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1. FI
APAP
ARARAM
GLGL
CON
Special
Ledger

2. G/L Reporting
Legal or external
reporting
• Balance sheet
• Income Statement
• Statement of
Financial Position

3. Stockholders
Bankers, Lenders
IRS, Taxing Authority
External Auditors
SEC
External Accounting
Balance Sheet
Profit &
Loss
Financial Position

4. COMPONENT
Cost Center Acctg - CO-CCA
Internal Orders CO-OPA
Projects - PS
Product Costing - CO-PC
Activity Based Costing
Profitability Analysis-CO-PA
Profit Center Acctg-EC-PCA
Executive Info. System-EC-EIS
VIEW
Costs
Costs
Costs
Costs
Costs
Profits
Profits
Any data
ROLE
Cost Tracking
Small Projects
Large Projects
Product Costing
Cost Management
Margin by multi-cuts
Profit & Loss Repsons.
Cross-module reports

5. Internal management reporting
Reports by cost centers or other
cost “objects” and cost elements
Cost centers
Orders and Projects
Budget/plan
Actual vs. plan
CO Reporting

6. Internal Accounting
Departmental Expense
Report
Salaries 10,000
Overhead 8,000
Other 5,000
Total 23,000
Department
Managers
ControllersExecutives
Senior Management

7. COFI
Legal or external reporting
Reports by accounts
Balance Sheet
Income Statement
Internal management
reporting
Reports by cost centers and
cost elements
Cost Center Reports

8. FI/CO Organizational Structures
Client
Company
Chart of Accounts
Company Code
Business Area
Credit Control Area
Controlling Area

9. Client
Highest hierarchical level in an SAP system
A complete database containing all the tables
necessary for creating a fully integrated system
Master records are created at the client level

10. Company
Consolidated financial statements are created at
the company level
A company can include one or more company
codes
All company codes must use the same chart of
accounts and fiscal year

11. Chart of Accounts
A listing of the accounts
A chart of accounts must be assigned to every
company code
Several company codes can use the same chart of
accounts
 A different chart of accounts can be used if a different
grouping of the chart of accounts is required

12. Co code
1000
Co code
2000
Co code
3000
Co code
4000
Co code
5000
US CHART OF
ACCOUNTS
GERMAN
CHART OF
ACCOUNTS
CLIENT

13. Company Code
A required structure
A legally independent entity
The smallest organizational unit for which
accounting can be carried out
 The level where business transactions are processed
 The level where accounts are managed
 The level where legal individual financial statements, such
as the balance sheet and the profit and loss statement, are
created
A BALANCED SET OF BOOKS

14. Credit Control Area
An organizational unit or area of responsibility
created to control customer credit limits
A company code is assigned to one and only one
credit control area
Multiple company codes can be assigned to one
credit control area

15. Controlling Area
An organizational unit defining the company's
cost/ managerial accounting operations
A company code is assigned to one and only one
controlling area
A controlling area can have multiple company
codes assigned to it
This allows cross company cost allocations and
reporting

16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
DECEMBER
Fiscal Year VariantFiscal Year Variant
•Determines the fiscal year
•Calendar year or
non-calendar year
•Allows the use of special
periods to aid year-end
closing
•Is assigned to a company
code

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