Organizational Flexibility in Financial Accounting (4PG)

A management decision generally triggers a change to the profit center structure. The current solution focuses on the scope of the profit center time-dependent reassignment in project-based scenarios in Professional Services. You can define the profit center reassignment for the objects WBS elements for billing. The objects affected by the reorganization are reassigned and their balances are reposted to the new organizational entities.

The solution supports the reassignment of profit centers at a key date (effective date).

The solution offers the simulation of an organizational change. Analytics capabilities are provided for the assessment of the completeness of the object list and the profit center reassignment status, preview or review of the transfer posting and its effect on financial KPIs, and log checking for the steps performed.

Key Process Steps Covered

• Create organizational change
• Identify objects affected by an organizational change
• Assign objects - List views
• Simulate an organizational change
• Analyze the impact on master data and profit center balances
• Activate the organizational change
• Process the organizational change
• Complete the organizational change

Benefits

• Conduct organizational structure change flexibly in the profit center (financial accounting organization entity)
• Reduce finance cost by supporting an organization's ability to perform changes in a timely manner
• Automate master data update and account balance postings to reduce manual workload and ensure greater accuracy
• React easily and quickly to changed internal and external situations
• Adjust the internal controlling structure and the external reporting structure with effectiveness and efficiency

Additional Information

• This scope item is excluded from the default activation

This scope item is used if a customer's finance organization undergoes frequent changes (such as dividing up, combining, and replacing profit centers). For profit center reassignment, the current solution focuses on project-based scenarios for customer projects in Professional Services. This scope item is non-standard to provide activation options for the customer.

Where is Organizational Flexibility in Financial Accounting(4PG) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

• As a support function of Accounting and Financial Close within Finance Scope Item Group

Process flow of Organizational Flexibility in Financial Accounting (4PG)

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