Securities 

Purpose

The securities component enables you to manage your securities transactions and positions.

Integration

The Securities Management module is a subcomponent of Treasury Management and is closely integrated with other SAP components. Treasury Management itself is closely linked to Cash Management and Market Risk Management.

It is also closely linked to the SAP Financial Accounting component, since all the data that is relevant for posting in Securities Management is transferred to the financial accounting department.

You can maintain current market data (exchange rates, securities prices, reference interest rates, indexes...) in three ways:

Go to the Securities component by choosing Accounting ® Treasury ® Treasury Management ® Securities.

Features

Securities Management: Overview

Transaction and position management

The functions for managing your securities transactions and positions are split into three areas: trading, back office, and accounting.

Trading

The trading area groups together the functions for entering Security Transactions. It also enables you to also call up information on transactions or make changes at a later date. You can use the collective processing functions to manage your transactions efficiently.

The functions for Exercising Security Rights are also assigned to this area.

Additional functions, such as the Securities Account Cash Flow and Date Check are available to support traders.

Back office

Once you have entered financial transactions in the trading area, you settle the transactions in the back-office area. Functions for controlling and changing transactions are also available here. The key aspects of postprocessing are the following:

You can also use the collective processing functions in this area. The back office also includes functions for Netting transactions and for entering or editing References.

In addition, the position management functions belong in the back-office area. These include Securities Account Transfers, Corporate Actions, Updating Planned Records, processing disposition blocks, and the EMU additional functions.

Accounting

After you have entered the transactions in the Trading area and checked and completed them in the Back office area, they are then processed for accounting purposes. The accounting area includes functions for transferring data to Financial Accounting, such as posting reports or position management postings. It also includes functions for performing closing operations.

In detail, these are functions for posting or reversing transaction flows, for entering additional individual flows, for posting payments that recur regularly, such as interest payments, and for posting and reversing corporate actions. Reports for Period-end closing, Interest accruals/deferrals, and Rate/price valuation and Amortization for key date valuations are available to help you perform your closing operations.

Master data management

You use manage your transactions in Treasury Management on the basis of master data. In the Securities area, you have to enter business partner data (depository bank, issuer, counterparty), class data, securities account master data, and position indicators. You also have to maintain security prices.

See also:

Process Flow of Master Data Entry

Information System

The information system provides a whole range of reports for analyzing your security positions and position trends. The Securities Information System is part of the Treasury Information System, which offers analyses and evaluations across the whole of the SAP Treasury dataset. These reports are useful for the information they provide about the position and flow data for the transactions you have concluded and the business partners involved in the transaction process.

The connection to the drilldown reporting tool also allows you to define reports other than the standard SAP reports that are delivered with the system.