SAP ERP customers, take note: If you install SAP S/4HANA Finance but keep running your accounting practices as before, youll be missing out. With this guide to SAP S/4HANA Finances innovations, uncover the fundamental changes that can transform your finance organization. Youve heard about Universal Journal, real-time processes, and UI improvementsnow learn how these changes will actually impact your accounting practices. From the redesigned steering model and unified planning to consolidation and real-time close, see where new processes affect your business users and how system efficiencies benefit your bottom line.Highlights include:1) Universal Journal2) Local and global accounting3) Financial process optimization4) SAP Fiori and real-time data5) Key figures for operational reporting6) Real-time financial close7) Predictive accounting8) Unified planning model9) Asset accounting10) Cost object controlling and actual costing11) Group reporting12) Cash management

Janet Salmon is a regular speaker on Controlling at conferences, including ASUG, SAP Financials (U.S. and Europe), and Mastering SAP Financials (Australia) with high speaker ratings. Janet joined SAP in 1992, working first as a translator and then as a technical writer for product cost controlling. She began working as a product manager/solution manager for the product costing area in 1995 and gradually began covering profitability analysis and overhead controlling.