Activation Per Consolidation Area

If you have activated this business function, you can activate or deactivate the Adjustment of Deferred Taxes function per consolidation area.

Suppress Tax Adjustment for Specific Items

You can flexibly configure the posting of deferred taxes, as you can also do with the Financials, Group Close business function from Enhancement Package 2. If you do not require the adjustment of deferred taxes for specific balance sheet items, you can suppress this function for these items.

Balance Carryforward Tasks

In the configuration of balance carryforward tasks, you can specify an assignment to posting levels, as you can also do with the Financials, Group Close business function from Enhancement Package 2.

Automatic Posting of Tax Adjustments During Period Initialization

The standardizing entries for the adjustment of deferred taxes are made using tasks of category period initialization. You create multiple period initialization tasks that post on different posting levels.

When you execute these tasks in the consolidation monitor, the system selects the data records that are to be adjusted, calculates the required adjustments, and posts the corresponding documents.

For more information, see Adjustment of Deferred Taxes.

Integrated loading from data stream for main asset number and asset subnumber

As of SEM-BCS 6.0, you can specify that the system is also to upload independent fields of a compound of characteristics during the flexible upload of assets/liabilities.

If you activate the new business function, you can also use this function for the Load from Data Stream data collection method.

For more information, see Load from Data Stream.

Balance carryforward of equity data in accordance with totals data for equity method of consolidation

If the equity is read partly from the totals database and partly from additional financial data, a special logic is used in the balance carryforward for fully consolidated units (purchase methods). This special logic ensures consistency between the totals data and the additional financial data in the following year even if the location of the values changes.

If you activate the new business function, you can also activate this special logic in the configuration of balance carryforward tasks for units consolidated according to the equity method.

For more information, see Balance Carryforward with "Different" Locations of Equity Data.

Reporting mode “Reference”

You can use this reporting mode to expand the enterprise hierarchy for the reference period. The system only displays the data records that were posted in a period when a company belonged to the group according to the hierarchy of the reference period.

For more information, see Technical Reports.

Elimination of IU profit and loss in the current assets without inventory data stream

If you have activated the Financials, Group Close business function from Enhancement Package 2, the system can read the inventory data not only from the additional financial data, but alternatively also from the totals database. Until now, it was necessary to generate an inventory data stream even if the data was read from the totals database.

If you activate the new business function, you can use the elimination of IU profit and loss in the current assets without generating an inventory data stream as long as the inventory data is read from the totals database.

For more information, see Location of Inventory Data.

Validation of investment data from the totals database

Until now, only additional financial data was checked during the validation of investment data. The totals data for investment was not checked until runtime during the consolidation of investments.

If you activate the new business function, you can also have the system check investment data from the totals database during this validation.

For more information, see Validation of Additional Financial Data.

Interpretation of divestitures during the posting of group shares

When executing a task of category Posting of Group Shares and when analyzing the group shares, you can specify that the system is to interpret total divestitures and investor-induced partial divestitures in the same way as it does during the consolidation of investments.

Execution of task groups without automatic blocking

If you have activated the Financials, Group Close business function from Enhancement Package 2, you can update task groups in the consolidation monitor with or without blocking. Until now, you could only update task groups in the consolidation workbench and in batch processing with automatic blocking.

If you activate the new business function, you can update task groups in the consolidation workbench and in batch processing without automatic blocking.

For more information, see Execution of Task Groups and Status Changes and Background Processing of Tasks and Task Groups.