The process of managing purchase order accruals, which involves recording and deferring costs and payments for goods and services in SAP S/4HANA 1909, was challenging before the introduction of S/4HANA Accruals Management. This tool helps you automate and streamline the process of accruals accounting. It enables you to create, post, and monitor accruals in real time, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Accruals refer to invoicing expenses in future periods, while deferrals involve delaying the recognition of revenues or expenses until a more appropriate time.
In this pdf document, you will get a brief introduction to accruals in SAP, overview of purchase order accruals process and detailed transactional flow with screenshots in SAP S/4HANA of following processes;

• Create Purchase Order – ME21N
• Display Accrual Objects – POACTREE03
• Edit Time Intervals for Accruals Reviews and Approvals -FACRATIVL
• Propose Periodic Amounts – ACEPROPOSALRUN
• Review Purchase Order Accruals – Purchase Order Owners – FACRARVWBU
• Review Periodic Accruals – Controllers – FACRARVWCO
• Periodic Posting Run – ACEPOSTINGRUN
• Display Accrual Objects – POACTREE03
• Supplier Invoice – MIRO
• Display Accrual Objects – POACTREE03

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The SAP S/4HANA Profitability Analysis Configuration Guide [124 pages PDF] provides information on how to configure SAP S/4HANA Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). CO-PA is a module in SAP S/4HANA that allows you to analyze profitability by segment. Segments can be defined by product, customer, sales organization, or any other criteria that is relevant to your business.

The structure of this document is divided into the following areas:

Organizational structures: This area covers the configuration of organizational structures, such as company codes, profit centers, and cost centers.
Master data: This area covers the configuration of master data, such as products, customers, and sales orders.
Value fields: This area covers the configuration of value fields, which are used to define the segments that you will analyze in CO-PA.
Valuation: This area covers the configuration of valuation, which is the process of assigning costs and revenues to segments.
Reporting: This area covers the configuration of reporting, which is the process of generating reports that show the profitability of your business by segment.

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In this presentation document on SAP Financials closing, you will learn required steps of the Period End Monthly/Yearly Closing procedures and define the primary roles and responsibilities associated with it.

• Summarize the Period End Monthly/Yearly Closing process
• Identify the steps for reconciling GL accounts
• Describe the GR/IR Clearing Reconciliation process
• List the steps to Perform Month-End/Year-End Closing

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