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General Ledger Account settings for the New Deferred Tax Program

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingDeferred tax is a requirement in certain countries, whereby the Value Added Tax (VAT) is not applied to an invoice until a certain trigger-point, which is usually at the...

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Reversing CO-PA documents

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe Controlling Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) module is one that inherits most of its actual data from other modules. Transactions which are made from modules such as...

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Making Subsequent postings to CO-PA from other Modules

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog, titled “Reversing CO-PA Documents” I wrote about how you can cancel documents in the CO-PA module alone. This is normally needed either when you...

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Understanding the 'Not Distributed" and "Not Included" lines in the Material...

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingMaterial Ledger’s actual costing functionality is great tool for determining the actual cost of a material on a periodic basis. For those of you who use it, you probably...

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Using the Value Flow monitor to analyze Material Ledger differences

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog, I spoke about the possible causes of the “Not Distributed” and “Not Included” lines in the material ledger. A great tool that can be used to analyze...

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How to Make Profit Center Adjustments in the New General Ledger

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingA question that has been posed to me a few times is how one makes profit center adjustments when New G/L has been activated. For example when certain postings have been...

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Using Assessment and Distribution Cycles in the New General Ledger

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingWhen you hear the term “Assessment” or “Distribution” in SAP, you usually think of the allocations that are made in the Controlling module, typically between cost...

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Let the System Calculate your Activity Rates Automatically

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe decision to enter activity rates manually or let the system calculate them, normally varies in different organizations. Some users prefer calculating the rate...

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Setting up Automatic Activity Price Calculation

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog “Let the system calculate Your Activity rates Automatically”, I discussed the options available for calculating activity rates in the system and the...

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Transporting Overhead Rates

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingProduction overhead rates can be used to calculate the cost center costs that are not reflected in the activity rates. They can be calculated on a percentage or quantity...

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Valuated Goods receipt with Multiple Account Assignment

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingEnabling ‘multiple account assignment’ functionality is very useful as it enables you to split an individual line on a purchase order or purchase requisition into...

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Revamping the format of your classical reports

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingClassical reports are the rigid two-dimensional reports, which cannot be sorted, filtered, subtotaled or easily downloaded. Basically, what you see is what you get...

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Configuring a Vendor Account for Automatic VAT Transfer Postings

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe input and output VAT taxes are set up in transaction FTXP and hold the rates that will be applied to the respective documents. The input tax code can be applied on...

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Activating Profitability Analysis for Sales Orders

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingControlling Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) allows you to analyze the profitability of your organization according to various internal and external characteristics. For...

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Setting up HST Tax for Canada

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingHarmonized Sales Tax (HST) was made effective for certain Canadian Provinces on July 1st 2010. This tax is a combination of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Provincial...

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Posting Travel Expenses Automatically to Financial Accounting

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe travel management module allows you to record your travel expenses in the SAP system as “Trips”, and with the proper approval, allow them to be settled to the...

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Making Partial Payments using the Automatic Payment Program

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingWhen using the automatic payment program to make payments to vendors, the normal procedure is for the system to select all the vendor items that you have set in your...

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Using Profit Center Substitutions with SAP General Ledger

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingEver since profit center accounting has been integrated with the SAP General Ledger, there has been some confusion about which classic PCA transactions can still be...

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What's changed in profit center accounting with SAP General Ledger?

I recently moderated a web forum with Reporting & Analytics 2011 speaker Paul Ovigele on October 13 on changes that have come about with profit center accounting and the SAP General Ledger. For the...

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What Should the Segment Field be used for in the SAP General Ledger?

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingSo you are considering using the SAP General Ledger (formerly known as the New General Ledger, or New G/L) and you want to know how some of the new characteristics such...

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Secondary Cost Element Reporting in SAP General Ledger PCA

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingDuring my live Q&A session on last week “What’s changed in Profit Center Accounting with SAP General Ledger?”, I was asked a great question by two of the attendees...

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Excluding Specific Cost Centers from Cost Center Reports

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe cost center accounting module has several great reports that can be used to analyze the plan, target and actual costs, broken down by cost elements in a particular...

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Integrating Secondary Cost Element Planning in SAP General Ledger

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog, titled “Secondary Cost Element Reporting in SAP General Ledger PCA” I discussed how you could run reports in the SAP General Ledger which include...

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Passive document splitting in the SAP General Ledger

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my upcoming session “Accelerate local and global financial closes and period-end reports with improved integration between profit center accounting and the general...

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Using Drilldown Reports with the SAP General Ledger

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingOne of the topics that I will be covering at the Reporting and Analytics Conference is on the use of drilldown reports to enhance your financial statement reporting....

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Defining Business Transaction Variants in the SAP General Ledger

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingDuring my session “Accelerate local and global financial closes and period-end reports with improved integration between profit center accounting and the general ledger”...

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Using WBS Element as a Document Splitting Characteristic

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ReportingA question that came up both during my Q&A session last month and my presentation in the Reporting & Analytics conference concerned the use of characteristics...

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Setting up Real-time Integration of EC-CS and the General Ledger (Part 1)

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIf you plan to consolidate your financial reports within the SAP ERP system, the only option that you have is to use the Enterprise Controlling Consolidation System...

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Setting up Real-time Integration of EC-CS and the General Ledger (Part 2)

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog, I described one of the steps needed to perform real-time integration between the Enterprise Controlling Consolidation (EC-CS) module and the general...

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Reconciling CO-PA with Financial Accounting (Part 1)

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingOne of the biggest issues that accountants have with the Controlling Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) module, is that is not easy to reconcile it with the Financial...

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Reconciling 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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Assigning 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...

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Setting 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...

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Deriving 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...

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Inheriting 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...

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Posting 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...

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Uploading 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...

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Setting 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...

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Understanding 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)...

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Using 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...

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Using 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...

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Currency 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...

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Assigning 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...

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Ensuring 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...

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Podcast: 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...

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What 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...

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Displaying 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...

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An 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...

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Charting 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...

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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...

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