Group Reporting in SAP S/4 Hana Finance

Group reporting consists of topics such as consolidation process and analytical reports and supports the computation, creation, and disclosure of consolidated reports that provide information on the performance of a corporate group.

SAP Group Reporting Data Collection

SAP Group Reporting Data Collection helps you gather financial data for your business units. The app is hosted on the SAP Business Technology Platform and relies on data such as master data and allowed breakdowns from group reporting within SAP S/4HANA.

With SAP Group Reporting Data Collection, you can map data, create forms, design your own reports, and use these or the predefined reports to collect data as part of your data preparation for consolidation.

SAP Analytics Cloud

(SAC) provides deep insights into your business using reporting and data visualization, which will help you make better decisions.

With live data connections, the integration between SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting and SAC enables business analysis at group or corporate level without data replication.

In this release, the following detail and overview reports are available out of the box:

• Consolidated report book for actual data

• Periodic overview report book

• Actual and budget comparison report book

• Actual, budget, and forecast comparison report book

• Predictive consolidated P&L analysis

• Group financial KPIs overview

Consolidation

A complete consolidation process typically starts with preparatory steps, such as setting global parameters, checking the master data of your organizational units and financial statement (FS) items, and specifying effective exchange rates.

After that, you can proceed with collecting data reported by consolidation units, and standardizing the data with features available in the Data Monitor. When the data is ready for consolidation, go to the Consolidation Monitor to perform the consolidation tasks, such as various interunit eliminations and data validation. For a list of the tasks and their descriptions, see Data Monitor and Consolidation Monitor.

Throughout the process, you can cross check your processed data using reconciliation reports and currency translation analysis reports, or generate various group reports in real time.

• In your SAP Fiori front-end server, you can copy a delivered business role to create your own role, adapt its contained business catalogs, and assign the created role to relevant users.

  In addition, you need to set the necessary permissions by authorization object in the back-end systems, for example, restrict the filed values a role can access by using the transaction code PFCG. After that, you can assign the adapted roles to your business users using user administrator tool, such as transaction SU01. For more information, see User and Role Administration of ABAP Platform.

• You have created consolidation units and set the Data Transfer Method to Read from Universal Journal or Flexible Upload, depending on whether they are integrated with company codes in financial accounting (FI). This can be done in the Consolidation Units - Create and Change app.

• You have maintained the FS items for your consolidation charts of accounts and map them to the relevant general ledger accounts. For more information, see Financial Statement Items.

• To use SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting, SAP recommends that you install the SAP Best Practices configuration content for the solution. You will gain a configuration starting point, which you can adapt to your needs in Customizing. Examples in this documentation are based on the SAP Best Practices content.