New Online Demos and Thought Leadership Papers for SAP® Financial Close 10.0, Starter Kits for U.S. GAAP and IFRS
Streamline Compliance, Reduce Implementation
We are pleased to announce the availability of new thought leadership papers and online product demonstrations for SAP® Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 for SAP NetWeaver – powered by SAP HANA™ and SAP® Disclosure Management 10.0. These new assets show how our Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications help streamline compliance with IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and U.S. GAAP (United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and accelerate customers’ financial close process. The videos and papers are public and can be shared with customers, prospects and partners to demonstrate SAP EPM leadership in addressing regulatory complexity.
Online Demos
The following of videos have first been shown at SAPPHIRENOW + ASUG Orlando in May 2012 and are now available for external use.
- SAP® Disclosure Management 10.0, starter kit for U.S. GAAP
This 10 minute demonstration focuses on the regulatory filing to the U.S. SEC (United States Securities and Exchange Commission) and includes highlights on XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) tagging, generation of the 10-Q report and compliance with EFM (EDGAR® Filer Manual) rules. Click here to watch, share or embed this video (YouTube).
- SAP® Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 for SAP NetWeaver - powered by SAP HANA™, starter kit for IFRS
This series of four demonstrations shows how the starter kit now goes beyond the legal IFRS consolidation processing and has been complemented with new capabilities to manage Budget and Forecast reporting at the corporate level, including pre-packaged comparison reports between monthly actuals, budget and forecast. To watch, share or embed the video on Actuals click here, Corporate Budget click here, Corporate Forecast click here and Automated Statement of Cash Flows click here
(YouTube).
Thought Leadership Papers
The following subject matter expert papers can be shared with customers and partners to help accelerate and secure their implementations.
- M&A (Merger and Acquisition) series – Handle a loss of control
This new paper focuses on the loss of control in a subsidiary and is the second of a series of seven blogs dedicated to help deal with the most frequent consolidation M&A requirements with SAP® Financial Consolidation 10.0, starter kit for IFRS. Click here to access this new paper or click here for the full series on SAP® Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP Community Network).
- Amendments to IAS 1 and IAS 19 available within SAP® Financial Consolidation 10.0
As IFRS are constantly evolving, SAP ensures that regulatory evolutions are addressed in a timely fashion within our EPM applications. This paper describes how the new release of the IFRS starter kit now covers requirements included in the new and revised standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board in 2011. Click here to download the paper (SAP Community Network).
- Data Workflow and Consistency with SAP® Disclosure Management 10.0, starter kit for IFRS
Get insight on how the starter kit has been designed to streamline data workflow and maximize data consistency when used in combination with transactional and consolidation systems, in particular SAP® Planning and Consolidation and SAP® Financial Consolidation applications. Click here to download the paper (SAP Community Network).
Contact information
- Online demos: pierre-francois.tchakedjian@sap.com (disclosure) and bernd.land@sap.com (BPC)
- Throught leadership: fabienne.rojo@sap.com (M&A), patricia.meteil-dutartre@sap.com (IAS 1, IAS 19) and pierre-francois.tchakedjian@sap.com (disclosure)
Sincerely,
Stephane Neufcourt
Director, Enterprise Performance Management