SAP FICO Controlling Conference 2023 Highlights

Here's an overview of the SAP Controlling Financials Conference 2023 Sessions

Pre Conference Sessions - Sunday, September 17th 

Introduction to Controlling in S/4HANA

By Marjorie Wright

In this pre-conference workshop session Marjorie explained the changes in controlling master data and processes with S/4HANA. All attendees enjoyed this session, with many questions for Margie about new features in SAP S/4HANA. 

We learned about the importance of the Universal Journal, and how cost elements are integrated with general ledger accounts.
Some examples of the many questions for Margie include:

• Do we really need to use SAP Material Ledger 
• Is costing-based CO-PA  still relevant
• Please compare SAP S/4HANA Profitability Analysis with Margin Analysis

Learn more about Marjorie Wright

Reserve your place now for a webinar on SAP S/4HANA Finance – From Batch to Real-Time presented by Janet Salmon and Birgit Oettinger, SAP SE.

June 29 at 9:00 AM PST/12:00 PM EST

Why do I need to activate Profit Centers in SAP S/4 1709?

By John Pringle

We recently upgraded a test system from S/4 1610 to S/4 1709 and one of the interesting things that we found was that SAP recommends that the switch for activating profit center accounting (PCA) should be activated. This was a surprise because I found no mention of this in the Simplification document for 1709 or in on-line searches.

Since release ECC 5.0 clients using the new general ledger with the profit center or segment scenarios active were warned against activation of classic PCA. With the new GL scenarios profit center functionality was incorporated in the GL and the old profit center ledger 8A was not activated. In this case the classic reports in the information system for PCA would not return any results if they were executed.