Accelerated Financial Closing with SAP

by Birgit Starmanns

Navigate the complex financial close process and learn how to address regulatory requirements, manage disclosure management, and report results to key stakeholders. Written for business process owners, finance directors, and managers, this book will teach you how to optimize the financial close process within your organization. Develop a single financial close workflow with this end-to-end overview and close your books faster!
* Close from financial accounting to corporate entity and closing
* SAP financial integration of FI, CO, and Disclosure Management
* Workflow, regulatory, and reporting requirements
A Financial Close Action Plan
Learn how to build a business case, create a clear action plan for your financial close process, and avoid common barriers. Real Time Visibility
Visualize your financial close success and identify issues with real-time analysis and the Financial Closing cockpit. Reporting
Proactively address disclosure management and weather regulatory change with finesse and flexibility. * General Ledger close
* Controlling close
* Inventory management
* Intercompany reconcilliation
* Process governance
* Financial consolidation
* Disclosure management
* Financial reporting
* Entity close management

296 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2013