In the area of the IBU Financial Services, the change document tool is the tool used to generate and represent change documents. We advise you to make use of it in every application that involves change documents. It provides the following:

• A programming model (interface description, API) that assists the application developer in duly and properly generating and representing change documents
• An own visual formatting of the change documents (amodal window) that you have to embed in every application
• A Customizing model that assists the application developer and SAP customers to adapt the change document tool to suit their own requirements

You can use the change document tool to achieve the following:

• Increased auditing security by uniform handling of all change documents
• Improved user-friendliness by

• uniform user interfaces in all applications in the area of the IBU Financial Services
• simple and efficient search for change documents
• plain text display of key values
• provision of different views (business and technical) that are tailored to the roles of the end users.