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Using Accruals Management

SAP S/4HANA for Accruals Management is a tool you use to calculate, review,
and post accruals automatically. Contract-like data from Manual Accruals is
transferred to the (new) SAP S/4HANA Accrual Engine and, after it processes it,
the Accrual Engine performs the periodic postings. You work with the
application component Manual Accrual of the Accrual Engine, not the engine
itself, much like you operate the engine of a car indirectly.

With the application component Purchase Order Accruals, it is possible to

automatically calculate and post purchase order accruals. You can also,
optionally, implement a review and approval process for the monthly accrual
amounts.

Accruals Process Overview with Intelligent ERP

The SAP S/4HANA Accrual Engine is optimized for SAP S/4HANA:

It is fully integrated into the General Ledger.

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All currencies of General Ledger are supported.

The Accrual Engine postings are stored only as line items of the
universal journal entry, in table ACDOCA.

The fiscal year variant of the G/L ledgers are supported.

Standard FI reversal, for example, using transaction FB08 or F.80 is

supported.

It enables complex postings; more than two line items are possible by
customer-defined of posting schemas.

Manual Accruals Process

Manual Accruals Process Outline

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There are two basic processes for Manual Accruals you perform when using the
accrual engine:

Maintain basis data: The contract-like master data is stored as basis data
(accrual objects) in the accrual engine. The basis data contains all relevant
information that is necessary for making the accrual postings. The basis
data is time-dependent.

Periodic start of the accrual run: Accrual objects are selected. The Accrual
Engine evaluates the postings in the Universal Journal (ACDOCA). In table
ACDOCA all information is stored that the Accrual Engine needs to
determine which amounts have already been posted for an accrual item. The
accruals postings are stored only in the regular FI documents, including the
ACDOCA.

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