Accounting and Financial Close

Achieve a faster, more compliant financial close and streamline accounting processes

Close the books quickly and accurately – and simplify financial reconciliation – with accounting and financial close software from SAP. Our solutions can help you consolidate financial accounting data, no matter how disparate, and gain a single source of financial truth. Get real-time insight into your financial close process, drill into details to quickly resolve delays – and create statements and disclosures that comply with financial reporting standards such as IFRS, U.S. GAAP, and others.

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Solution Capabilities

Accounting

Deliver faster, more compliant financial reports with real-time accounting support

Accelerate compliant financial reporting with automated accounting capabilities, harmonized data – and support for multiple financial reporting standards, industries, currencies, and languages.

Automatically record and valuate business activities from different modules or systems
Help ensure complete data across the general ledger, sub-ledgers, and logistics
Use self-service analytics on highly granular data to support rock-solid decision making

Entity Close

Enable stronger governance and faster execution in your entity financial close

Boost the compliance and speed of your entity financial closes – with software that supports fast, efficient peer-to-peer reconciliation of intercompany balances and invoices between subsidiaries.

Leverage real-time identification of mismatches, error correction, and status updates – within financial documents
Plan, execute, and monitor closing activities across multiple entities and cycles
Share best practices and improve overall governance and efficiency

Corporate Close

Increase the reliability, transparency, and speed of financial consolidation reporting

Combine legal and management consolidation and reporting capabilities in one tool – to get one version of the truth that accelerates your corporate close, cuts costs, and prevents the merger of multiple reports.

Support various currencies and global reporting standards
Automate the close process to reduce common errors
Analyze information in record time

Reporting and Disclosure

Streamline regulatory filings and disclosures

Automate and simplify processes for your external and internal disclosures – and use robust business intelligence capabilities to support fast, fact-based decision making.

Get visibility into the KPIs driving your business
Analyze and share data from multiple sources
Create XBRL-based financial statements
Use preconfigured kits to accelerate legal compliance
Lower risk, reduce errors, and increase accountability

Financial Close Governance

Ensure a high-quality, compliant financial close

Create, update, and monitor financial master data in one system – and distribute changes anywhere – to accelerate the financial close process.

Strengthen and document internal controls
Streamline testing and assessments
Perform timely remediation
Generate accurate reports that comply with multiple regulations