Accelerated Financial Closing with SAP

Navigate the complex financial close process and learn how to address regulatory requirements, manage disclosure management, and report results to key stakeholders. Written for business process owners, finance directors, and managers, this book will teach you how to optimize the financial close process within your organization. Develop a single financial close workflow with this end-to-end overview and close your books faster!

* Close process: from financial accounting to corporate entity and closing
* SAP financial solutions: integration of FI, CO, and Disclosure Management
* Workflow, regulatory, and reporting requirements

A Financial Close Action Plan
Learn how to build a business case, create a clear action plan for your financial close process, and avoid common barriers.

Real Time Visibility
Visualize your financial close success and identify issues with real-time analysis and the Financial Closing cockpit.

Reporting
Proactively address disclosure management and weather regulatory change with finesse and flexibility.

* General Ledger close
* Controlling close
* Inventory management
* Intercompany reconcilliation
* Process governance
* Financial consolidation
* Disclosure management
* Financial reporting
* Entity close management

Birgit Starmanns, SAP Marketing, EPM and Finance solutions. is a Senior Director of Marketing at SAP for EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) and Finance solutions. She has over 20 years of SAP experience across solution marketing, solution management and strategic customer communities with SAP, and management consulting organizations including Price Waterhouse where she implemented SAP s financial solutions for large and medium enterprises. Birgit holds a BA and MBA from the College of William and Mary.

Elizabeth Milne has over 14 years of experience improving the software solutions for multi-national, multi-billion dollar organizations. Her finance career began working at Walt Disney then Warner Bros in the areas of consolidation, budgeting, and financial reporting. She subsequently moved to the software industry and has held positions including implementation consultant & manager, account executive, pre-sales consultant & working as part of the solution management team at SAP, Business Objects and Cartesis. In 2008 she graduated with an Executive MBA from Northwestern University s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

James Fisher is Vice President, SAP Marketing, Enterprise Performance Management and Finance Solutions. James has over 15 years of experience in the enterprise group reporting, compliance and performance management industry; prior to his role at SAPl he held global and EMEA marketing and consulting roles at BusinessObjects, Pricewaterhouse-Coopers and KPMG.