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1. SAP Central Finance is a platform for SAP S/4HANA Finance that harmonizes data from multiple systems into a central finance system for consolidated financial reporting. 2. Central Finance supports both on-premise and cloud deployments, uses the SLT and SAP AIF for error handling and monitoring. 3. It aims to standardize data and reduce month-end and year-end reporting cycle times, but is limited to only finance transactions and some restrictions are documented in SAP notes.

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Central Finance

1. SAP Central Finance is a platform for SAP S/4HANA Finance that harmonizes data from multiple systems into a central finance system for consolidated financial reporting. 2. Central Finance supports both on-premise and cloud deployments, uses the SLT and SAP AIF for error handling and monitoring. 3. It aims to standardize data and reduce month-end and year-end reporting cycle times, but is limited to only finance transactions and some restrictions are documented in SAP notes.

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Key Areas of Innovation in SAP S/4HANA Finance

SAP Central Finance


SAP Central Finance is a deployment option or a platform for SAP S/4HANA
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Finance to harmonize data from multiple SAP and non-SAP systems into Central

Finance platform updating the Universal Journal table “ACDOCA” to deliver

consolidated financial reporting

A central system for collecting accounting data as a single source of truth for
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group reporting, both for statutory and managerial purposes


Key Areas of Innovation in SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP Central Finance
Central Finan. feature supports both on-premise & cloud deployments
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The use of the SLT is mandatory in Central Finance


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Key Areas of Innovation in SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP Central Finance
Central Finan. feature supports both on-premise & cloud deployments
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The use of the SLT is mandatory in Central Finance


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Utilises SAP AIF for error handling, monitoring and reprocessing


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Central Finan. has resolved the effort to standardize and harmonize the data to
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produce Consolidated Statutory Reporting

To reduce month-end & year-end reporting cycle times


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Key Areas of Innovation in SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP Central Finance SAP Financial
Closing Cockpit
Treasury and
Risk Management Central Planning

Central
Central R2R
Open Item
(Local & Group Reporting)
Management
SAP
Central
Central Finance Intercompany
Bank Account Reconciliation
Management

Central Cash Central Payment


Operations
Receivables
Management
Key Areas of Innovation in SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP Central Finance - Limitations
Only Finance transactions and transactions with GL Impact are transferred from
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Source systems to Central Finan. and not non-financial transactions such as Sales

Orders, Purchase Orders, Material Documents etc.

Special GL transactions such as down payment etc. in SAP ECC are not replicated
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to Central Finance and there are also some restrictions in tax reporting

All restrictions are documented in SAP notes


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Key Areas of Innovation in SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP Central Finance – Alternative solution for Limitations
If any of the financial reporting requirement cannot be delivered from the SAP
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S/4HANA Central Finance, then SAP BW on HANA or SAP BW S/4HANA should be

considered as a component part of the CFIN - Central Finance Platform

SAP BW,
SAP ERP
SAP BusinessObjects
Central Reporting
BI

SAP HANA Platform


Key Areas of Innovation in SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP Central Finance – Alternative solution for Limitations
If the financial planning requirements cannot be executed in SAP S/4HANA BW due
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to non- fin. information which is in the target systems but cannot be replicated

to Central Finance, then a standalone SAP BPC solution may be required

SAP BW,
SAP ERP
SAP BusinessObjects SAP BPC
Central Reporting
BI

SAP HANA Platform

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