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 Account-Based Profitability Analysis Changed

 

Account-based profitability analysis is now based on the universal journal entry. Cost and revenue information is always current and permanently reconciled with the income statement. This solution stores costs and revenues in G/L accounts and uses cost and revenue elements.

Note Note

Costing-based profitability analysis is still available, and you can use both types of profitability analysis in parallel. However, account-based profitability analysis is the default solution, which is a prerequisite for Simplified Profitability Analysis. With account-based profitability analysis, any revenue posting or cost of goods sold posting is updated under the relevant account and assigned to the correct market segment characteristics.

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In the SAP Help Portal for the SAP Simple Finance add-on 2.0 SPS00 for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, the structure for the documentation under Start of the navigation path Controlling (CO) Next navigation step Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) End of the navigation path has been changed to more clearly separate the account-based and costing-based approaches:

  • Simplified Profitability Analysis

    Describes the account-based solution, in which cost and revenue information is always current and is permanently reconciled with the income statement.

  • Costing-Based Profitability Analysis

    Describes the solution which groups costs and revenues according to value fields and which uses costing-based valuation approaches. It ensures access at all times to a complete, short-term profitability report.

Technical Details

Technical Name of Product Feature

SFIN_20_ACCOUNTING_ONE_COA

Product Feature Is

New

Country Dependency

Valid for all countries

Software Component Version

SAP_FIN 720

Application Component

CO-PA

Available as of

SAP Simple Finance add-on 2.0 SPS00 for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA

Effects on Customizing

To use Simplified Profitability Analysis, you need to carry out the following steps in Customizing:

  1. Enable your operating concerns for account-based profitability analysis under Start of the navigation path Controlling Next navigation step Profitability Analysis Next navigation step Structures Next navigation step Define Operating Concern Next navigation step Maintain Operating Concern End of the navigation path.

  2. Activate the data structures and generate the environment of your operating concern in the same transaction as above.

  3. Select Account-based profitability analysis when you activate the Profitability Analysis component under Start of the navigation path Controlling Next navigation step Profitability Analysis Next navigation step Flows of Actual Values Next navigation step Activate Profitability Analysis End of the navigation path.

More Information

See the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.comInformation published on SAP site Start of the navigation path SAP Business Suite Next navigation step SAP HANA Innovations for SAP Business Suite Next navigation step Products powered by SAP HANA Next navigation step SAP Simple Finance Add-On for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA Next navigation step Application Help Next navigation step SAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step SAP Simple Finance Add-On Next navigation step Controlling (CO) Next navigation step Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) End of the navigation path.