Financial Analytics

Main Process

 

Includes a series of standard analyses to meet the needs of all users ranging from the chief financial officer to individual line managers and sales assistants responsible for improving the contribution margin for an individual market segment. Examples of financial reports include financial statements, asset reports, accounts receivables and accounts payable, and inventory statements. Examples of management reports include operating expenses per cost center/business process/service, cost of goods manufactured per product, and contribution margins per market segment.

Provides strategic planning of financial results for multiple years based on generic and/or business-specific value drivers. Allows you to collaboratively plan the profit & loss statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, to accelerate this complex process. Supports a structured entry of capital requirements by organizational unit.

Provides an analytical planning workbench to model planning scenarios as well as preconfigured planning applications for a quick start of operational planning (for example, cost center planning and sales planning). Supports traditional budgeting and rolling forecasts and collaborative planning. Data integrity is ensured, and planning cycles are reduced dramatically using workflow and status tracking.

For a complete overview about SAP functionality in this area, see also the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application within SAP Corporate Performance Management (CPM).  

Allows you to analyze the profitability of your products and services by multiple dimensions, such as customer and region. Provides in-depth cost analysis, which leads to a better understanding of the profitability of your products and services. Integrates the embedded profitability planning capability with other planning applications.

For a complete overview about SAP functionality in this area, see also the SAP Business Profitability Management by Acorn application within SAP Corporate Performance Management (CPM).

Enables you to know the costs incurred by your products and services. Breaks down the costs for each step of the production process. Involves lot-based and periodic cost management at the level of orders and materials as well as the level of individual sales document items. Interfaces to a simulation-oriented costing platform and provides input for re-engineering and product design cost estimate.

Supports various methodologies for the assignment of overhead costs to cost objects, ranging from pro rata allocations of period expenses to causal cost assignments, or Activity Based Costing using drivers tracked in the ERP system. This provides allocation methods to suit your business needs and allows fast implementation with reduced cost.

For a complete overview about SAP functionality in this area, see also the SAP Business Profitability Management by Acorn appliation within SAP Corporate Performance Management (CPM).

Provides support for the management of receivables via the analysis of the payment history. Determines the days sales outstanding (DSO) as a basis for the optimization of payment conditions.

Enables you to fulfill statutory requirements according to multiple GAAPs and provide up-to-date information to management. Includes comprehensive accounting functions operating on multi-dimensional data structures. Customer-definable organizational units (for example, companies, business areas, and profit centers), support for matrix organizations. Monitor for the graphical control of the entire process from data collection through consolidation. Decentralized access to the consolidation system.

For a complete overview about SAP functionality in this area, see also the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application within SAP Corporate Performance Management (CPM).

Helps operationalize your strategies through translation into strategic objectives, targets for qualitative / quantitative measures and resource allocation via strategic action programs (initiatives). Value-based management provides the effective link between strategy, measurement, and processes to create shareholder value.

For a complete overview about SAP functionality in this area, see also the SAP Strategy Management application within SAP Corporate Performance Management (CPM).

Addresses the need for an enterprise to perform reliable risk management - a requirement that is becoming increasingly important. Organizations must constantly keep up with new commercial and corporate legal regulations, as well as inherent market and operational risks.

For a complete overview about SAP functionality in this area, see also the Risk Management application within SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (GRC).

Enables you to display measures in an ergonomically suitable way. The exception-based analysis function allows middle to senior management to quickly assess the business performance of business units.

For a complete overview about SAP functionality in this area, see also the SAP Strategy Management application within SAP Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and functionality available in SAP NetWeaver.

Manages corporate master data (such as details on legal entities) and relationships to and between individuals (such as board members or auditors). Manages ownership relationships for subsidiaries and minority-owned entities with details on investments, equity, and shares. Supports the investment process including integration to Financial Accounting and Consolidation capabilities. Supports data collection and KPI reporting for entities. Encompasses legal and statutory reporting on ownerships and relationships.