SAP Finance & Treasury: Key Concepts and Processes

Key Concepts in SAP Finance & Treasury Management

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• Standard Customizing Setting

Actuals Dimension

• Only 1

Affiliated Group

• Used for emphasis

AIF (Application Interface Framework)

• Relevant for business users

Analytics Cloud

• Publishing capabilities
• Data: Information, Insight, Action, Value framework
• Fund spreading capabilities
• Fund allocation

Analyzer Offers

• Integration with Market Risk Analyzer

Assign External

• Utilizes interpretation algorithms

Automatic Payment

• Process includes entering payment parameters, running payment proposals, creating payment media, and generating accounting entries.
• Specifying payment request clearing accounts by company code.

Balance Sheet

• Balance sheet reporting

Bank Account

• Supports non-sequential approval patterns

Bank Communication

• Facilitates final payment approval
• Manages payment medium formats

Bank Reconciliation

• Manages bank sub-accounts

Bank-Internal

• Used for risk analysis

BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface)

• Manages raw exposures

BTE (Business Transaction Event)

• Enables users defined in SAP Bank Account Management to approve payments.

Business Partner

• Manages financial transactions
• Integration with Transaction Manager
• Utilizes the Bank Directory

Cash Flow

• Manually entered cash flow data

Cash Management

• Mapping G/L accounts to bank accounts

Cash Operations

• Supports cash concentration

Cash Flow Hedge

• Creation of hypothetical derivatives

Central Finance

• Replication of assets
• Initial data load

Cockpit

• Manages hedging areas

Code Column

• Repetitive code column functionality

Company Code

• Manages company-code-dependent data

Counterparty

• Identifies partner banks

Counterparty Role

• Manages derived flows

Country

• Defines direction of payment methods

Country Level

• Manages payment medium formats

Credit Risk

• Performs online limit checks

Credit Risk Analyzer

• Defines determination procedures

Effectiveness

• Relates to hypothetical derivatives

Electronic Bank

• Creation of account symbols
• Derived value calculation

Exchange Risk

• Supports hedge management

Exposure

• Manages characteristics values

Exposure Positions

• Used in the derivation strategy

Exposure Type

• Links to corresponding business types

FI (Financial Accounting)

• Serialization within AIF

Financial Accounting

• Integration with Transaction Manager

Financial Planning

• Supports fund managers

Financial Risk Management

• Supports hedge management

Fiori

• Integration with SAP Fiori apps
• Actuals reporting
• Integration with Cash Flow Analyzer
• Reviewing bank accounts
• Physical cash management

Flows and Sub-Processes

• Utilizes preprocessing programs

Foreign Exchange

• Manages transaction types

Fund and Grant

• Manages investment pool participants

FX (Foreign Exchange)

• Core component of SAP Treasury and Risk Management
• Manages analysis items
• Manages released FX hedge requests
• Process step: After capturing raw exposure data, before creating hedging areas.
• Addresses Balance Sheet FX Risk
• Process step: After capturing raw exposure data, before concluding hedging contracts.