SAP Group Reporting Training (Financial Consolidation)
SAP Group Reporting training teaches you to run statutory and management consolidation inside S/4HANA rather than in a separate consolidation tool.
- 40 hours
- Intermediate
- Live online
What is SAP Group Reporting Training (Financial Consolidation)?
SAP Group Reporting training teaches you to run statutory and management consolidation inside S/4HANA rather than in a separate consolidation tool. You cover consolidation groups and units, the consolidation chart of accounts and financial statement versions, data collection from the Universal Journal and from external entities, validation rules, currency translation, intercompany matching and elimination, investment consolidation with the equity method and purchase accounting, non-controlling interests, consolidated cash flow, and disclosure reporting in Analytics Cloud.
What you get
- Explain statutory and management consolidation requirements
- Configure consolidation units, groups and the group chart of accounts
- Collect data from S/4HANA and external entities with validation
- Configure and analyse currency translation
Who this course is for
New to the field
- Group accountants moving into SAP
- FI consultants adding consolidation
- Finance staff replacing spreadsheet consolidation
Working professionals
- Consultants on an S/4HANA finance programme
- Teams migrating from BPC or BCS
- Anyone owning statutory consolidation
Prerequisites
- Solid SAP FI knowledge and an accounting background.
- Consolidation or group reporting experience is a strong advantage.
What you will be able to do
- Explain statutory and management consolidation requirements
- Configure consolidation units, groups and the group chart of accounts
- Collect data from S/4HANA and external entities with validation
- Configure and analyse currency translation
- Run intercompany matching and elimination
- Perform investment consolidation with equity method and goodwill
- Produce consolidated statements and disclosure reporting
Salary range
- India
- 11-32 LPA
- United States
- 125k-175k
Market ranges for SAP Group Reporting Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.
Curriculum
Consolidation foundations
Understand the accounting requirement before the configuration.
- Why groups consolidate and what standards require
- Statutory versus management consolidation
- Group Reporting versus BPC and legacy BCS
- Group Reporting in S/4HANA architecture
- Consolidation versus Central Finance
- Release strategy and deployment options
- Key apps and the consolidation cockpit
- Scoping a consolidation implementation
Master data and structures
Define the group, its units and its accounts.
- Consolidation units and their attributes
- Consolidation groups and hierarchies
- Consolidation chart of accounts
- Mapping local accounts to group accounts
- Financial statement item hierarchies
- Subitems and subitem categories
- Version concept: actual, plan, simulation
- Fiscal year variants and periods
Data collection and validation
Get complete, trustworthy data in.
- Release of Universal Journal data
- Flexible upload for external entities
- Data monitor and its tasks
- Validation rules and their design
- Balance carryforward
- Reported financial data review
- Journal entries at group level
- Reconciling collected data to source
Currency translation
Translate correctly and explain the difference.
- Currency translation methods
- Translation keys and rate types
- Historical rates and equity translation
- Currency translation adjustment
- Translation of cash flow items
- Multiple group currencies
- Rate maintenance and governance
- Analysing translation differences
Intercompany elimination and matching
Remove internal transactions defensibly.
- Intercompany matching and reconciliation
- Matching rules and tolerance
- Elimination of payables and receivables
- Elimination of revenue and cost of sales
- Unrealised profit in inventory
- Two-sided elimination logic
- Elimination differences and their treatment
- Chasing units to resolve mismatches
Investment consolidation
Handle ownership properly, including the hard cases.
- Consolidation methods: purchase, equity, proportionate
- Investment and equity data collection
- First consolidation and goodwill
- Subsequent consolidation
- Non-controlling interests
- Step acquisition and divestiture
- Changes in ownership percentage
- Group changes and their consolidation impact
Reporting, close and operations
Publish the group numbers and shorten the close.
- Consolidated balance sheet and income statement
- Consolidated statement of cash flows
- Group reporting analytical apps
- Disclosure reporting with Analytics Cloud
- Consolidation monitor and task status
- Close calendar and task automation
- Audit trail and evidence
- Common consolidation failures and fixes
Projects you will build
Group structure and data collection
Configure consolidation units and groups with a group chart of accounts, release S/4HANA data, upload an external entity and pass validation.
Translation and elimination
Configure currency translation for a foreign subsidiary, then run intercompany matching and elimination and explain the residual difference.
Investment consolidation and reporting
Perform a first consolidation with goodwill and non-controlling interests, then produce consolidated statements including cash flow.
Tools you will use
- Consolidation master data apps
- Units, groups, hierarchies and the group chart of accounts.
- Data monitor
- Collection, carryforward and validation task management.
- Consolidation monitor
- Translation, elimination and consolidation task execution.
- Intercompany matching and reconciliation
- Matching rules and mismatch resolution across units.
- Group reporting analytics
- Consolidated statements and drilldown to source.
- Analytics Cloud disclosure
- Formatted disclosure and management reporting on group data.
Certification
- Exam
- Group Reporting is examined within SAP's S/4HANA Finance credentials rather than a dedicated associate exam. We prepare you against SAP's Group Reporting learning content and map the course to C_TS4FI_2023 (Financial Accounting) as the nearest credential.
What learners say
Investment consolidation with goodwill and NCI is where every course stops short. Doing a first consolidation properly is what got me hired.
We are moving off BPC. The comparison of approaches and the honest discussion of what Group Reporting does not do yet was invaluable.
Currency translation adjustment finally makes sense to me as an accountant, not just as a configuration step.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.
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₹49,000
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₹9,000
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What a day looks like
- Close calendar
- Consolidation is calendar driven, so the job is task status and chasing late units.
- Validation failures
- Data that will not pass validation, usually a mapping gap or an incomplete local close.
- Elimination differences
- Intercompany mismatches, which are almost always a business process problem, not a system one.
- Translation queries
- Explaining a currency translation adjustment to group finance in accounting language.
- Reporting requests
- Late changes to disclosure or management views, needed before the board pack.
Training a team?
We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.
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