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Here is the Bank Hierarchy view for banks and bank accounts. All bank
accounts are managed centrally in this hierarchy. You can easily find a bank
account and maintain the bank account master data.
We also provide Account List view and House Bank Account List view for bank
account management.

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In the Account List view, sorting, grouping, and filtering functions are available
for you to display bank accounts according to your needs. In this screenshot,
bank accounts are grouped by bank name.

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This is what the new bank account master data looks like.
The UI fields on the screen can be controlled by Customizing activity Manage
Field Status Groups or by the BAdI (FCLM_BAM_FIELDS_CTRL).

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The payment signatories defined here can be used in BCM payment
approval, which is used to replace the complex release strategy in BCM.
After the integration BTEs with BCM is activated, the payment signatories
logic defined in BAM is activated with BCM payment approval. For
automatic approval process for small payments, the rules define in BCM
are still used. If a payment exceeds the defined maximum limits of all
available signatories, BCM exception handling process is used.
With the payment signatories in Bank Account Management, the following
functions are available for use:
1. Different bank accounts can be assigned with different signatories and
payment approval processes even in a same company.
For example, you can define different signatories and payment
approval processes respectively for salary accounts and operational
accounts.
2. It is supported to define single signature (1 signatory) scenario and
joint signature (more than 1 signatory) scenario for one bank
account.
Russia customers may have more than two joint signature scenarios.

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 3. Signatories can be grouped into different business groups and assigned with
different conditions for making payment approvals.
 For example, you can define the following approval processes:
 Payments made on salary accounts need to be approved by at least 1 person from
the HR group and 1 person from the Treasury group.
 Payments made on the operational accounts need to be approved by at least 1 person
from the Financial group and 1 person from Treasury group.
 For different signatory groups involved in an approval process, you can define the
sequence of each group or define it as non-sequential approval process.
 4. In one signatory group there can be more than one signatory to approve a same
payment in a bank account.
 For example, for payment on investment accounts, it is necessary that at least 2
signatories from the Treasury group to approve it. If one of the eligible signatory has
processed the request, he or she would not receive the request again.
 5. In a same signatory group, different signatories can be assigned with different
approval limits and only eligible signatories can receive the approval requests within
their limits.
 In case a signatory is in off sick, other people can help process the payment requests.
 6. Valid periods for signatories
 If a signatory is going to leave his/her current position and a new signatory is going to
take over the task, it is possible to set the ‘Valid To’ date of the old signatory as
his/her last day in the position and set the ‘Valid From’ date of the new signatory as
the starting date of the new signatory. The approval process will check the validity
periods to pick up only the eligible signatories at a certain time point.

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Bank Account Management allows you to use approval workflows for opening,
closing, reopening, modifying, and reviewing bank accounts. You can define if
the workflow is active or not. You can also define sensitive fields that you want
to protect from changes using dual control. For example, you can define that
bank account descriptions can be changed without approval, but changes on
currency and bank account type must be approved.

In the approval process, you can also check the existing bank accounts for
reference and assign house bank accounts.

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In the change request for of bank accounts, you can use the change history to
check the changes made in the past.

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During the approval process, you can check existing bank accounts for related
company code and bank, as a reference.

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The change request can be submitted without bank account number and bank
assignment. The bank account number, bank or other key attributes can be
completed in the process when financial clerk opens the real account in bank.

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House bank accounts are still used for payments. For each bank account in
Bank Account Management, house bank accounts should be assigned (one
house bank account for each currency of the bank account). House bank
account assignment is required in the standard workflow process for opening a
new bank account. In some companies, the IT department does not want to be
involved in the workflow process. Therefore, to skip this step, customers can
develop their own workflow process by making change to the standard
workflow templates.

Also, side-by-side setup is supported. With the connectivity path, you can
define the following types of linkages:
1. One or more house bank accounts in the central system
2. G/L account in the central system
3. House bank account in remote SAP system
4. G/L account in remote SAP system
5. Others

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With this function, you can do the following:
1. Add Signatory: Add a new signatory to multiple bank accounts.
2. Change Signatory: Replace an existing signatory with anther signatory in
multiple bank accounts.
3. Revoke authorization: Revoke the authorization of one signatory in multiple
bank accounts by editing its validity period.

Note:
The approve process will be triggered if the workflow process is enabled and
the signatory fields are defined as sensitive fields.

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Cash manager triggers the bank accounts review process. The review request
will be sent to the contact person maintained in the bank account master data
(field General Contact).

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In the Monitor Review Process app, you can easily monitor the review status by
checking the completion rates:

1. The first rate shows the percentage of reviewed bank accounts in all
requests.
2. The second rate shows the percentage of reviewed bank accounts in
completed requests.

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Known limitations of now:
Although cash pools can be created/edited at any time, once a cash pool has
been created based on a bank account group, future changes to bank account
group (like adding/removing bank accounts) won’t impact the cash pool
creation/modification/concentration.

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List of Employees who have signature authority over the foreign bank accounts

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Previously reopening closed bank account is not supported. However,
sometimes the end users closed the bank account by mistake and they need a
way to reopen the account, and the process should be integrated in the
workflow as well.

Now you can use the app Manage Bank Accounts to reopen the closed bank
accounts and use workflow to control the process.

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