Definition of Reporting Requirements 
Definition of Reporting Requirements
Use
Different organizational units can have very different reporting requirements.
For the legal units of an enterprise (companies), there are legal requirements for reports that describe the enterprise’s periodic success and the general economic situation.
No legal requirements exist, however, for reports that pertain to the strategic business units of an enterprise. Internal reports are based on the requirements set by those who control the strategic and operative side of the business unit.
Integration
In the R/3 System, organizational structures control business processes using master and control data. The business processes supply data back to the organizational units as a by-product of the individual process steps. This data can be summarized at the level of different organizational units (operating concern, business area, profit center, and so on) to form different types of strategic information (balance sheets, profitability analyses, and so on).
Typical report requirements for strategic business units or their subdivisions include: