Charting Your Course 2015: Paul Ovigele on SAP Financials
Paul Ovigele, CEO of Ovigele Consulting, joins SAPinsider's Ken Murphy to discuss the year in SAP Financials. Ovigele offers his perspective on what's important to know about SAP Simple Finance. Topics...
View ArticleCharting Your Course in 2014: SAP ERP Financials
In this podcast, featured speaker and author Paul Ovigele reviews the major 2013 trends in SAP ERP Financials, and what SAP finance users should be looking for in 2014.Transcript of the...
View ArticleAn SAPinsider Online Chat with Paul Ovigele
KM: Hi this is Ken Murphy with SAPinsider, and I’m pleased to be joined by SAPexperts advisor Paul Ovigele. Paul has been a popular speaker at the SAPinsider Financials conferences, and he’s a favorite...
View ArticleDisplaying Prior Year Balances after a New GL Migration
By now, everyone knows about the New GL, which is now called the “SAP General Ledger”. By the way, who else finds the term “SAP General Ledger” confusing, since this term could also refer to the...
View ArticleWhat EHP5 means to your Finance team: Q&A with SAP financials expert Paul...
EHP 5 delivers a lot of new functionality – but what will bring the biggest improvements for your Financials team?I was pleased to have SAP financials expert and Financials 2012 speaker Paul Ovigele...
View ArticlePodcast: Paul Ovigele Discusses Cost-of-Sales Reporting and Financial...
In a brief interview with Andrea Haynes, group editor of SAPexperts, Paul Ovigele, a Financials Expert advisor and author of the SAP PRESS book 100 Things You Should Know About Financial Accounting...
View ArticleEnsuring That the Appropriate G/L accounts are Entered in Purchase Orders
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingWhen purchase orders are entered in the standard SAP system, the general ledger account that is posted to is derived in the below ways:(1) If it is a purchase of...
View ArticleAssigning Personnel Numbers to Vendor Accounts
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIf you use the Travel Management module, then you probably know that in order for employee expenses to be posted to financial accounting, the personnel numbers of the...
View ArticleCurrency Translation for Cost Center Reports
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe cost center reports in SAP are normally displayed in Controlling Area currency. This means that if you have several company codes that have different currencies but...
View ArticleUsing Translation Keys in Drilldown Reports (Part 2)
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThis is a continuation of my previous blog, in which I describe how you can use translation keys for foreign currency conversion in drilldown reports. This functionality...
View ArticleUsing Translation Keys in Drilldown Reports
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingDrilldown reports have become more widespread with the latest versions of SAP ERP. What used to be available only for management reports in the Controlling Profitability...
View ArticleUnderstanding Bank Statement Posting Rules
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe posting rules for Bank Statement processing have been around for over a decade, but I find that there are still a lot of people (consultants and end-users alike)...
View ArticleSetting a Tolerance Limit when Maintaining the GR/IR Account
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn most companies the Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt (GR/IR) clearing account is the most difficult to manage due to the number of lines that are posted to it. For this...
View ArticleUploading Additive Costs En Masse
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingAdditive costs are extra costs that are added to a material’s cost estimate which are not calculated through the system. They are used in addition to the costs that are...
View ArticlePosting Planned Delivery Costs to a Separate Vendor
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingDelivery costs such as freight, customs, duty, and so on, can be planned on a purchase order so that an accrual is created when that order is goods received. This...
View ArticleInheriting Characteristic Values in CO-PA
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog, I describe how you can derive a partner function from the header or line item level of a sales order. The CO-PA characteristic that is used as a...
View ArticleDeriving Partner Functions Correctly in CO-PA
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingAn area which normally causes confusion in CO-PA is where a derivation needs to be made for a partner function. For those who do not know what a partner function is, it...
View ArticleSetting up Statistical Orders for Project Monitoring
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThere are basically two main ways of tracking projects in SAP – by using WBS Elements in the Project System (PS) module, and using internal orders in the Controlling...
View ArticleAssigning SAP Queries to Transaction Codes
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingSAP Queries can be accessed directly by going to transaction SQ01 and executing the relevant query. Some companies, however, do not like to give users access to this...
View ArticleReconciling CO-PA with Financial Accounting (Part 2)
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingA few of the areas that you can expect to see reconciliation differences between the Financial Accounting (FI) module and the Controlling Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)...
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