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In addition to a legacy consolidation solution such as ECCS, as on date, you will find below SAP’s consolidation solutions. Few of these solutions are based on a BW framework while few are based on S/4 HANA. What would be the right solution? Which solution to adopt?

The choice of solutions are based on many technical and business considerations for an existing customers, while for a new customer is always based on future strategy and roadmap of SAP. Refer to OSS note. This OSS note provides SAP’s future roadmap and product strategies.

Consolidation Solutions

2866878 - Product strategy for consolidation / corporate close / group reporting

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CONFIGURING GROUP REPORTING WITH S/4 HANA 1909

With S/4 HANA Finance 1809, SAP has introduced group reporting, a SAP’s consolidation solution. Group reporting’s innovations expose the new consolidation solution, which is a hybrid of SAP’s EC-CS, BCS and BPC functionalities. You’ve heard about Universal Journal, single source of truth, real-time processes, and UI improvements, in group reporting, you can leverage all these functionalities without additional acquisition of the software cost. SAP group reporting facilitates continuous accounting and consolidation process in a single instance, thus reduces the financial closing manhours. With the tight integration of ACDOCA table and flexible upload functionalities help smooth transition of consolidation unit’s local data to consolidation data for financial consolidation. With the S/4 HANA 1909 release, SAP enhanced group reporting functionalities with new fire tiles. Configuring Group Reporting with S/4 HANA 1909 covers end to end solution with one complete consolidation of financial statements of integrated and non-integrated units.

Highlights of Configuring Group Reporting with S/4 HANA 1909:

Consolidation chart of account
Integration of consolidation units and consolidation group
Local and global accounting
Currency translation
Interunit / intercompany eliminations
Reclassification
Elimination and adjustment of intercompany investment
Calculation of goodwill
Calculation of minority interest.
Cash flow statement, statement of equity, statement of comprehensive income, consolidation of balance sheet and income statement
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CONFIGURING GROUP REPORTING WITH S/4 HANA 1909