This document provides a list of 33 steps for month-end and year-end closing operations in SAP. The steps include reconciling subledgers to the general ledger, running depreciation, posting accruals and deferrals, closing posting periods for various modules like FI, CO, MM, and running reports to verify balances.
This document provides a list of 33 steps for month-end and year-end closing operations in SAP. The steps include reconciling subledgers to the general ledger, running depreciation, posting accruals and deferrals, closing posting periods for various modules like FI, CO, MM, and running reports to verify balances.
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Monthend and year end activities in sap modules
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Year End Closing Activities for MM, FI, ASSETS and CO
This document provides a list of 33 steps for month-end and year-end closing operations in SAP. The steps include reconciling subledgers to the general ledger, running depreciation, posting accruals and deferrals, closing posting periods for various modules like FI, CO, MM, and running reports to verify balances.
This document provides a list of 33 steps for month-end and year-end closing operations in SAP. The steps include reconciling subledgers to the general ledger, running depreciation, posting accruals and deferrals, closing posting periods for various modules like FI, CO, MM, and running reports to verify balances.
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The document outlines the various steps involved in the fiscal year end closing process for SAP including closing periods, carrying balances forward, and generating reports.
Steps include closing CO and FI posting periods, carrying balances forward for accounts, cost centers and internal orders, fixed asset year end closing, and reconciliation activities.
Activities include inventory balancing, purchase order closure, billing document checks, accrual/deferral reversals, and financial document reconciliations.
1 Execute Report for InterCompany Activity & Journal Entries
2 Open posting period for next yr
3 Run Business Area's Assignment report. 4 Review list of recurring journal entries 5 Execute Recurring Entries for A/R, A/P, G/L 6 Process Parked A/R, A/P, G/L accounting documents 7 Final Cutoff for the Maintenance of Fixed Asset- Add Transfer and Retire 8 Run Depreciation in Test Run and post 9 Verify Display Log for Depreciation Test Run 10 Capitalize AUC Assets if needed 11 Enter Payroll Data to SAP 12 Verify Depreciation Balances with GL balances 13 Post Depreciation 14 Execute Asset History Report, and retire assets if needed 15 Adjust specific depreciation areas if necessary 16 Reconcile AM subledger with GL 17 Check Bank Data 18 Review AR Open Items 19 Review AP Open Items 20 Execute Pending Invoices 21 Clear Open Item for GRIR, freight 22 Reconciliation of Financial Documents and transactional figures 23 Open new CO Posting Period 24 Compare current (cost estimates) with last current price (Moving Avg) 25 Update current cost price to material master price field. 26 Process Freight charges, Match SD freight to actual 27 Review Internal Order Postings 28 Settle All Orders 29 Verify All Post Goods Issue have been Invoiced (Billing Due List) 30 Review SD Billng Doc from prior mth that have not yet been released to accounting 31 Reconciliation of MM movements in Transit Intra-SAP to NonSAP 32 Reconcile PI Inventory with SAP 33 Perform Manual Adjustment if needed 34 Verify balance of the GR/IR account 35 Post Accruals and Deferrals 36 Clearing of Cancelled Documents 37 Check Profitability Segment Adjustment 38 Aging Report-Reconcile GL balances with subledger balances AP 39 Check the check run numbers 40 Bank reconciliation Data 41 Enter Tax Journal Entry 42 Reconcile GL balances with subledger balances AR/MM/AP 43 Display Balance Sheet Adjustments 44 Post Balance Sheet Adjustments 45 Post Foreign Currency Valuation (foreign exchange) 46 Check generic cost centers for posting with wrong accounts 47 Correct wrong postings on generic cost centers 48 Check Validation dates for Cost Centers, Cost Elements, CO area 49 Check COGI--for both month end and year end 50 Doubtful receiviables 51 Verify In-transist Inventory 52 Reconcile PA to G/L 53 Post Cost Centre Assessments and Distributions 54 Run CO-FI Reconciliation to balance 55 Run BW reports P&L and Balance Sheet 56 Maintain CO yr variant 57 Fiscal Yr Balance carryforward AP/AR/AM 58 Fiscal Yr Balance carryforward CO 59 Fiscal Yr balance carryforward FI 60 Fiscal Yr balance carryforward PCA 61 Set Document number ranges - FI 62 Set Document number ranges AP/AR 63 Generate Financial statement Reports 64 Change Fiscal Year For Assets 65 Year end Closing-- Asset Accounting--final for year end 66 Close CO Posting Period 67 Close Prior A/R Posting Period 68 Close Prior A/P Posting Period 69 Close Prior MM Posting Period 70 Reverse accruals and deferrals for the new month 71 Reconciliation of Financial Documents from old fiscal year and new fiscal year 72 Load Balances, Budget Data for Cost centers, sales 73 Update Retained Earning Account , balance carry fwd
Month End and Year End Closing Operations Month End Closing Operations Module Sr. No. Process Description T Code / Menu-path Periodicity(D/W/M) Person Responsible / Location MM 1 Inventory balance Programm ZBIL Monthly Logistic MM 2 Inventory Revaluation MR22 Logistics > Materials Management > Valuation > Change in Material Price > Change Material Prices Monthly Corporate Accounts MM 3 Physical Inventory Differences-Post , after Physical counting MI07 - Logistics > Materials Management > Physical Inventory > Difference > Post (+ MI01 MI04 ) Monthly Depot/corporate accounts after prior approval from head of finance MM 4 PO Closure ME22N - Logistics > Materials Management > Purchasing > Purchase Order > Change Monthly Purchase dept SD 5 Check Billing Due List for the last days in the month VF04 - * *Logistics > Sales and Distribution > Billing > Billing Document > Process Billing Due List Monthly Logtistics/Sales Admin. SD 6 General check of SD billing flows of Goods Issues without invoices VL06F - Information Systems > General Report Selection > Sales and Distribution >Shipping > Delivery Monitor Monthly Logtistics/Sales Admin. FI 7 General account manual FI postings FB50 / KE21N Monthly Corporate Accounts SD 8 Release SD billing to Accounting VFX3 - Logistics > Sales and Distribution > Billing > Billing Document > Blocked Billing Docs Monthly Logtistics/Sales Admin. COPA 9 Reconciliation between CO/FI/SD KEAT Accounting > Controlling > Profitability Analysis > Tools > Monthly Reporting Analyze Value Flows FI & COPA 10 Invoicing Regularisation of deliveries non invoiced FB50 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Document Entry -> FB50 - Enter G/L Account Document Monthly Reporting FI-CO-SD 11 Ensure Return sale order -credit memo and transfer posting tally KE24/MB51 Monthly Sales Admin/Reporting/Accounts Payroll 12 Running of payroll interface NON STANDARD Monthly IT/Corporate Accounts MM 13 Open next MM Period MMPV Logistics > Material Managements > Material Master > Other > Close Period Monthly Manual orAutomated back ground job FI 14 Open FI Posting Periods OB52 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Environment -> Current Settings -> S_ALR_87003642 - Open and Close Posting Periods Monthly Corporate Accounts CO/IM 15 Settlement of Investment Orders to AUC KO8G Accounting > Controlling > Internal Orders > Period-End Closing > Single Functions > Settlement > KO8G Collective Processing Monthly Reporting /Corporate Accounts CO/IM 16 Settlement of Investment Orders to Fixed Assets KO8G Accounting -> Investment Management -> Internal Orders ->Period-End Closing->Single Functions > Settlement > KO8G - Collective Processing Monthly Reporting/Corporate Accounts FI 17 Depreciation Run AFAB -Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> Fixed Assets -> Periodic Processing -> Depreciation Run -> AFAB - Execute Monthly Reporting/Corporate Accounts FI 18 Maintain Exchange Rates OB08 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Environment -> Current Settings -> S_BCE_68000174 - Enter interface MEDECO Translation Rates FI 19 Post Accrual / Deferral Entries FBS1 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Periodic Processing -> Closing - > Valuate -> FBS1 - Enter Accrual/Deferral Doc. Monthly Corporate Accounts FI 20 Post Recurring Entries F.14 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Periodic Processing -> Recurring Entries -> F.14 - Execute Depends on Nature of entry and target accrual dates Corporate Accounts FI 21 Reverse Accrual / Deferral Entries F.81 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Periodic Processing -> Closing - > Valuate -> F.81 - Reverse Accrual/Deferral Document Monthly Corporate Accounts FI 22 Receivables and Payables Regroupements F101 Accounting -> Accounts Receivables -> Periodic Processing -> Closing -> Regroup -> F101 - Receivables/payables Monthly Corporate Accounts FI 23 GR/IR Clearing F.13 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Periodic Processing -> Automatic Clearing -> F.13 - Without Specification of Clearing Currency Monthly Corporate Accounts FI 24 Revaluation of Foreign Currency Balances F.05 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Periodic Processing -> Closing - > Valuate -> F.05 - Foreign Currency Valuation Monthly/Weekly Corporate Accounts COCCA 25 Correction of FI documents for wrong cost centre entries KB61 Accounting > Controlling > Cost Center Accounting > Actual Postings > KB61 Repost Line Items Weekly/Monthly CO 26 Period close in CO OKP1 Accounting > Controlling > Profitability Analysis > Actual Posting > Period End Closing > Transfer Monthly Reporting Cost Center costs > Assessment CO-FI 27 CO-FI Reco S_ALR_87013603 Accounting > Controlling > Cost Element Accounting > Information System > Reports for Cost and Revenue Element Acc > Reconciliation > CO/FI Reconciliation in CoCd Currency Weekly/Monthly Reporting COPA 28 CO - PA assessment KEU5 Accounting > Controlling > Profitability Analysis > Actual Posting > Period End Closing > Transfer Cost Center costs > Assessment Monthly Reporting COPA 29 Reconciliation between CO - CCA - COPA GR55 ZTL8 Accounting > Controlling > Cost Center Accounting > Information System > Tools > Report Painter > Report Writer > Report Group ZTL8 > Execute Monthly Reporting COPA 30 RES1 Report execution and validation KE30 Accounting > Controlling > Profitability Analysis > Information System > Execute Report D/W/M Reporting FI 31 Balance Audit Trail S_ALR_87100205 - General Ledger >Periodic Processing > Closing > Document > Balance Audit Trail > All Accounts > S_ALR_87100205 - General Ledger from the Document File Monthly Corporate Accounts FI 32 Compact Journal S_ALR_87012289 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Periodic Processing ->Closing > Report > General Ledger Reports >Document > General > Compact Document Journal Monthly Corporate Accounts FI 33 VAT Liability F.38 General Ledger >Periodic Processing > Closing > Report > F.38 - Transfer Deferred Tax Monthly Corporate Accounts FI 34 VAT Liability F-32 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Monthly Corporate Accounts Document Entry -> F-02 - General Posting FI 35 Analyse GR / IR a/c to crystalise and close the liability in the GR / IR a/c to chase up invoices FBL3N / F.13 (TEST run and without tick " only docs which can be cleared" Monthly Corporate Accounts FI 34 Review and download the p& l and balance sheet S_ALR_87012284 Ledger - Reporting -> Information System -> General Ledger Reports > Balance Sheet/ Profit and Loss Statement / Cash Flow ->General > Actual/Actual Comparisons - >S_ALR_87012284 Monthly Corporate Accounts/ Reporting IM 35 Investment Management Report S_ALR_87013019 Accounting -> Investment Management -> Internal Orders ->Information System ->Reports for Internal Orders ->More Reports S_ALR_87013019 S_ALR_87012816 , S_ALR_87012824 , S_ALR_87012993 , S_ALR_87012994 : Monthly Reporting IM 36 Investment Management Report AW01N Accounting > Investment Management > Fixed Assets >Asset > AW01N Asset Explorer D/W/M Reporting
Module Sr. Process T Code / Menu-path Preceding Subsequent Periodicity(D/W/M) Person No. Description Dependency Process Impacted Responsible / Location FI 1 Open FI Posting Periods OB52 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Environment -> Current Settings -> S_ALR_87003642 - Open and Close Posting Periods Open period 13 close Normal periods 1 to 12 initially. Open Special Period 13 , only for non sales accounts ( exclude accounts 7*) Allows all specific en year postings Annual Corporate Accounts FI 2 End year Manual FI Postings FB50 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Document Entry -> FB50 - Enter G/L Account Document All specific postings for regularisation involving generation of and FI and non sales imapct -commissions on sales Annual Corporate Accounts FI 3 Fiscal Year Change for Fixed Assets AJRW Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> Fixed Assets -> Periodic Processing -> AJRW - Fiscal Year Change None 1/Calcul evaluation on next period 2/Posting to Assets Accounting in next Fiscal Year 3/reporting Budget Annual Corporate Accounts FI 4 Open FI Posting Periods OB52 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Environment -> Current Settings -> S_ALR_87003642 - Open and Close Posting Periods Close Special Period 13 to 16 to be closed after full & complete finalisation. of trial balance. All processing involving generation of and FI Document not allowed in next posting period. Annual Corporate Accounts FI 5 Fixed Assets Year-End Closing AJAB Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> Fixed Assets -> Periodic Processing -> Year-End Closing -> AJAB - Execute After END closing period 13 =>Completion of Capitalization Posting to Previous Fiscal Year can not be continued after the year- end closing Annual Corporate Accounts Activities and Posting of Final Depreciation Run for the Fiscal Year. FI 6 Account Reconciliation for Fixed Assets ABST2 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> Fixed Assets -> Periodic Processing -> Year-End Closing -> ABST2 - Account Reconciliation After END closing period 13 => Completion of Capitalisation Activities and Posting of Final Depreciation Run for the Fiscal Year. Rectification of reported errors on account of Capitalisation or depreciation Annual Corporate Accounts FI 7 Vendors & Customers F.07 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> Accounts Payable -> Periodic Processing -> Closing -> Carrying Forward -> F.07 - Balance Carry Forward Scrutiny and closing of all Vendor & Customer accounts Annual Corporate Accounts FI 8 Balance Sheet GL F.16 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Periodic Processing -> Closing -> Carrying Forward -> F.16 - Balance Carry Forward Scrutiny and closing of all GL Balance Sheet accounts Annual Corporate Accounts FI 9 P & L Items F.16 Accounting -> Financial Accounting-> General Ledger -> Periodic Processing -> Closing -> Carrying Forward -> F.16 - Balance Carry Forward Scrutiny and closing of all GL P & L accounts Annual Corporate Accounts CO 10 Period close in CO OKP1 Accounting > Controlling > Profitability Analysis > Actual Posting > Period End Closing > Transfer Cost Center costs > Assessment FI closing done and FI period is closed for last month. CO process and assessment cycle run,RES1 reporting Annual Reporting CO-IM 11 Carry forward KOCF Budgetory Annual Reporting of open commitments for investment Accounting > Controlling >Internal Orders > Year- End Closing > Commitment Carryforward control on investment in next year COCCA 12 Checking overhead report(before and after assessment run) S_ALR_87013611 , S_ALR_87013634 , S_ALR_87013635 , S_ALR_87013625 MIS reporting ???? Annual Reporting FI 13 Review and download the p& l and balance sheet S_ALR_87012284 Ledger - Reporting -> Information System -> General Ledger Reports > Balance Sheet/ Profit and Loss Statement / Cash Flow ->General > Actual/Actual Comparisons - >S_ALR_87012284 Scrutinise & Download P& L and Balance Sheet Year end Annual Corporate Accounts IM 14 Investment Management Report _ALR_87013019 List: Budget/Actual/Commit: Accounting -> Investment Management -> Internal Orders ->Information System ->Reports for Internal Orders ->More Reports : S_ALR_87012816 , S_ALR_87012824 , S_ALR_87012993 , S_ALR_87012994 : Special FI periods closed Reporting Annual Reporting
As MM consultant
As a year end activity maintainance of GR/IR clearing a/c is usualy taken care by FI consultant.
From MM point of view note down the followings 1)check for open POs which are pending for GR(which are supposed to be posted in current year) 2)check for open Physical inventory docs 3)Check for Subcontracting challans pending 4)make sure all goods movements are completed in current year. 5)For excise number ranges-there is a list objects for which you need to maintain the number ranges
Also Run T Code MI22
Also do Number Maintainence for documents with excise documents