These reports are based on hierarchical financial statement versions stored in Financial Accounting. The system provides you with the option to perform difference analyses based on actual and plan data at any time (yearly, half-yearly, quarterly, and monthly comparisons).

You can compare actual data to actual data or plan data to actual data with:

• Year comparisons
• Half-year comparisons
• Quarter comparisons
• Month comparisons

Using selected examples, the following topics describe how to carry out: