Preparation (SAP Library - European Monetary Union: Euro (CA-EUR))

Preparation

Purpose

Prior to the start of central changeover, certain preparation work must be carried out both in the user departments and in system administration. You will find further information and a description of the activities in the Implementation Guide.

Some preparations must be made in the fiscal year before the local currency changeover, and you should bear this in mind when planning.

In some components, preparations can only be carried out after the work has been completed in other areas, such as after year-end closing. Year-end closing in Financial Accounting cannot be fully completed once closing operations in Assets Management have been brought to a conclusion. You should take these dependencies into consideration when scheduling the preparation.

Document all the activities that you carry out. You should elect persons within your company to be responsible for carrying out each of these activities in the correct fashion.

When all the preparations are complete, the user departments should inform the system administrators that this is the case so that the system administrators can start the central changeover.

Preparation must be carried out in the following components:

Financial Accounting (FI-AP/FI-AR/FI-GL)
Consolidation (FI-LC)
Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL)
Overhead Cost Controlling (CO-OM)
Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC)
Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA)
Consolidation (EC-CS)
Executive Information System (EC-EIS)
Real Estate Management (IS-RE)
Materials Management (MM)
Project System (PS)

These activities are listed in the Implementation Guide (IMG) under Cross-Application Components ® European Monetary Union - Euro ® Local Currency Changeover ® Preparation.