by Gyanendra Mishra, Senior Consultant, Infosys
Project Expert - Volume 5 (2012), Update 1

Learn the challenges that Stonebridge Companies faced while implementing SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) 6.0 in a hotel environment. Find out what the benefits of using SAP ECC in a hotel are and how you can ensure that an implementation is successful.

by Gary Byrne, Managing Editor, Financials Expert and GRC Expert
Financials Expert - Volume 11 (2012), Update 2

Revaluation of fixed assets is a common business event. Maybe your organization is going through a merger or acquisition, or maybe you are involved in a year-end fixed asset revaluation? Whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you are following best practices for a fixed asset revaluation.

by Mark Chalfen, Finance Capability Lead, Bluefin Solutions
Financials Expert - Volume 11 (2012), Update 1

Learn about the latest changes that have been implemented in enhancement package 5.0 via business function sets — namely FIN_FSCM_CCD_3 and FIN_FSCM_CCD_INTEGRATION_3. You can use these business function sets if you are planning on implementing SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (SAP FSCM), including SAP Collections Management, or if you have implemented an SAP Collections Management solution without any enhancement packages.

by Kees van Westerop, Senior SAP Consultant, Kwest Consulting
Financials Expert - Volume 11 (2012), Update 1

Partial payments are sometimes difficult to process in an SAP system. Learn how to set editing options to automatically link partial payments to the invoices to which they belong.

by Gary Byrne, Managing Editor, Financials Expert and GRC Expert
Financials Expert - Volume 11 (2012), Update 1

Rohana Gunawardena answers 10 questions about using SAP credit management functionality.

by Harsh Mathur, Senior Consultant, Infosys Limited
Financials Expert - Volume 11 (2012), Update 1

Adjustments must be made to SAP’s Asset Accounting (FI-AA) component to make it compliant with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Learn what preparatory settings are required in an SAP system to facilitate these adjustments and how to use parallel reporting to ensure IFRS compliance.

by Balachandra Prathi, Consultant
BI Expert - Volume 10 (2012), Update 1

When you need a structured report for regulatory and statutory reporting, consider using a method based on creating data sets in SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC). It is more flexible and requires less maintenance than the traditional approach of creating a hierarchy/financial statement version in SAP ECC using transaction OB58 and then loading it to SAP NetWeaver BW using the standard business content extractor.

by Shari Alexander, Director of Channel Partnerships, Z Option, and Chris Meyer, Managing Director of the Americas, Excel4apps
insiderPROFILES - 2012 (Volume 3), January (Issue 1)

Though financial professionals who use Microsoft Excel often rely on IT to create uploading templates, queries, and reports from their SAP systems, there is a way to eliminate this dependence. Learn the benefits of utilizing Z Option’s GLSU and the GL Wand solution from Excel4apps, which are both SAP certified for smooth integration with SAP ERP Financials.

by Frank Krause, Jens Kram, and Markus Bredel, SAP AG
SAPinsider - 2012 (Volume 13), January (Issue 1)

Regulatory requirements and accounting rules implemented in the past decade have made calculating a company's current and future financial obligations more time consuming and complicated. Small mistakes when accounting for the cost of retiring assets can cause monetary and possibly legal trouble for an organization. To help its customers calculate their asset retirement obligations (AROs) more accurately and easily, SAP has developed SAP Asset Retirement Obligation Management, a solution that automates the data management and accounting processes associated with AROs. This article explains the importance of ARO management and how SAP's new application can streamline your accounting efforts.

by Gary Byrne, Managing Editor, Financials Expert and GRC Expert
Financials Expert - Volume 10 (2011), Update 10

Are you still checking SAP Notes and updating correction code manually when necessary? If you use Note Assistant, your manual and laborious efforts updating SAP Notes are unnecessary. You access Note Assistant via transaction code SNOTE.