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 Financial Statement Analysis

Definition

A report that compares the financial statements from two time periods and determines the differences in the individual financial statement items. The report is based technically on the financial statement version.

Use

You can carry out financial statement analyses for the following time periods:

  • Year comparisons

  • Half-year comparisons

  • Quarterly comparisons

  • Monthly comparisons

You can use both actual and plan data as the basis for these reports, that is, you can execute actual / actual comparisons as well as actual / plan comparisons.

The SAP System includes sample reports for financial statement analysis. You can use these reports as templates for your own reports.

Caution Caution

The SAP standard reports have the naming convention 0SAPBLNCE-01 to 0SAPBLNCE-NN . For your own reports, use a technical name that does not lie within this name range.

End of the caution.

Integration

In addition to the report type financial statement analysis, the SAP System includes the following report types:

  • Financial statement analysis for the cost of sales accounting ledger

SAP provides this report type for cost of sales accounting analysis. This report type is comparable to the report type financial statement analysis . It is, however, based on the data in the cost of sales accounting ledger.

  • Balance display (trial balance)

With the report type balance display, you can evaluate transaction figures. As the basis for financial statement reports, you can use one axis forms with key figures as well as two axis forms with key figures.