Advanced Financial Closing powered by SAP Business Technology Platform

This expertly written guide provides business users, IT users, and SAP consultants with an overview of key closing concepts and detailed insights intohow to implement SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced fi nancial closing (AFC)utilizing the capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to meetmonth-end closing requirements. Explore SAP S/4HANA closing concepts foradvanced financial closing (AFC), focusing on three key aspects—the “What”,the “Why” and the “How”—of month-end closing activities. Take a look at keyfunctionality and learn how to use different AFC Fiori apps on SAP BTP todefine a global template, execute closing activities, and monitor and analyzethe entire closing cycle in real-time using a Fiori-based dashboard and reports.Explore how to use configuration apps to enable user roles, authorizations,system access, and end-to-end orchestration of closing activities betweenAFC and financial backend systems such as SAP S/4HANA. Examine somekey points to consider during an AFC implementation, including examples anda roadmap for the future. Using screenshots and examples from the field, theauthor covers:

• Global template design and setup
• Analytics and reporting
• Confi guration and user management
• AFC Implementation at a glance