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Period
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Business Process Documentation
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SAP Best Practices
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Contents
Period End Closing Activities .......................................................................................................... 5
1
Purpose ................................................................................................................................... 5
2
Structure Period End Closing Process .................................................................................... 5
3
Business Process Documentation for Period End Closing ..................................................... 6
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Period End Closing Activities .................................................................................................. 7
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Period End Closing Activities
1 Purpose
This building block provides a means to access, and the sequence of, the period end closing
steps related to SAP Best Practices.
The SAP Best Practices for Baseline package covers many different scope items with a variable
implementation approach. You can select certain scope items and implement different solution
scopes. Therefore the period end closing process cannot be fixed to specific scope items, since
it is not clear what scope items are available.
The solution for SAP Best Practices provides a flexible method for period end closing on a daily,
monthly, and yearly basis. You can select the required steps depending on the solution scope
selected.
This scope item documentation provides a method to assist in choosing the relevant steps for
your scope items. Specific period end closing steps are not described here.
2 Structure Period End Closing Process
Period end closing steps are closely related to scope items and applications. The steps are
mainly performed in the external financial accounting (FI) and controlling (CO) areas, but some
steps take place in other areas, for example, sales and distribution (SD), materials management
(MM), and production (PP). Steps must be performed in a certain sequence, so it is not usually
possible to complete all the steps in one area before starting the steps related to another area.
The SAP Best Practices for Baseline Package structures the period end closing in two sections:
Section 1:
The period end closing process steps are described in detail in specific Business Process
documents. These are application-oriented, and contain all the relevant closing steps for each
specific process. For example, the Business Process Documentation Period End Closing
Financial Accounting describes all the necessary steps that must be performed in the FI area.
These steps are described in a certain sequence determined by the application. Prerequisite
steps in other applications are not included.
Section 2:
The Business Process Documentation does not cover the correct sequence of all period end
closing steps in one solution. Therefore, an additional description is provided which contains all
the steps in a certain sequence. This sequence is determined by prerequisite steps that must be
completed before proceeding to the next step.
This additional description is delivered as a list that contains all the steps, a sequence number,
and a reference to the relevant Business Process Documentation, where the method used to
perform each step is described. If any step is to be performed, follow the corresponding
description in the Business Process Documentation.
With this procedure, you can adapt the period end closing steps to the chosen solution scope. If
any steps relate to Business Process Documentation outside the implemented scope, the step is
irrelevant and the next period end closing step can be performed.
Users executing period end closing should know the solution scope. Period end
closing is closely related to the business content and cannot be automatically
executed without business knowledge.
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3 Business Process Documentation for Period
End Closing
The Business Process Documentation for period end closing is provided within the Baseline
implementation. It is related to certain applications and delivered separately. Following you can
find an overview of Business Process documents that contain period end closing steps.
Business Process
Documentation Title
Number
(Scope item
ID)
Relevant Industry
Implementation
Recommendation
Period End Closing in
Financial Accounting
159
All
Mandatory
Asset Accounting
162
All
Mandatory
Overhead Cost
Controlling – Actual
184
All
Mandatory
Sales: Period End
Closing Operations
203
All
Mandatory
Internal Order Actual
767
Manufacturing /trade
Mandatory
Period End Closing
Service Orders
189
Service
Mandatory
Period End Closing
Projects
207
Service
Mandatory
Cost of Sales
Accounting
161
All
Optional
Activate Document
Splitting
165
All
Optional
Foreign Trade Export
Processing
118
Manufacturing/Trade
Optional
Standard Cost
Calculation
178
Manufacturing/Trade
Optional
Period End Closing
“General Plant”
181
Manufacturing/Trade
Optional
Inventory Valuation for
Year End Closing
182
Manufacturing/Trade
Optional
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Period End Closing Activities
Refer to the 224_Integrated_PeriodEnd_Closing_Activities_EN_DE.xls:
224_Integrated_Peri
odEnd_Closing_Activities_EN_DE.xls
Number
The number contains the sequence of the steps. All steps should be executed in the sequence
as provided by the number.
Process Category
All steps in one sequence that belong to an application are structured into period end closing
process categories. You can use the categories as additional information to find certain process
steps or to decide to include new steps.
Description
The description contains the process step. The same process step must be selected in the
referenced Business Process Documentation.
Transaction
The transactions assigned to the process steps are listed.
Application
The application areas are assigned.
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FI = External Financial Accounting

CO = Controlling

MM = Material Management (purchasing)

SD = Sales and Distribution

PP = Production

FI-AA = Asset Management
Industry
The step is assigned to the industry that is selected with the Baseline package installation. In
some cases the process steps are industry independent and must be executed for all industries.

All: step is relevant for manufacturing/trade and service

Service: step is only relevant for the service industry

Manuf: step is only relevant for manufacturing/trade
Reference Business Process Documentation
Here you can find the Business Process Documentation, which contains the detailed description
of the period end closing step. The Business Process Documentation contains a process step
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with the same text as the description of the period end closing check list. This step should be
executed in period end closing.
Building Block ID
This is the technical ID number of the Business Process Documentation.
Day/Month/Year
All period end closing steps are assigned to the period for which they are to be performed.
Closing steps can be done on daily basis, but also on monthly and yearly basis. The year-end
closing requires first the monthly closing of period 12 (December), so the year end closing also
includes all steps of the monthly closing.
SAP Menu
Here you can find the path of the transaction in the SAP ECC Menu.
NWBC Menu
Here you can find the path of the transaction in the NWBC Menu.
NWBC Business Role
Here you can find the relevant NWBC Business Role.
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