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BO - 08 - LC9 - V4 Financial Close Updated 2022
BO - 08 - LC9 - V4 Financial Close Updated 2022
Financial Close
January 2022
Version History
Version Date Full Name Editor Description Token (Change ID)
1.0 08/06/19 Savitha L Gunjur Original Document N/A
2.0 12/06/20 Samuel Golin Update YEC processes - Lessons 2 & 3 completely reworked (sl 11-44) N/A
3.0 30/12/20 Samuel Golin Lessons 4 created for country specific requirements (sl 45-100) P1FR / RO / HU / BG
4.0 01/02/21 Vitor Sousa (AMS) Enhancement Page 40 (Close/Opening Postings at Year End) and sl 35
(Miguel)
4.0 02/02/22 Samuel Golin T.Types (17-18) / Update 35 / New 36-37 / P1-CH (49-51) / P1-FR (52-61) Global / P1CH / P1FR
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• Welcome:
• Lesson 1: Overview
• Lesson 2: Local Period-End Closing
• Lesson 3: Year-End Closing procedures
• Lesson 4: Country Specific Functions P1 FR / RO / HU / BG
• Lesson 5: Closing Cockpit - P1 PT
• Lesson 6: Module Summary
• The Period-End closing process covers all activities to deliver Period-End reporting packages for:
• Statutory and management reporting
• Mandatory statutory declarations
• The Period-End closing process is interdependent on other processes in SAP, and to follow the right sequence across all
relevant modules, ledgers and interfaces.
• The Period-End closing is mainly divided in two parts, month-end closing and year-end closing.
• The closing processes enable an effective cut-off that is necessary to freeze transaction processing-related activities in a
given period and provide a framework for reliable financial and non-financial evaluations.
• Period-End Closing
- Local Period-End closing will include SAP Financial Closing
Cockpit for managing closing. (PT Central Team)
• The Month-End Closing process at CIL includes inputs from SAP operational processes such as Procurement, Production,
Sales and from FO systems (Trading One, Sharp, EKA, K3), Treasury which sends information to SAP S/4 HANA.
• Several tasks – such as tax adjustments, reconciliations, manual journals, sub ledgers close and fixed assets depreciation
– are performed by the Financial Accounting team during the closing process in SAP.
• Some other tasks, such as cost allocation, are performed by the Controlling team.
• The closing processes are performed in order to prepare and publish the financial statements and other reports from both
legal and group perspective (including all reporting packages to BPC).
• As part of the year-end closing process, parallel ledger adjustments are performed by creating an accounting document.
• For controlling and monitoring the complexity of all required closing activities – regional (time zones), technical (FO-interfaces)
and functional (different GAAPs) - in the right sequence, CIL plans to use the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit (as a central activity
manage by PT). It enables a better quality and in-time delivery of all required reports and declarations to the appropriate
authorities according to the specific GAAP, regulation, and audit compliance requirements.
Verify next posting period for FI OB52 IBM - Batch Job This Course
Verify next posting period for MM MMPV IBM - Batch Job This Course
Verify AIF log to ensure nothing stuck/un-processed between FO and SAP /AIF/ERR Accounting BO_02_LC9-AP / BO_03_LC9-AR / AIF
Volume Control - Deferred Revenue SAP => FO FBL3H/FAGLL03H Accounting BO_01_LC9-General Ledger
Bank Reconciliation completed for all banks FEBAN Accounting BO_09_LC9-Bank Management & TR
Financial Month end Postings ZBO_JOURNAL_UPLOAD Accounting BO_01_LC9-General Ledger
Close posting period for AP and AR OB52 Accounting This Course
Post Forex MtM
Post Future & Options Realised
Post Future & Options Unrealised
Post Payroll
Post non-trade accruals
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Posting Period End Closing
Local Period-End-Closing
• Posting periods are defined in the fiscal year variants assigned to company codes. SAP provides the option to open and close
these posting periods for posting.
• Usually, only the current posting period is open for posting, all other posting periods are closed. At the end of this posting period,
the period is closed, and the next posting period is opened. The authorization for opening/closing posting period would reside
with a selected few. It is also possible to open/close period for selected General Ledger, Vendor, Customer or Asset accounts.
• Special periods will be open for closing postings during year-end closing.
• There are two times intervals, Time Period 1 and Time Period 2. In each interval, a period limit and the fiscal year are specified.
• A period can be closed by selecting the period specifications. Authorization groups can also be assigned for
permitted posting periods. This means that during a month-end or year-end closing, some posting periods can be opened for
specific users only (Accountants). The authorization group has an effect only on Time Period 1.
• Month-End Closing tasks-Step2: Assets, Cost Objects and GL Adjusts and Forex Revaluation.
• Projects/WBS Element and AuC settlement execution to run the Depreciation.
• parallel ledger adjustments are performed by creating an accounting document (Local GAAPs)
• Execute the foreign currency revaluation for each Ledger and account type,
• Cost center and Profit center allocation, reclassification, distribution process can be performed,
• Close the posting period GL, AA, and Material accounts.
• The following specifications are made in the valuation method for foreign currency valuation:
• The valuation procedure to be used
• Lowest value principle
• Strict lowest value principle
• Always valuate
• Revalue only
• Reset
• How the exchange rate differences determined should be posted, for example, which document type
should be used
• The basis on which the exchange rate should be determined, for example, which exchange rate
type should be used
• Valuation area to determine the accounting
principle to be valuated (e.g., IFRS or local GAAP)
• Enter Parameters
• The selection parameters for the items to be valuated are defined along with the posting details for valuation adjustment
documents and its subsequent automatic reversal, on the first day of the next month.
G/L Account Line Item Browser Report Ledger Comparison Report Financial Statement Report
• Legal entities in SAP, are a part of Period-End closing activities. After all the pre-requisite closing tasks are completed
and closed, the disclosures are sent to the consolidation system for corporate group reporting.
• Transmission of reporting packages from legal entities to BPC are classified into three categories:
• Consolidated Group Reporting are generated from BPC, based on the data uploaded from S/4 HANA after period-close.
• Transaction Types
• Transaction types are a method of further coding GL postings so that the information can be automatically loaded into BPC
• Transaction Types are currently used for Asset Transactions and the Nesta interface
• Country Specific
• Ukraine has a different Procurement/Asset Accounting solution. This requires Transaction Types to be added manually for
consolidation to BPC
• Transaction Types
• Transaction types will be extended to other postings
• The purpose is to automate the creation of BPC schedules
• Postings will be made via upload journals
• Relevant Scenarios
• Transaction types will be used for postings involving
• Investment Properties, • ECL on accounts receivables,
• Provisions,
• Financial Investments,
• Lease liabilities,
• Long Term Receivables, • Equity,
• Deferred Tax Assets, • Right of use (IFRS 16),
• Impairment losses on inventories, • Corporate income tax
Postings related to Asset Accounting will be automatically G/L postings must consider the Transaction Types field, either
updated, depending on the processes that´s being executed by standard SAP manual transactions or via excel file upload
• The year-end closing from a General Ledger perspective some process steps, which need to be executed in additional to the
normal month end closing activities.
• This is based on the company-specific financial calendar to control and monitor the interdependent steps across all relevant
modules, ledgers and interfaces and prepare the system and financial accounting for the new fiscal year.
Maintain FI document number range FBN1 IBM - Batch Job N/A-Technical Team
Close Asset Fiscal year AJAB Accounting This Course
Carry Forward G/L balance & Review Retained earning account FAGLGVTR Accounting This Course
Year End - P&L Postings ZBO_YEC_POST Accounting This Course
CAPEX Project & Budget Carryfoward CJCF / CJCO Controlling This Course
Check total balance of the P&L accounts and Year End - balance reporting FAGLL03H / FAGLB03 Accounting BO_01_LC9-General Ledger
Reporting (Final Balance Sheet) F.01 / S_ALR_87012284 Accounting BO_01_LC9-General Ledger
Reporting Ledger Comparison S_EB5_05000741 Accounting BO_11_LC9-Direct Tax
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Asset Year end Closing
Year-End Closing procedures
• At COFCO International, as part of Fiscal Year change process, the asset values from previous Fiscal Years
are carried forward cumulatively to the new Fiscal Year. After the Fiscal Year change, you can start posting to
assets using value dates in the new Fiscal Year. Also posting in the previous Fiscal Year can be continued in
parallel. There is no separate balance carry forward needed in asset accounting, the general Ledger balance
carry forward transaction of FI, helps transfer the asset accounting balance by default.
• The most current planned depreciation values are calculated automatically for the New Year after performing
the balance carry forward.
CJCF: Carry forward the Commitment The system will show the list of projects are being transferred
1. Select the project (or Project range) to the next fiscal year, along with the PR and PO numbers
• All GL cost/revenue accounts must have the year balance brought to zero to start the next year, as part of a Global COFCO
procedure.
• The balance is posted to a P&L account through a customized SAP program, which identifies the values of these GL
accounts by cost center, and automatically executes all the postings.
• The posting must be made for both Ledgers (0L and LG), within a special period (16), and using a specific document
type (M4) for easy identification of these posting using SAP Standard reports.
• Following these rules, it will be possible to view the Financial Statement with the correct GL account balances, at the
end of the year (period 01 to 12), as well as the balance sheet with the GL cost/revenue accounts balances zeroed in
the special period (16).
• Step3. Total Balance in P&L closing accounts are posted to Retained earnings account: 3129100000 - Equity - Retained earnings
Db/Cr: 3129100000
Db/Cr: 3900000000 (or the final balance posted in both GL Accounts 3900000000 & 3900000001
To Run this step, preferably use the transaction ZBO_JOURNAL_UPLOAD or FB01 (FB01L specific Ledger)
• Use Group or Functional currency to post this accounting document. (it must be decided by each legal entity).
Make sure that the balance of the account 3900000000 is zero after execution.
• When the actual execution is performed (without the test option selected on the initial
screen), clicking on the button Display Log of the menu bar, it´s possible to view all GL
account documents posted by the transaction.
The total amount is shown in local currency (if it´s not equal to
USD, this currency will only appear by checking the SAP Reports
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System Demo – Checking Year End Postings - Reporting
Year-End Closing procedures
• The report FAGLL03H - G/L Line Items Browser (G/L View) is used to check
whether the total balance of the P&L accounts interval is zero, after the execution of
ZBO_YEC_POST.
• The field Type “Select Closing/Opening Postings at Year End” needs to be selected
Now that you have completed this lesson, you should be able to:
‒ Identify the process to be followed for the month-end closing
‒ List the implementation considerations of Period-End closing
‒ Identify the aspects of goods receipt (GR) / invoice receipt (IR) clearing
‒ Examine the uses of foreign currency revaluation
‒ Explain the vendor and customer reconciliation accounts
‒ Recognize the stages involved in the year-end closing
‒ Recall how to collect report packages
• Month-End Closing Local tasks-Step4: Reporting transactions for Country specific processes and local requirements.
Task Description SAP Transaction Code Responsibility Country Specific Course Material Reference
Translation Balances to Local Currency for CH Statutory Req ZBOTRANSLOCLDGR Accounting CRSA This Course
Reporting - France FEC Statutory Reporting File FAGL_FR_03 / FTWP/ FTW1A / FTW1 Accounting France This Course
Account Card for Misc Operations /CEECV/ROFI01 Accounting Romania This Course
General Ledger with Corresp. Accs - Carte Mare /CEECV/ROFI02 Accounting Romania This Course
Month-End Postings for EHP4 /CEECV/ROFI03 Accounting Romania This Course
Cash Journal /CEECV/ROFI06 Accounting Romania This Course
Document Journal /CEECV/ROFI14 Accounting Romania This Course
Inventory Register - Romania /CEECV/ROFI13 Accounting Romania This Course
Trial Balance at profit center level /CEECV/ROFI16 Accounting Romania This Course
Advance Return for Tax on Sales/Purchases /CEECV/ROFI10 Accounting Romania This Course
Advance Return for VAT - print (XML) /CEECV/ROFI11_XML Accounting Romania This Course
VIES-RO 390: VAT Identif. Ex. (XML) /CEECV/ROFI_VIES_XML Accounting Romania This Course
VIES-RO 394: VAT Identif. Exchange /CEECV/ROFI_VIES394 Accounting Romania This Course
Add List of Open Item Invoices for VAT return S_P00_07000189 Accounting Hungary This Course
Advance Return for Tax on Sales/Purchases S_ALR_87009895 Accounting Hungary This Course
Payment Medium International - DME File download S_ALR_87012401 Accounting Hungary This Course
Domestic Sales and Purchases List for Hungary RFHUDSP / CG3Y Accounting Hungary This Course
EU Sales and Purchases List for Hungary RFEULIST Accounting Hungary This Course
Value-added Tax Return (Bulgaria) /CEECV/BGFI_VAT Accounting Bulgaria This Course
VIES BG: VAT Identification Exchange /N/BGLOCS/FI_VIES Accounting Bulgaria This Course
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Year-End Closing Report - CRSA
Period-End-Closing - Country Specifics P1 CH
• Year end closing procedure is setup to support CRSA statutory requirements translating balances to Local Currency:
• Supplementary transactions:
• OB08 - Currency Exchange Rates
• SM30 - ZBO_GLACC_MAP table - GL acc mapping for displaying translational difference
ZBOTRANSLOCLDGR - Translation of Balances to Local Currency Use your variant screens previously created
When executing the report, the system will show the values in Local and Functional currencies, as well as the values to be
translated already calculated as per GL Accounts
Download to Excel:
Right click on any
row » Spreadsheet
• VAT reports and Month end closing procedures are setup to support France local requirements:
All the necessary steps must be followed in order to generate and extract the correct FEC Statutory Report
1st step: Opening Posting France - Run Program RFOPENPOSTING_FR (by Tcode SE38) or Tcode FAGL_FR_03
2nd step: Congealing of data in DART - Settings for data extraction with Tcode FTWP
2nd step: Data extraction FTW1A – Data Retention Tool: Extract Data
1. Enter FTW1A in the Command field.
2. Populate the following General fields:
1. Company Code
2. Fiscal Year
3. Posting Period
4. Ledger (Local Ledger LG)
5. Language Key.
3. Select all the Transaction Data.
4. Select the button “Select transaction dependent”
5. Populate the following Data File fields:
1. Data File Name
2. Directory Set
3. Description
4. Select Compress data and Calculate data checksums
6. Execute
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FEC Statutory Reporting File - FR
Period-End-Closing - Country Specifics
P1 FR
Data Retention Tool: Extract Data - Check the result of the execution Log and the file creation
3rd step: Generate FEC FTWY – Data File View: DART: FI New G/L
Transaction Data for FEC
1. Enter FTWY in the Command field.
2. Populate the following fields:
1. Data View: <2FR_FI01> on the Initial Screen
2. Execute
3. Populate the following fields of file selection nscreen:
1. Source Extract:
2. Directory Set:
3. Company Code:
4. Data File Name:
5. Directory Set:
6. Description:
7. Check radio Button: French File Format
8. Output Options: Display/Print Execute
4. Execute
Data File View: DART - Check the content of file generated to be downloaded
Download FEC File generated in S/4 - through the Fiori App Global S4 File Download
1. Access the Fiori Launchpad > Select the app “Global S4 File Download”
2. On the headerof the app select the directory,or directly select “Go”
3. On theDirectory Selectthearrow“>”
4. Select the file that you want to download, and press “Download”
• VAT reports and Month end closing procedures are setup to support RO local requirements:
• This section will explore the following legal reports:
• Month end Closing reports:
• VAT reports:
Check the period end closing postings, which will bring all the P&L Accounts to zero amount:
Check the document journal report at line items level in the correct format columns
• VAT reports and Month end closing procedures are setup to support HU local requirements:
Check the list of open items invoices relevant for VAT return :
• VAT reports and Month end closing procedures are setup to support BG local requirements:
• SAP S/4HANA Financial Closing Cockpit supports in planning, executing, monitoring, and analyzing financial closing tasks
for the entities of corporate groups.
• CIL needs to run Closing Cockpit for Period-End closing, based on a plan which helps in understanding the existing closing
process from start to end.
• This involves:
• Tasks to be performed
• The order of performing the tasks
• Who owns the task
• Who executes the task
• Who reviews and approves the results after the task has been completed
• How long the task takes to be completed (run time)
• The post-close audit requirements
• To set-up Closing Cockpit, all required steps must be identified in a task list reflecting the organizational hierarchy and the
dependent closing process step sequence must be predefined to enter the flow definition in the template.
• The task defines the activities that users can perform and analyzes execution results.
• CIL can maintain authorization control for users at the application, task group, template, task list, organizational unit, and
task level.
• The authorization checks at the application, template, task list, and task group level are mandatory; the authorization checks
at the organizational unit level and at the task level are optional.
• The system checks user authorization top-down. The system grants authorization to perform an activity only when the
authorization to perform the preceding higher-level activities are granted.
• As the figure shows, to have the authorization to perform an activity on an organizational unit, the user must have the
corresponding authorization at the template or task list level.
• Organizational hierarchies are used to systematically organize the closing process. This helps avoid applying identical
process steps to each of the independent accounting units of the same type.
• SAP delivers the following organizational levels:
• Controlling Area
• Company Code
• Plant
• Controlling Area/Company Code
• Controlling Area/Plant
• Company Code/Plant
• Controlling Area/Company Code/Plant
• A Task is created to identify the activities that need to be performed as part of the overall closing process in a
template.
• This allows users of the Financial Closing Cockpit application to navigate to the required activities from the central
interface.
• In the task, Global IDs have to be maintained to specify the tasks whose status need to be monitored.
• The Global ID Monitor can be used to display the tasks that have been assigned to a global ID.
• The global ID is useful for tracking the status of the tasks that have been assigned to different organizational units.
• With the Global ID Monitor, these tasks can be monitored from a single access point rather than having to open
each task list to check.
• A task group is a special template that allows folders and tasks to be assigned to ordinary templates . A folder or task contains
fields, such as its description, whose values you specify when creating or editing the folder or task. During the task group
assignment, all the field values are copied to the template. Multiple task groups can be assigned to a template.
Template A template is used to structure the individual steps of a process. The relevant activities are
accessible in tasks that are executed online or in background processing.
Exporting and Importing Templates With this process, CIL can export and import folders and tasks in templates in the Comma
Separated Values (CSV) file format. This allows the templates to be edited outside the SAP
system before importing the changes back into the system. This allows the creation, change,
and deletion of multiple folders and tasks in a template, all at once.
Defining Dependencies As required by the organizational structure, some tasks might need to be processed in a certain
order. To meet this requirement, business or system-related dependencies can be defined for
these tasks.
Sending Email Notifications You can configure the system to send email notifications to the responsible agent of a task list
and the processor of a task when the conditions for triggering a notification scenario are met. A
notification scenario describes the circumstance in which email notifications should be sent.
Task List Related When a task list is released, an email can be sent to the responsible agents and the
processors of the tasks in the list, to inform them that they have been assigned tasks.
Prerequisite Task Restarted When a prerequisite task for a successive task is restarted, an email can be sent to the
responsible agent and the processor of the successive task to inform them that they might
need to restart their task.
Task Error or Cancelled When a task has an error or is cancelled during execution, an email can be sent to the
responsible agent and the processor of the task to inform them that they need to fix the error.
Planned End Time of Task When the planned end time of a task is approaching, an email can be sent to the
Approaching responsible agent and the processor of the task to inform them that they need to complete the
task. By default, the system sends email notifications for this scenario 24 hours before the
planned end time of a task, at an interval of 8 hours.
Creating and Releasing Task Lists To perform activities included in a task list, you need to specify variant values. You can define
the structured process flow in a generic template and then create a task list with specific
parameter values. The task list generated from the template automatically updates the time-
related program parameters of the selection variants when you enter the corresponding header
information for the task list.
Cross Template Monitor After assigning tasks in a task group to templates and then creating task lists from the
templates, you can use the Cross Template Monitor to display the status of these tasks in the
task lists. In this way, you can monitor these tasks from a single access point rather than
having to open each task list to check.
Now that you have completed this lesson, you should be able to:
‒ Summarize the importance of the financial Closing Cockpit
‒ Identify the organizational hierarchies within the closing process
‒ Define a task in the Period-End closing process
‒ List the different task groups
‒ Recognize the additional features of Closing Cockpit
Now that you have completed this course, you should be able to:
‒ Describe the process of Closing Cockpit (only for PT Central Team)
‒ Explain the various steps involved in the Local Period-End Closing
‒ Month end Closing activities according to Global procedures
‒ Month end Closing for Country specific local requirements
‒ Year end Closing