management, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group

    You can easily customize SAP's Business Planning and Simulation (SEM-BPS) module with user-defined functional enhancements to achieve specific or advanced business requirements.

  40. Nine Tips for Dealing with Zero Decimal Place Currencies
    by Rohana Gunawardena, Senior Consultant, Exium Inc.

    The U.S. dollar, like many of the world's currencies including the euro, uses two decimal places, which - not surprisingly - is the default setting for R/3. When you roll out your SAP functionality across geographies, however, you may run in trouble coping with currencies with other decimal-place demands. The author provides tips to help you avoid mistakes when viewing or working with various currencies.

  41. Part 1: Payment Formats Unwieldy? Maintain Them with the Payment Medium Workbench
    by Juergen Weiss, SEPA-Now Consulting (January 2009)

    Replace your classic RFFO* payment medium programs with the little-known functionalities of the Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) within the SAP Financials module. Understand the relevant configuration, functionality, and different processes of the PMW.

  42. Part 2: An Introduction to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
    by Ryan Leask, Director, BPC Solution Management, Enterprise Performance Management, SAP BusinessObjects, and Prakash Darji, Director, BPC Solution Management, Enterprise Performance Management, SAP BusinessObjects

    Learn some of the different features and functions to support planning and consolidation requirements in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC). This includes creating input schedules for planning, posting journal entries, and using script logic for creating planning functions and consolidation logic in BPC.

  43. Part 2: Payment Formats Unwieldy? Visualize Them with the Payment Medium Workbench
    by Juergen Weiss, SEPA-Now Consulting (June 2009)

    Learn how to model payment file structures with the graphical editor of the Data Medium Exchange Engine (DMEE). Understand the various node types that are available to create your own payment format trees and their differences. Comprehend the technical architecture, the graphical user interface, and the relevant configuration of the DMEE. Find out how the DMEE is integrated with the Payment Medium Workbench (PMW).

  44. Plants Abroad Eases Country-Specific Tax Reporting
    by Kees van Westerop, Senior SAP Consultant, Atos Origin

    When setting up an SAP system in new countries, one of the most difficult parts is setting up the correct tax system. Part of the tax system in SAP can be the Plants Abroad functionality. See under which circumstances you might want to start using Plants Abroad and the legal requirements that can affect your system. View required customizing activities and an example of the results when using Plants Abroad for a cross-border stock transfer.

  45. Provide Report Writer and BW Reports Without Selection Screens
    by Markus Kuppe, Director Product Management, mySAP Financials Portal Solutions, SAP AG

    Manager Self-Service (MSS) provides your end users with new reporting functionalities - reports without selection screens, a new set of tables that stores their selection criteria per user, and the ability to look at more than one report on a screen. This article is the third in a series on MSS, which is standard Business Package that comes with SAP Enterprise Portal.

  46. Quick Tip: A Sneak Peek into the Standard Templates of Adobe Interactive Forms
    by Anurag Barua, Manager, SAP Application Support, The Washington Post

    Adobe and SAP teamed up to provide functionality that integrates SAP technology with Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See some of the standard templates provided and some of the new features offered.

  47. Quick Tip: Create a Transaction Code for Report Painter Reports Properly
    by Martin Ullmann, President, DAP Consulting

    Users often create transaction codes to execute Report Painter reports and then receive an error message when trying to transport them. See how to avoid this by correctly creating transaction codes for Report Painter reports.

  48. Quick Tip: Keep Your Chart of Accounts in Synch Across Clients and Environments
    by Quentin Hurst, Senior Principal, Virtuoso LLC

    SAP provides two seldom-uses tools that will help you keep your Chart of Accounts in synch among multiple instances and clients. This article describes where to find them and how they work.

  49. Quick Tip: Simplify and Improve Document Output with Smart Forms
    by Rajen Iyer, CPIM, PMP, SAP America, Inc

    Smart Forms is a tool first delivered with R/3 Release 4.6 for printing and sending documents via email, Web, and fax. The supporting technology allows you to configure and deploy Smart Forms as a workflow-based or event-driven functionality.

  50. Quick Tip: Simplify Large R/3 Downloads with the Personal Data Miner for SAP
    by Charles Powell, Asset Management Manager

    The author was spending more than eight hours a day downloading data for use in integration with other databases. He says the Personal Data Miner for SAP written by John White allows him to create macros and run the R/3 downloads when he goes home in the evening.

  51. Quick Tip: Streamline Your Payment Processing with Free Selections
    by Anurag Barua, Manager, SAP Application Support, The Washington Post

    Master this handy, underused tool in minutes and make the automatic payment program work even better and more smoothly in your system.

  52. Quick Tip: Test Your Currency Translation Settings with a Hidden Tool
    by Kees van Westerop, Senior SAP Consultant, Kwest Consulting

    Use a testing tool in a very simple way to check the results of your customizing for the currency translation.

  53. Quick Tip: Which Transactions to Test First? Use RBE to Prioritize
    by Mitresh Kundalia, SAP Practice Manager, Quality Systems & Software Inc.

    Using the Reverse Business Engineer (RBE) tool for R/3 Releases 3.0D to 4.6C, you can easily identify which transactions are most heavily used. Then you can focus your limited testing resources where they matter most.

  54. RE-FX Builds on RE-Classic with Improved MDM and Document Processing
    by Praveen Garapati, Lead SAP Functional Specialist, KAUST

    Learn the features of SAP’s latest real estate solution, Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX), and see how it differs from and improves on its predecessor, RE-classic.

  55. Reconcile Differing Financial Periods with Fiscal Year Change
    by Frank J. Stanley, SAP

    Restructure your financial and special periods to unify your financial reporting under one fiscal year.

  56. Reduce Your ABAP Development by Using the Mass Maintenance Tool
    by Mark Chalfen, Solution Architect, Bluefin Solutions (March 2009)

    Use a standard SAP transaction to make mass changes to both master data fields and accounting documents. This removes the need for one-time ABAP development, saving internal costs and enabling a best practice for your organization.

  57. Safeguard Your SAP SEM Balanced Scorecard Data When Migrating to SAP Strategy Management
    by Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP AG

    Learn about the migration path for scorecard data from SAP Strategic Enterprise Management Balanced Scorecard to SAP Strategy Management. Navigate around the pitfalls of a migration process and safeguard valuable scorecard data, such as strategic objectives and key performance indicators.

  58. SAP Closing Cockpit in mySAP ERP Automates Fast Close
    by Gary Fullmer, SAP

    Learn about SAP Closing Cockpit and its two central features, a template and a task list. See how it can help you perform a fast close.

  59. SAP Consolidation Strategy: SAP BW-Based SEM-BCS vs. R/3 EC-CS
    by Paul Halley, Director SEM Practice, Business Information Solutions (BIS) and Alan Hildebrandt, Managing Director, BIS Canada, Inc

    An integrated financial consolidation system is crucial to facilitate the month-end closing process. Weigh the functionalities of two SAP consolidation tools, EC-CS and Business Information Warehouse (BW)-based SEM-BCS.

  60. Set Up Users for SAP Biller Direct the Right Way
    by Juergen Weiss, Consulting Manager, SAP

    Look into the user management concept within SAP Biller Direct to understand how to set up users, assign business partners, and provide ongoing enrollment and user registration services. See the fundamental differences between various user types and review recommendations for user management locations either within the SAP system or in a separate database.

  61. Speed Up Security Testing Using eCATT
    by Jayesh Narwaney, Senior SAP Support Specialist

    The Extended Computer Aided Test Tool (eCATT), successor of SAP’s CATT, can test a wide range of SAP applications running in the SAPGUI for Windows or Java environments. It can also access data in the database (including customizing data) and ABAP coding on the application server. See how to use eCATT to speed up testing over multiple users.

  62. Synchronize Master Data Between Customer Master Data and Business Partner
    by Siva Prasad Ramachendruni, SAP Financials Consultant, Intelligroup, Inc.

    See how to synchronize master data between a customer and business partner in an SAP ERP system. With this synchronization, you streamline master data, avoid redundancy, and protect master data integrity.

  63. The New SAP Management of Internal Controls Application Aims to Ease SOA Compliance
    by Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP AG

    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) deadline is imminent and similar legislation is expected soon in Europe and other regions. To help you comply with SOA requirements, SAP has created an application called SAP Management of Internal Controls (MIC). The author discusses what you need to install MIC and how it can meet your specific requirements. He provides an example that shows the ways in which MIC streamlines an internal controls project.

  64. This Time Tomorrow, You Could Be on the Way to a Successful Audit Preparation... With the Free DAta Retention Tool (DART)
    by Tami Becker, SAP Platinum Consultant

    As preparation for a potential IRS tax audit, tax departments must determine which of their many kinds of business documents and transaction data need to be kept in each of two kinds of formats: Paper-based and Electronic. To meet the Electronic format requirements, many R/3 sites, prior to R/3 release 4.6, required custom ABAP programs to extract and convert the needed business data into reusable, offline files. But the R/3 software now includes a simple tool you can use to design your audit preparation tools - the DART. This article shows you, step by step, how to get the DART up and running.

  65. Tips and Tricks from the Trenches
    by Gary Fullmer, Product Manager, SAP Financials

    This is a monthly column where SAP Financials product manager, Gary Fullmer, shares tips and tricks from SAP experts, including SAP product managers and SAP consultants, on ways current FI/CO capabilities can be more fully utilized and expanded. For this first column, a senior FI/CO configurator and former SAP FI/CO platinum consultant discusses some useful FI/CO-relevant programs, which are not accessible through menu paths.

  66. Track the Lifecycle of Your Payments with SAP Bank Communication Management
    by Juergen Weiss, SEPA-now Consulting

    Become familiar with the new component SAP Bank Communication Management, which allows you to better track the approval process of outgoing payments in your SAP ERP system. Understand the integration of this component into SAP ERP Financials and learn some key concepts to set up the batching and status tracking of payment flows as well as the configuration of release procedures.

  67. Upload Master Data Using the BAPI Method in SAP LSMW
    by Siva Prasad Ramachendruni, SAP Financials Consultant

    When batch input recording is too cumbersome for uploading data, you can use a BAPI using SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench in SAP ERP Central Component. See how to do this with specific reference to Flexible Real Estate Management.

  68. Use CATT to Test Your End-to-End Business Processes
    by Mitresh Kundalia, Director - SAP Practice, Quality Systems & Software Inc.

    Consider using SAP's Computer-Aided Test Tool (CATT) when you are implementing a new system or upgrading. The author uses the example of the order-to-cash process to demonstrate its capabilities.

  69. Use LSMW to Load Files with Multiple Source Structures
    by Yuval Nir, Managing Director, TLR Tech Ltd.

    Learn how to load sequential files with multiple source structures using the Legacy System Migration Workbench by following an example of uploading journal entries.

  70. View Your Profit and Loss Data and Analyze Your Investments Using Visual Composer
    by Jean-Hubert Guillot, SAP

    See how two applications of Visual Composer, the Profit Center Accounting dashboard and the Investment Approval template, work in conjunction with SAP ERP financial functions. Discover the elements of their user interfaces and see how they can help your company evaluate its financial data.

  71. Want to Automate Your Monthly or Yearly Accruals?
    by Tony Rogan, Senior Consultant, Hitachi Consulting

    SAP R/3 4.7 functionality offers the choice of automating your accrual processing. Learn about the SAP R/3 Accrual Engine and see how it compares to R/3's accrual/deferral feature.

  72. When You Need a Report They Did Not Build, Consider QuickViewer
    by Drs. Stef G. M. Cornelissen, SAP Consultant, Proxyon B.V.

    To quote from a recent experience: "Can you show me how to list manually entered exchange rates and the amounts involved? I want to do a sanity check on possible typos."

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