Accounting and financial close

Intelligent automation, assurance, and agility bring to life higher productivity for finance and accounting organizations.
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Record-to-report optimization leads to fast and trusted financials

With accounting, financial close, and reporting software from SAP, you can streamline finance and accounting processes– from closing and consolidation to management and legal reporting.

Automating manual processes for more efficiency

Reduce manual effort spent on generating accounting postings and financial consolidation and reporting with intelligent automation and recommendations, machine learning, and advanced analytics.

Making better decisions with more-reliable data

Help guide decision-making with full visibility, and auditability that builds trust in your financial and management reporting, strengthen financial compliance, and support multiple accounting standards.

Steering your business with continuous data-driven insight

Bring instant business insight with a single source of financial truth for management and statutory reporting and drill-down analysis from the highest to the lowest level of detail and the flexibility to evaluate different scenarios.

Explore accounting and financial close solutions from SAP

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Unified entity and group close reporting

Access a single source of truth for local operational and group-level data, and drill down from consolidated reports to transactional data.

Continuous accounting

Achieve real-time performance monitoring, identify and correct issues pre-close, and distribute workloads continuously and evenly over the accounting period.

Advanced group consolidation features

Collaborate across embedded intercompany reconciliation processes, and support inter- and intra-segment elimination with innovative reporting functionality.

SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting 
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Closing templates

Start with best-practice entity close content, then use sequencing and dependencies to fit your organization’s needs and reuse templates across multiple companies and cycles.

Closing automation

Increase the efficiency and speed of your close with automation routines, execute jobs across your landscape, and give your team intuitive, self-service access to closing transactions.

Monitoring and insights

Achieve real-time insight into your financial close process and help ensure the quality and governance of each close to meet regulatory disclosure mandates.

SAP Advanced Financial Closing 
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Single platform for reporting and transaction execution

Connect SAP ERP and third-party ERP source systems.

Adaptable rollout

Implement a phased rollout by organization, location, system, and process to reduce risk through a side-car deployment approach and phased onboarding of SAP S/4HANA.

Accelerated adoption and ROI

Leverage integrated integration capabilities and roll out the functionality you want, when you want, with a customized deployment.

SAP S/4HANA for central finance 
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Streamlined reconciliation

Accelerate financial closings by bridging complexities with automated integration of SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA.

Connected finance and accounting processes

Unify people, information, and technology and support continuous accounting and improvement.

Automation of labor-intensive financial close and compliance processes

Reduce or eliminate routine manual tasks and increase visibility and standardization with intelligent workflows that help accounting and finance teams focus on high-risk areas and support ongoing business strategies and policies.

SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine 
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Centralized intercompany processing

Enforce intercompany trading relationships and enable transaction creation, validation, workflows, and substantiation while initiating, approving, and booking transactions.

Intercompany reconciliation and settlements

Automate matching of intercompany transactions, create reconciliation items for unmatched dealings, and reduce transactions required for settlement between entities through bilateral netting.

Global view with transparency and control

Consolidate settlement balance information between entities into one location to gain the highest degree of data integrity and regulatory compliance and boost visibility into aggregated, bilaterally netted payables or receivables between entities.

SAP Intercompany Governance by BlackLine 
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Location and space management

Create and manage all types of real estate objects and get a centralized information source for your organization’s real estate portfolio.

Centralized business processes

Integrate asset management postings and reports, real estate controlling, and planning and controlling of new building developments, maintenance, and modernization projects.

Contract management

Manage all contracts related to your real estate portfolio, including lease-in, lease-out, customer, and vendor contracts.

SAP S/4HANA for contract, lease, and real estate management