SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation
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SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS FINANCIAL
CONSOLIDATION 7.5 STARTER KIT FOR US GAAP
SP1
Simplified Configuration Description
2010-04-28
1
Copyright
© 2009 SAP® BusinessObjects™. All rights reserved. SAP BusinessObjects and its logos,
BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports®, SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Mart™, SAP
BusinessObjects Data Insight™, SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence™, SAP
BusinessObjects Rapid Marts®, SAP BusinessObjects Watchlist Security™, SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®, and Xcelsius® are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Business Objects, an SAP company and/or affiliated companies in the
United States and/or other countries. SAP® is a registered trademark of SAP AG in
Germany and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of
their respective owners.
2010-04-28
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
No part of this starter kit may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose
without the express permission of SAP AG. The information contained herein may be
changed without prior notice.
Some software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary
software components of other software vendors.
The information in this starter kit is proprietary to SAP. No part of this starter kit‟s content
may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the
express prior permission of SAP AG. This starter kit is not subject to your license
agreement or any other agreement with SAP. This starter kit contains only intended content,
and pre-customized elements of the SAP® product and is not intended to be binding upon
SAP to any particular course of business, product strategy, and/or development. Please
note that this starter kit is subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time
without notice. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this starter kit. SAP
does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, pre-configured
elements, or other items contained within this starter kit.
SAP DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL, FINANCIAL OR ACCOUNTING ADVISE OR
SERVICES. SAP WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY NONCOMPLIANCE OR
ADVERSE RESULTS AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OR RELIANCE ON THE STARTER
KIT. THIS STARTER KIT IS PROVIDED WITHOUT A WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
NON-INFRINGEMENT. SAP SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND
INCLUDING
WITHOUT
LIMITATION
DIRECT,
SPECIAL,
INDIRECT,
OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF THIS STARTER
KIT. THIS LIMITATION SHALL NOT APPLY IN CASES OF INTENT OR GROSS
NEGLIGENCE.
The statutory liability for personal injury and defective products (under German law) is not
affected. SAP has no control over the use of pre-customized elements contained in this
starter kit and does not endorse your use of the starter kit nor provide any warranty
whatsoever relating to third-party use of the starter kit.
Contents
Chapter 1
Foreword .................................................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 2
Data collection ........................................................................................................................ 7
Data entry format ...................................................................................................................... 7
Account typology .............................................................................................................. 7
Customizing the chart of accounts ................................................................................... 7
Data package configuration ...................................................................................................... 8
Package Summary ........................................................................................................... 8
Links between reports in the package .............................................................................. 9
Data entry principles ................................................................................................................. 9
Order of package data entry ............................................................................................. 9
Breakdown by flow.......................................................................................................... 10
Data package validation ......................................................................................................... 10
Types of control .............................................................................................................. 10
Set and subsets of controls ............................................................................................ 10
Main types of control....................................................................................................... 10
Control levels .......................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 3
Consolidation process ......................................................................................................... 13
Overview of the consolidation process in SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation ..... 13
Consolidation definition .................................................................................................. 13
Consolidation processing ............................................................................................... 13
Configured automatic entries .................................................................................................. 14
Chapter 4
Analysis process .................................................................................................................. 15
Reports typology and organization ......................................................................................... 15
Consolidated Financial statements................................................................................. 15
Accounting reports .......................................................................................................... 15
Ledger by audit-ID .......................................................................................................... 15
Smart Links between reports .......................................................................................... 16
Flat Balance sheet .......................................................................................................... 16
Consolidating Balance sheet .......................................................................................... 16
Map of links between reports .......................................................................................... 17
End of analysis Debit-Credit Ledger ............................................................................... 17
Analyzing data with the audit trail ........................................................................................... 18
3
Contents
Standard audit-trail.................................................................................................................. 18
Analysis of a balance sheet account .............................................................................. 18
Cash Flow audit-trail ............................................................................................................... 20
Illustration of how you can analyze a CFS line item ....................................................... 20
Monitoring and controlling the consolidation process ............................................................. 21
Summary reports for end-users ...................................................................................... 21
Control report for the administrator ................................................................................. 21
Consolidation control dashboard .................................................................................... 21
Appendix 1 – Entry Balance .......................................................................................................................... 23
Appendix 2 – Financial statements .............................................................................................................. 27
Appendix 3 – Default naming convention .................................................................................................... 31
4
Foreword
Foreword
The SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation (FC) starter kit assists you in setting up your application
in order to adhere to US GAAP.
It enables you to collect data at the reporting unit level in order to produce, retrieve and understand your
consolidated accounts via pre configured common consolidation rules, financial statements and a
comprehensive set of audit trail reports.
5
Foreword
6
Data collection
Data collection
Data entry format
Account typology
The Starter Kit for US GAAP chart of accounts is based on the US GAAP XBRL Taxonomy published by
the SEC in December 2007.
It enables you to retrieve a balance sheet with the current / non current primary breakdown and an Income
Statement classified by function. Some disclosure accounts are also included in the configuration to
analyze headcounts movements and the breakdown by employee category.
The chart of accounts is presented in the appendix.
Customizing the chart of accounts
Enhancing the chart of accounts
The chart of accounts has been designed to be easily enriched with your industry-specific accounts.
In the Starter Kit for US GAAP, accounts are defined with a behaviour-based method. In this dynamic
implementation, the characteristics that are attached to an account define its behaviours throughout the
consolidation process: for instance data collection schedule, analysis by flow, or position in the account
hierarchy, etc.
Creating an account with the “save as” feature from a template account allows you to assign the
appropriate attributes automatically to the new account. Characteristic values can also be imported from an
Excel spreadsheet along with account codes and labels, either by copy and paste from an Excel
spreadsheet, or by importing a flat file.
The behaviour-based implementation principles have been used for data entry and analysis reports as well
as consolidation rules to integrate new accounts in the consolidation process in a dynamic way.
Adapting the naming convention for codes
The Starter Kit for US GAAP is provided with a default naming convention for accounts codes (Cf.
appendix). However this convention can be changed with no impact on the configuration. This is because
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation does not use short codes to identify accounts and define
where they are used in the application. It uses an internal identifier. More generally this applies to any
configuration objects.
Therefore your naming convention will be fully taken into account in the whole starter kit and notably in the
input schedules and the output reports.
7
Data collection
Data package configuration
The data package groups together schedules that are used for entering data at the reporting unit level
(financial statements).The data entry schedules are grouped into books by type of information: Balance &
Equity, movement Analysis, Intercompany breakdown, Statistical and disclosures.
A homepage has been created to guide the user through data entry steps. In order to facilitate the data
entry, links between schedules have been implemented to provide intercompany or movements details in a
faster way.
Package Summary
8
Data collection
Links between reports in the package
Data entry principles
Order of package data entry
A step-by-step approach for entering data is configured in the package thanks to its architecture and the
links that have been created between the schedules. This approach is summarized in the package
homepage.
The steps are as follows:
1. Enter (manually or importing) the closing balance (balance sheet and income statement)
2. Enter the period movements of the balance sheet items (investments, intangible and tangible
assets, depreciation, net equity etc.)
3. Enter intercompany balances
4. Enter headcounts
9
Data collection
Other disclosure schedules can easily be created and inserted into the package folder and linked to the
package homepage.
Breakdown by flow
Flow entries allow you to identify variations in the balance sheet between the opening and closing balance
and therefore automatically generate the statement of cash flows.
The flows available in the package may be classified into two categories:
Flows for usual transactions
Flows for specific transactions (reclassification, internal mergers …)
Data package validation
Types of control
There are two types of control:
Blocking controls: if these are not valid, the status of the data package cannot be “validated”. All
these controls must be valid.
Non-blocking controls: these controls are just warnings and do not prevent the data package from
being validated.
Set and subsets of controls
In the package, controls are organized into subsets within a set of controls. Each subset corresponds to a
book.
Main types of control
AIM
EXAMPLE
Check main balances
Assets = Liabilities + Equity
Net income as per P&L = Net income as per Balance Sheet
Gross value of asset >= Depreciation
Gross value of Properties, Plants and Equipment >= depreciation at
closing
Analysis by partner of an IC account
must = account total
Analysis by partner of Accounts receivables, Intercompany must =
account total
Changes on flows must be analyzed
Changes of Properties, Plants and Equipment must be analyzed
(F15 = 0)
Internal investments must be analyzed
Investments in subsidiaries must be fully broken down by held company
10
Data collection
Control levels
4 levels of control have been created in the US GAAP Starter Kit to activate more or less controls
depending on the reporting time period:
Level 1 – Income statement
Level 2 – Income statement and balance sheet positions
Level 3 – Income statement and balance sheet, including movement
Level 4 – Period end disclosure (Income Statement, full Balance sheet and disclosures)
The control levels check from the minimum level (LEV1: submission of the income statement only) to the
maximum level corresponding to a full package (LEV4: complete submission).
Note:
Each control is linked to a level;
The level of control to be reached is set by the central administrator when the package is generated;
When a level is required to be reached (e.g. level 3), all the controls attached to lower levels must also
be valid (e.g. level 1 to 3).
11
Data collection
12
Consolidation process
Consolidation process
Overview of the consolidation process in SAP
BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation
Consolidation definition
The settings of a consolidation definition are:
A category and a data entry period: selection of the data to be consolidated
A scope
A version
A consolidation currency
The „version‟ parameter is a technical dimension that allows different consolidation settings to be selected
for a given category, a given data period and a given currency:
Set of consolidation rules
Scope (pro-forma statements)
Exchange rates table (pro-forma statements)
Consolidation processing
Two processing modes exist: full processing and incremental processing.
During the course of full processing, the software executes the following steps:
Read the scope
Load data: data of the period (package data and manual journal entries) and the opening balance, if
any
Convert package data and manual journal entries
Run the rules of the selected set of rules (see below)
For incremental processing, the software executes the same steps as described above only
for the manual journal entries recorded since the last consolidation;
for new packages.
The conversion of data entered in foreign currency is carried out as follows (using the closing rate method):
The closing balance of the balance sheet is converted using closing exchange rates, except for net
equity which is recorded using historical exchange rates (calculation and recording of the currency
translation adjustment)
The net income of the period is converted using average exchange rates
Since they are automatically calculated from balance sheet movements and profit and loss accounts,
cash flow statement items are calculated at the average exchange rates of the period.
13
Consolidation process
The starter kit handles the full consolidation method. However it can be enhanced easily to allow you to
book manual journal entries related to the equity method.
Note:
FC includes features to manage the equity consolidation method automatically, notably rule settings and
category scenario options. These features have not been used in the Starter Kit for US GAAP to keep the
configuration simple.
The scope changes handled by the Starter Kit for US GAAP set of rules are:
Subsidiaries entering the scope
Subsidiaries leaving the scope
Acquired companies as part of internal mergers
Flows generated during the consolidation process allow you to retrieve changes due to currency translation
differences and to changes in scope consolidation (incoming/outgoing entities, etc.). They enable the
configuration to automatically produce analyses of changes in Equity and the Cash Flow statement.
Configured automatic entries
The Starter Kit for US GAAP includes a set of consolidation rules that enable you to produce consolidated
data, using data from packages. This set of rules can be enhanced in order to meet your specific
accounting policies.
The automatic consolidation entries are:
Elimination of intercompany reciprocal operations
Elimination of investments
Calculation of the currency translation reserves on shares and equity
In addition to standard consolidation rules, some technical rules have been configured in order to:
Calculate and store the subtotal accounts
Calculate and store the cash flow statement line items
Calculate and store year-to-date consolidated amounts
14
Analysis process
Analysis process
Reports typology and organization
Consolidated Financial statements
The following central financial statements are ready to use:
A balance sheet with a current / non current format,
an income statement including intercompany accounts,
a consolidated cash flow statement,
a statement of changes in equity.
Samples of these statements can be viewed in the appendix
The financial statements are also available in the following formats:
A breakdown by segment (e.g. consolidating Income Statement…) and leaf level unit
A breakdown by quarter for the whole company or a point of view in the reporting unit hierarchy. The
„Performance Management‟ folder has been created to group these periodic reports. This might also be
your favourite folder for your custom comparison reports: multi-period, actual vs. budget vs. forecast
etc.
Lastly, a report allows you to analyze the changes in headcounts both by employee category and by
country.
Accounting reports
The accounting reports, namely balance reports and ledgers allows you to analyze consolidated data by
drilling down to the original data: package input, manual journal entry, automatic journal entry. Moreover
dedicated journal reports allow you to retrieve both automatic and manual journal entries in a Debit / Credit
format, including the breakdown by partner.
Ledger by audit-ID
15
Analysis process
Smart Links between reports
Links have been built between financial and accounting reports (balances & ledgers) providing you with:
A comprehensive audit trail from top level consolidated data to amount at input or journal entry level (cf.
Audit trail below)
An intuitive access to different retrieval formats for financial statements: consolidating, by leaf level unit
Flat Balance sheet
Consolidating Balance sheet
In a few clicks, you can link to different financial views of consolidation statements or drill-down to various
breakdown types: the input level account, leaf level units or by manual and automatic journal entries in the
debit-credit reports.
16
Analysis process
Map of links between reports
End of analysis Debit-Credit Ledger
17
Analysis process
Analyzing data with the audit trail
The Starter Kit for US GAAP contains reports for the analysis of consolidated data.
Each data item is linked to an audit ID and an entry number which makes the audit trail possible.
The audit ID allows the accounting origin to be tracked. For instance:
The 0PACK Package data audit ID tracks data that has been entered in the data packages
The 30-ICE1 audit IDs are linked to the elimination of intercompany transactions
With analysis schedules, each line of the balance sheet and income statement can be detailed by account,
unit or audit-ID.
Standard audit-trail
Analysis of a balance sheet account
18
Analysis process
19
Analysis process
Cash Flow audit-trail
The cash-flow statement is dynamically built during the consolidation on the basis of accounts and flow
couples defined in the balance sheet by flow.
In the Cash Flow audit trail, each line of the Cash Flow Statement can be analyzed to know which
account/flow pairs generates it.
Illustration of how you can analyze a CFS line item
20
Analysis process
Monitoring and controlling the consolidation process
Summary reports for end-users
Summary reports from the C-0 folder provide overviews of the consolidation process and operational
information to the end-user.
Process overview reports
Check existing
consolidations
Check packages
timestamps
Operational information reports
Check Cash Flow Mapping
Check the conversion rates
that have been used in a given
consolidation
Check the consolidation scope
Control report for the administrator
The “Consolidation control dashboard” helps to validate high-level balances issued by the consolidation at a
glance.
Consolidation control dashboard
21
Analysis process
22
Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
Assets
23
Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
Liabilities and equity
24
Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
Income statement
25
Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
26
Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Consolidated Balance Sheet
27
Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Consolidated Income Statement
28
Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Consolidated Cash Flow Statement
29
Appendix 2 – Financial statements
30
Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Appendix 3 – Default naming
convention
In the financial accounts, the first character indicates the account type (more detailed than the account
class)
1 = Current Assets
2 = Non Current Assets
3 = Current Liabilities
4 = Non Current Liabilities
5 = Equity accounts
6 = Revenue
7 = Cost Of Revenue
8 = Operating Expenses
9 = Non-Operating
S = Stats
The code‟s suffix indicates the account type
TP = External transactions, Equity - Minority interest
GR = Group Intercompany transactions, Equity - Group part
EL = Elimination accounts
GV = Gross Value
DA = Depreciation / Amortization
MI = Equity - Minority interest
CO = Equity – Consolidated (Group part)
TT = Total
31
CONSOLIDATION 7.5 STARTER KIT FOR US GAAP
SP1
Simplified Configuration Description
2010-04-28
1
Copyright
© 2009 SAP® BusinessObjects™. All rights reserved. SAP BusinessObjects and its logos,
BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports®, SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Mart™, SAP
BusinessObjects Data Insight™, SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence™, SAP
BusinessObjects Rapid Marts®, SAP BusinessObjects Watchlist Security™, SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®, and Xcelsius® are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Business Objects, an SAP company and/or affiliated companies in the
United States and/or other countries. SAP® is a registered trademark of SAP AG in
Germany and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of
their respective owners.
2010-04-28
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
No part of this starter kit may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose
without the express permission of SAP AG. The information contained herein may be
changed without prior notice.
Some software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary
software components of other software vendors.
The information in this starter kit is proprietary to SAP. No part of this starter kit‟s content
may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the
express prior permission of SAP AG. This starter kit is not subject to your license
agreement or any other agreement with SAP. This starter kit contains only intended content,
and pre-customized elements of the SAP® product and is not intended to be binding upon
SAP to any particular course of business, product strategy, and/or development. Please
note that this starter kit is subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time
without notice. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this starter kit. SAP
does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, pre-configured
elements, or other items contained within this starter kit.
SAP DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL, FINANCIAL OR ACCOUNTING ADVISE OR
SERVICES. SAP WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY NONCOMPLIANCE OR
ADVERSE RESULTS AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OR RELIANCE ON THE STARTER
KIT. THIS STARTER KIT IS PROVIDED WITHOUT A WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
NON-INFRINGEMENT. SAP SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND
INCLUDING
WITHOUT
LIMITATION
DIRECT,
SPECIAL,
INDIRECT,
OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF THIS STARTER
KIT. THIS LIMITATION SHALL NOT APPLY IN CASES OF INTENT OR GROSS
NEGLIGENCE.
The statutory liability for personal injury and defective products (under German law) is not
affected. SAP has no control over the use of pre-customized elements contained in this
starter kit and does not endorse your use of the starter kit nor provide any warranty
whatsoever relating to third-party use of the starter kit.
Contents
Chapter 1
Foreword .................................................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 2
Data collection ........................................................................................................................ 7
Data entry format ...................................................................................................................... 7
Account typology .............................................................................................................. 7
Customizing the chart of accounts ................................................................................... 7
Data package configuration ...................................................................................................... 8
Package Summary ........................................................................................................... 8
Links between reports in the package .............................................................................. 9
Data entry principles ................................................................................................................. 9
Order of package data entry ............................................................................................. 9
Breakdown by flow.......................................................................................................... 10
Data package validation ......................................................................................................... 10
Types of control .............................................................................................................. 10
Set and subsets of controls ............................................................................................ 10
Main types of control....................................................................................................... 10
Control levels .......................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 3
Consolidation process ......................................................................................................... 13
Overview of the consolidation process in SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation ..... 13
Consolidation definition .................................................................................................. 13
Consolidation processing ............................................................................................... 13
Configured automatic entries .................................................................................................. 14
Chapter 4
Analysis process .................................................................................................................. 15
Reports typology and organization ......................................................................................... 15
Consolidated Financial statements................................................................................. 15
Accounting reports .......................................................................................................... 15
Ledger by audit-ID .......................................................................................................... 15
Smart Links between reports .......................................................................................... 16
Flat Balance sheet .......................................................................................................... 16
Consolidating Balance sheet .......................................................................................... 16
Map of links between reports .......................................................................................... 17
End of analysis Debit-Credit Ledger ............................................................................... 17
Analyzing data with the audit trail ........................................................................................... 18
3
Contents
Standard audit-trail.................................................................................................................. 18
Analysis of a balance sheet account .............................................................................. 18
Cash Flow audit-trail ............................................................................................................... 20
Illustration of how you can analyze a CFS line item ....................................................... 20
Monitoring and controlling the consolidation process ............................................................. 21
Summary reports for end-users ...................................................................................... 21
Control report for the administrator ................................................................................. 21
Consolidation control dashboard .................................................................................... 21
Appendix 1 – Entry Balance .......................................................................................................................... 23
Appendix 2 – Financial statements .............................................................................................................. 27
Appendix 3 – Default naming convention .................................................................................................... 31
4
Foreword
Foreword
The SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation (FC) starter kit assists you in setting up your application
in order to adhere to US GAAP.
It enables you to collect data at the reporting unit level in order to produce, retrieve and understand your
consolidated accounts via pre configured common consolidation rules, financial statements and a
comprehensive set of audit trail reports.
5
Foreword
6
Data collection
Data collection
Data entry format
Account typology
The Starter Kit for US GAAP chart of accounts is based on the US GAAP XBRL Taxonomy published by
the SEC in December 2007.
It enables you to retrieve a balance sheet with the current / non current primary breakdown and an Income
Statement classified by function. Some disclosure accounts are also included in the configuration to
analyze headcounts movements and the breakdown by employee category.
The chart of accounts is presented in the appendix.
Customizing the chart of accounts
Enhancing the chart of accounts
The chart of accounts has been designed to be easily enriched with your industry-specific accounts.
In the Starter Kit for US GAAP, accounts are defined with a behaviour-based method. In this dynamic
implementation, the characteristics that are attached to an account define its behaviours throughout the
consolidation process: for instance data collection schedule, analysis by flow, or position in the account
hierarchy, etc.
Creating an account with the “save as” feature from a template account allows you to assign the
appropriate attributes automatically to the new account. Characteristic values can also be imported from an
Excel spreadsheet along with account codes and labels, either by copy and paste from an Excel
spreadsheet, or by importing a flat file.
The behaviour-based implementation principles have been used for data entry and analysis reports as well
as consolidation rules to integrate new accounts in the consolidation process in a dynamic way.
Adapting the naming convention for codes
The Starter Kit for US GAAP is provided with a default naming convention for accounts codes (Cf.
appendix). However this convention can be changed with no impact on the configuration. This is because
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation does not use short codes to identify accounts and define
where they are used in the application. It uses an internal identifier. More generally this applies to any
configuration objects.
Therefore your naming convention will be fully taken into account in the whole starter kit and notably in the
input schedules and the output reports.
7
Data collection
Data package configuration
The data package groups together schedules that are used for entering data at the reporting unit level
(financial statements).The data entry schedules are grouped into books by type of information: Balance &
Equity, movement Analysis, Intercompany breakdown, Statistical and disclosures.
A homepage has been created to guide the user through data entry steps. In order to facilitate the data
entry, links between schedules have been implemented to provide intercompany or movements details in a
faster way.
Package Summary
8
Data collection
Links between reports in the package
Data entry principles
Order of package data entry
A step-by-step approach for entering data is configured in the package thanks to its architecture and the
links that have been created between the schedules. This approach is summarized in the package
homepage.
The steps are as follows:
1. Enter (manually or importing) the closing balance (balance sheet and income statement)
2. Enter the period movements of the balance sheet items (investments, intangible and tangible
assets, depreciation, net equity etc.)
3. Enter intercompany balances
4. Enter headcounts
9
Data collection
Other disclosure schedules can easily be created and inserted into the package folder and linked to the
package homepage.
Breakdown by flow
Flow entries allow you to identify variations in the balance sheet between the opening and closing balance
and therefore automatically generate the statement of cash flows.
The flows available in the package may be classified into two categories:
Flows for usual transactions
Flows for specific transactions (reclassification, internal mergers …)
Data package validation
Types of control
There are two types of control:
Blocking controls: if these are not valid, the status of the data package cannot be “validated”. All
these controls must be valid.
Non-blocking controls: these controls are just warnings and do not prevent the data package from
being validated.
Set and subsets of controls
In the package, controls are organized into subsets within a set of controls. Each subset corresponds to a
book.
Main types of control
AIM
EXAMPLE
Check main balances
Assets = Liabilities + Equity
Net income as per P&L = Net income as per Balance Sheet
Gross value of asset >= Depreciation
Gross value of Properties, Plants and Equipment >= depreciation at
closing
Analysis by partner of an IC account
must = account total
Analysis by partner of Accounts receivables, Intercompany must =
account total
Changes on flows must be analyzed
Changes of Properties, Plants and Equipment must be analyzed
(F15 = 0)
Internal investments must be analyzed
Investments in subsidiaries must be fully broken down by held company
10
Data collection
Control levels
4 levels of control have been created in the US GAAP Starter Kit to activate more or less controls
depending on the reporting time period:
Level 1 – Income statement
Level 2 – Income statement and balance sheet positions
Level 3 – Income statement and balance sheet, including movement
Level 4 – Period end disclosure (Income Statement, full Balance sheet and disclosures)
The control levels check from the minimum level (LEV1: submission of the income statement only) to the
maximum level corresponding to a full package (LEV4: complete submission).
Note:
Each control is linked to a level;
The level of control to be reached is set by the central administrator when the package is generated;
When a level is required to be reached (e.g. level 3), all the controls attached to lower levels must also
be valid (e.g. level 1 to 3).
11
Data collection
12
Consolidation process
Consolidation process
Overview of the consolidation process in SAP
BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation
Consolidation definition
The settings of a consolidation definition are:
A category and a data entry period: selection of the data to be consolidated
A scope
A version
A consolidation currency
The „version‟ parameter is a technical dimension that allows different consolidation settings to be selected
for a given category, a given data period and a given currency:
Set of consolidation rules
Scope (pro-forma statements)
Exchange rates table (pro-forma statements)
Consolidation processing
Two processing modes exist: full processing and incremental processing.
During the course of full processing, the software executes the following steps:
Read the scope
Load data: data of the period (package data and manual journal entries) and the opening balance, if
any
Convert package data and manual journal entries
Run the rules of the selected set of rules (see below)
For incremental processing, the software executes the same steps as described above only
for the manual journal entries recorded since the last consolidation;
for new packages.
The conversion of data entered in foreign currency is carried out as follows (using the closing rate method):
The closing balance of the balance sheet is converted using closing exchange rates, except for net
equity which is recorded using historical exchange rates (calculation and recording of the currency
translation adjustment)
The net income of the period is converted using average exchange rates
Since they are automatically calculated from balance sheet movements and profit and loss accounts,
cash flow statement items are calculated at the average exchange rates of the period.
13
Consolidation process
The starter kit handles the full consolidation method. However it can be enhanced easily to allow you to
book manual journal entries related to the equity method.
Note:
FC includes features to manage the equity consolidation method automatically, notably rule settings and
category scenario options. These features have not been used in the Starter Kit for US GAAP to keep the
configuration simple.
The scope changes handled by the Starter Kit for US GAAP set of rules are:
Subsidiaries entering the scope
Subsidiaries leaving the scope
Acquired companies as part of internal mergers
Flows generated during the consolidation process allow you to retrieve changes due to currency translation
differences and to changes in scope consolidation (incoming/outgoing entities, etc.). They enable the
configuration to automatically produce analyses of changes in Equity and the Cash Flow statement.
Configured automatic entries
The Starter Kit for US GAAP includes a set of consolidation rules that enable you to produce consolidated
data, using data from packages. This set of rules can be enhanced in order to meet your specific
accounting policies.
The automatic consolidation entries are:
Elimination of intercompany reciprocal operations
Elimination of investments
Calculation of the currency translation reserves on shares and equity
In addition to standard consolidation rules, some technical rules have been configured in order to:
Calculate and store the subtotal accounts
Calculate and store the cash flow statement line items
Calculate and store year-to-date consolidated amounts
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Reports typology and organization
Consolidated Financial statements
The following central financial statements are ready to use:
A balance sheet with a current / non current format,
an income statement including intercompany accounts,
a consolidated cash flow statement,
a statement of changes in equity.
Samples of these statements can be viewed in the appendix
The financial statements are also available in the following formats:
A breakdown by segment (e.g. consolidating Income Statement…) and leaf level unit
A breakdown by quarter for the whole company or a point of view in the reporting unit hierarchy. The
„Performance Management‟ folder has been created to group these periodic reports. This might also be
your favourite folder for your custom comparison reports: multi-period, actual vs. budget vs. forecast
etc.
Lastly, a report allows you to analyze the changes in headcounts both by employee category and by
country.
Accounting reports
The accounting reports, namely balance reports and ledgers allows you to analyze consolidated data by
drilling down to the original data: package input, manual journal entry, automatic journal entry. Moreover
dedicated journal reports allow you to retrieve both automatic and manual journal entries in a Debit / Credit
format, including the breakdown by partner.
Ledger by audit-ID
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Smart Links between reports
Links have been built between financial and accounting reports (balances & ledgers) providing you with:
A comprehensive audit trail from top level consolidated data to amount at input or journal entry level (cf.
Audit trail below)
An intuitive access to different retrieval formats for financial statements: consolidating, by leaf level unit
Flat Balance sheet
Consolidating Balance sheet
In a few clicks, you can link to different financial views of consolidation statements or drill-down to various
breakdown types: the input level account, leaf level units or by manual and automatic journal entries in the
debit-credit reports.
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Map of links between reports
End of analysis Debit-Credit Ledger
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Analyzing data with the audit trail
The Starter Kit for US GAAP contains reports for the analysis of consolidated data.
Each data item is linked to an audit ID and an entry number which makes the audit trail possible.
The audit ID allows the accounting origin to be tracked. For instance:
The 0PACK Package data audit ID tracks data that has been entered in the data packages
The 30-ICE1 audit IDs are linked to the elimination of intercompany transactions
With analysis schedules, each line of the balance sheet and income statement can be detailed by account,
unit or audit-ID.
Standard audit-trail
Analysis of a balance sheet account
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Cash Flow audit-trail
The cash-flow statement is dynamically built during the consolidation on the basis of accounts and flow
couples defined in the balance sheet by flow.
In the Cash Flow audit trail, each line of the Cash Flow Statement can be analyzed to know which
account/flow pairs generates it.
Illustration of how you can analyze a CFS line item
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Monitoring and controlling the consolidation process
Summary reports for end-users
Summary reports from the C-0 folder provide overviews of the consolidation process and operational
information to the end-user.
Process overview reports
Check existing
consolidations
Check packages
timestamps
Operational information reports
Check Cash Flow Mapping
Check the conversion rates
that have been used in a given
consolidation
Check the consolidation scope
Control report for the administrator
The “Consolidation control dashboard” helps to validate high-level balances issued by the consolidation at a
glance.
Consolidation control dashboard
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Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
Assets
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Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
Liabilities and equity
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Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
Income statement
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Appendix 1 – Entry Balance
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Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Consolidated Balance Sheet
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Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Consolidated Income Statement
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Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Consolidated Cash Flow Statement
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Appendix 2 – Financial statements
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Appendix 2 – Financial statements
Appendix 3 – Default naming
convention
In the financial accounts, the first character indicates the account type (more detailed than the account
class)
1 = Current Assets
2 = Non Current Assets
3 = Current Liabilities
4 = Non Current Liabilities
5 = Equity accounts
6 = Revenue
7 = Cost Of Revenue
8 = Operating Expenses
9 = Non-Operating
S = Stats
The code‟s suffix indicates the account type
TP = External transactions, Equity - Minority interest
GR = Group Intercompany transactions, Equity - Group part
EL = Elimination accounts
GV = Gross Value
DA = Depreciation / Amortization
MI = Equity - Minority interest
CO = Equity – Consolidated (Group part)
TT = Total
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