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You create financial statements as part of year-end closing in accordance with country-specific legal requirements in order to report assets, liabilities, accruals and deferrals, and revenues and expenses.

Prerequisites

For you to be able to create financial statements, the following prerequisites must be met:

  • You have defined a financial statement version. This defines the layout of the financial statements. For more information, see Financial Statement Version.

  • You have completed the preparatory postings for the financial statements. These include, for example, the valuation of foreign currency balances and open items in foreign currency. For more information, see Preparing Financial Statements.

  • For information about preparations for group financial statements, see Preparation for Consolidation.

Features

You can use report RFBILA00 to create the financial statements.

You can configure the financial statements in accordance with your requirements:

  • You can create financial statements for different organizational units, for example, for the whole group, or for an individual company code, business area, and so on.

  • You can create the financial statements in different languages, for example, in the language of the country in which the company code is based, or in the group language.

  • You can create the financial statements in any currency you choose. This might be necessary, for example, if you want to create consolidated financial statements for company codes with different local currencies. You can also create financial statements for different currency types you are using as company code currencies (for example, group currency, index-based currency, hard currency).

  • You can choose between different types of financial statements, for example, opening financial statements or closing financial statements.

  • You can vary the level of detail of your financial statements. For your accounting department, for example, you want to list the individual accounts with their balances. For senior management, you might want to summarize this information to create financial statements for the whole group.

  • The output list is displayed using the ABAP List Viewer, that is, you can configure the output list to meet your requirements. For more information about the editing functions, see SAP List Viewer (ALV): Classic.

Activities

To create financial statements, go to the SAP Easy Access screen and choose   Accounting   Financial Accounting   General Ledger Accounting   Information System   General Ledger Reports   or   General Ledger Reports (New)   Balance Sheet/ Profit and Loss Statement / Cash Flow   General   Actual/Actual Comparisons   Financial Statement  .