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Your experts for consolidated financial statements.
Here you’ll find everything you need on the topic of consolidated financial statements—concise, clear, and to the point.
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A summary of SAP products related to consolidated financial statements.
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Choosing the right SAP software for consolidated financial statements is a highly individual decision – CALEO supports you with expertise and tailored solutions.
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With over 20 years of experience, CALEO offers in-depth expertise in SAP consolidation solutions and develops customized approaches that optimize processes – backed by satisfied clients whose projects we’re happy to showcase.
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With over 20 years of experience, CALEO offers extensive expertise in SAP financial planning and develops tailored solutions that optimize processes – proven by satisfied clients whose projects we’re happy to showcase.
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SAP BCS FOR SAP BW/4HANA

BCS/4HANA, the solution compatible with SAP BW/4HANA since the beginning of 2019, is an established SAP application that is used by numerous DAX companies for group reporting, consolidated financial statements and group planning. It offers the extensive range of functions of SEM-BCS (Enhancement Package 1 to 8) and adds innovative features.

Strategic decision-making with SAP BCS for SAP BW/4HANA

As the successor to SEM-BCS on the BW/4HANA platform, SAP BCS/4HANA enables the efficient design of consolidation processes. This advanced solution offers extensive functionalities that allow large volumes of data to be processed and analyzed quickly and largely automatically during the closing process. BCS/4HANA supports both actual and planned data and offers long-term stability and investment security thanks to the maintenance promise until 2040. In addition to simpler customizing, the further development also offers improved closing processing and extended posting logic.

SAPBCS for SAP BW/4HANA
Advantages

INVESTMENT SECURITY WITH BCS/4HANA

The functional enhancements of BCS/4HANA are no longer available in the original version of SEM-BCS under SAP NetWeaver. In this respect, BCS/4HANA must be licensed separately and also requires a license for SAP BW/4HANA. BCS/4HANA is licensed via the license for SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting: the purchase of a license for SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting for 50 consolidation units also includes the use of BCS/4HANA for an unlimited number of consolidation units.
BCS/4HANA offers the following key benefits, especially for companies that already use SEM-BCS:

  • Investment protection for the consolidation and group reporting application set up in the past
  • Option to migrate to BW/4HANA as a strategic data warehouse solution from SAP
  • Use of an extended scope of services for preparing consolidated financial statements and planning with BCS/4HANA.
Functions

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS IN BCS/4HANA

Here is an overview of the additional functions in BCS/4HANA that support companies in making their financial processes more efficient.

Increase in consolidation
efficiency

With SAP BCS/4HANA, companies can significantly increase the efficiency of their consolidation processes through automated data integration and real-time reporting.

Standardized reporting:

Create transparency and continuity through homogeneous financial reports. You can also use evaluations across several consolidation groups in the line item listing.

Real-time analysis of financial data:

Use SAP BW/4HANA to gain instant insights based on in-depth data analysis.

Improved corporate governance strategies:

Ensure compliance and control with SAP BCS/4HANA, centralized through your SAP reporting toolkit. Benefit from improved role assignment, status management and workflows.

Further developments in capital consolidation

Adjust the initial consolidation within the automatic consolidation of investments even after the initial consolidation date or use more correct transaction types within the automatic consolidation of investments even without modifications.

Optimized data acquisition

The inclusion of reporting data directly from BW-InfoProvider without storage in the totals record ADSO as well as extended automatic functionalities when entering manual documents optimize runtime and storage costs.

Multidimensional financial analysis:

Draw decision-relevant information from multi-layered data analyses that reflect your organizational structure.

Integration of planning and consolidation:

Standardize your actual consolidation, budgeting and forecasting processes in one system. Use the new developments for restatements - different hierarchy versions and the automatic inversion of documents in subsequent periods for restatements.

Customizable reporting:

Generate user-oriented reports with SAP BCS/4HANA that fit seamlessly into your SAP BW/4 environment.

Future strategies for EC-CS, SAP Financial Consolidation and SEM-BCS

This white paper provides recommendations for action due to the end of life of classic consolidation solutions in the SAP portfolio
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