SAP FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION 10.

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STARTER KIT FOR IFRS SP3
Simplified Configuration Description

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Contents
Chapter 1

Foreword .................................................................................................................................. 4

Chapter 2

Data Collection ........................................................................................................................ 5

Data Entry Format ..................................................................................................................... 5
Data Package Configuration ..................................................................................................... 6
Data Entry Principles ................................................................................................................ 6
Data Package Validation ........................................................................................................... 8

Chapter 3

Consolidation Process ......................................................................................................... 10

Consolidation Definition .......................................................................................................... 10
Consolidation Processing ....................................................................................................... 10
Configured Automatic Entries ................................................................................................. 11

Chapter 4

Analysis Process .................................................................................................................. 12

Publishable Financial Statements ........................................................................................... 12
Monitoring and Controlling the Consolidation Process ........................................................... 12
Analysis and Audit Trail .......................................................................................................... 14

Chapter 5

IFRS Adoption ....................................................................................................................... 17

Data Collection ........................................................................................................................ 17
Analysis and Audit Trail .......................................................................................................... 17

Chapter 6

Retrieval of Financial Statements ....................................................................................... 19

Statement of Financial Position .............................................................................................. 19
Statement of Financial Position (continued) ........................................................................... 20
Income Statement ................................................................................................................... 21
Statement of Other Comprehensive Income .......................................................................... 22
Statement of Cash Flows ........................................................................................................ 23
Statement of Changes in Equity ............................................................................................. 25

Foreword

Foreword

The starter kit for IFRS is a pre-configuration of SAP Financial Consolidation. It is pre-configured with all
reports, controls and rules for performing, validating and publishing a statutory consolidation in accordance
with IFRS standards.
Adopting IFRS is one of the most fundamental challenges that companies in many countries will have to
deal with over the next few years. The starter kit for IFRS includes dedicated data entry and analysis
reports to help companies manage IFRS adoption.

Data Collection

Data Collection
Data Entry Format
Account Typology
The chart of accounts of the starter kit for IFRS is based on the IFRS Taxonomy. This chart of accounts
enables financial statements to be presented following the requirements of IAS 1:
Assets and liabilities are classified according to the current/non-current distinction.
In the income statement, expenses are classified by function.
This chart of accounts is easy to customize according to the group's requirements.

The chart of accounts is presented in appendix 1.

Naming Convention for Accounts

For financial accounts, the first letter of the code enables you to identify the accounting class: A for asset, E
for equity, L for liabilities and P for profit and loss (net income). The first letter for subtotal accounts is T.

EXAMPLE:

Subtotal

Account

Property, plant end equipment

Code
TA110

Lands and buildings

A1110

Lands and buildings, Depreciation

A1111

Data Collection

Data Package Configuration

The data package is available in English, German and French. It groups together schedules that are used
for entering and retrieving data at the reporting unit level .
Three types of schedules exist:

Summary schedules, used to guide the data entry and control data

Data entry schedules that are grouped into books by type of information: balances, securities and
shareholdings, movement analysis for balance sheet items, intercompany transactions

Data retrieval schedules: Financial statements, flow balances, control statements

EXAMPLE: Package contents

Data Entry Principles

Sign of Indicators
Assets are entered as positive amounts except for amortization and depreciation of assets. These are
entered as negative amounts.
Liabilities and Equity are entered as positive amounts.
Expenses are entered as negative amounts and income figures as positive amounts.
When the schedule structure allows it, signs are pre-entered to facilitate data entry.

Data Collection

Order of Package Data Entry

A step-by-step approach for entering data is configured in the package thanks to its architecture and the
links that have been created between the schedules.
The steps are as follows:
1. Enter (manually or importing) the closing balance (balance sheet and income statement)
2. Enter the analysis of securities and shareholding
3. Enter the period movements of the balance sheet items (acquisition, disposal, etc.)
4. Enter intercompany breakdown (reciprocal operations, Internal gains and losses on disposal of
assets, dividends, internal provisions)

Package summaries

Data entry schedules

Financial Statements (Data retrieval)

Control schedules (Data retrieval)
Adjustments to IFRS data entry/control

Data entry for equity method companies

Breakdown by Flow
Flow entries allow you to identify variations in the balance sheet between the opening and closing balance
and therefore automatically generate the Statement of Cash Flows.
The flows available in the package may be classified into two categories:

Flows for current transactions (purchase, increase in depreciation, fair value, etc.)

Flows for special transactions (changes in accounting policies, internal merger, etc.)

Data Collection

Data Package Validation

Types of Control
There are two types of control:

Blocking controls: if these are not valid, the status of the data package cannot be validated. All these
controls must be valid.

Non-blocking controls: these controls are simply warnings and do not prevent the data package from
being validated. (For instance it is possible to enter the number of stocks of investment in subsidiaries
and capital in order to generate automatically the portfolio and the scope. This data entry is optional
and linked to non bloking controls).

Set of Controls
The controls are grouped in the package into sets of controls. Two control sets are configured in the starter
kit for IFRS, one for subsidiaries and joint-ventures and one for equity method companies.

Subsets of Controls
In the package, the controls are grouped together into subsets, where each subset of controls corresponds
to a book of schedules.

Main Types of Controls

Aim

Example
Assets equal Equity and Liabilities

Check balances

Gross value of assets higher or equal to depreciation and impairment

Exhaustive breakdown of investment in subsidiaries by shares
Complete analysis of investment in subsidiaries by flows

Securities and Shareholdings

Complete analysis of net equity by flows

Data entry of number of shares in capital and in investiment in
subsidiaries
Complete analysis of assets and liabilities by flows

Flow analysis

The transfer flow must balance

Exhaustive breakdown of reciprocal accounts, dividends, gains and

Intercompany breakdown

losses on disposal of assets and provision by partners

Data Collection

Control Levels
Each control is linked to a level. The level of control to be reached is set by the team at the central site
when the package is generated.
2 levels of control exist in the starter kit for IFRS:

1 Balance Analysis (Income Statement and Balance Sheet)

2 Flow analysis (Income Statement and Balance Sheet by flows)

The control levels check from the minimum level (LEV1: submission of Balance Sheet and Income
Statement only) to the maximum level corresponding to a full package (LEV2: complete submission).
When level 1 is required to be reached, only the controls attached to level 1 must be valid.

Consolidation Process

Consolidation Process
Overview of the consolidation process in SAP Financial Consolidation

Consolidation Definition
The settings of a consolidation definition are:

A category and a data entry period: selection of the data to be consolidated

(for example: Actual, 2011.12)

A scope

A variant

A consolidation currency.

The variant parameter is a technical dimension that allows different consolidation settings to be selected
for a given category, a given data period and a given currency:

Set of rules (monthly conversion / quaterly conversion / year to date conversion)

Audit ID filter restriction (IFRS adoption)

Scope (pro-forma statements)

Exchange rates table (pro-forma statements)

Four variants are pre-defined in the starter kit for IFRS: IFRS - YTD, IFRS Periodic, Local GAAP YTD
and Local GAAP Periodic. If needed, these variants can be renamed and new variants can be created.

Consolidation Processing
Two processing modes exist: full processing and incremental processing.
During the course of full processing, the software executes the following steps:

Read the scope

Load data: data of the period (package data and manual journal entries) and the opening balance, if
any

Convert package data and manual journal entries

Run the rules of the selected set of rules (see below).

For incremental processing, the software executes the same steps as described above but only for the
manual journal entries recorded since the last consolidation.

The conversion of data entered in foreign currency is carried out as follows (using the closing rate method):

The closing balance of the balance sheet is converted using closing exchange rates, except for net
equity which is recorded using historical exchange rates (calculation and booking of the currency
translation adjustment)

The net income of the period is converted using average exchange rates

Balance sheet movements of the period are converted using the average exchange rates of the period.

Depending on the set of rule selected in the consolidation definition and the type of conversion rate filled in
in the conversion rate table, periodic or year to date conversion will apply.
The configuration handles the following methods of consolidation: full consolidation, proportionate
consolidation and the equity method.
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Consolidation Process

The scope changes handled by the starter kit for IFRS set of rules are:

Acquisitions
Loss of control
Equity transactions
Changes in interest rates of associates and joint-ventures
Internal mergers

Flows generated during the consolidation process allow you to retrieve changes due to currency translation
differences and changes in scope consolidation.
These flows makes it possible to automatically produce the following financial statements:

Statement of Comprehensive Income

Statement of Cash Flows
Statement of Changes in Equity

Configured Automatic Entries

The starter kit for IFRS includes a set of rules that enable you to produce consolidated data using data from
the data entry packages.
This set of rules can be enhanced in order to meet the groups specific accounting policies.
The automatic consolidation entries are:

Elimination of internal reciprocal operations

Elimination of internal provisions
Elimination of internal dividends
Elimination of internal gains and losses on disposal of assets
Goodwill booking
Elimination of investment in subsidiaries
Calculation of currency translation adjustments
Calculation of non-controlling interests

In addition to standard consolidation rules, a number of technical rules have been configured in order to:

Calculate and store the subtotal accounts

Calculate and store line items for the Statement of Other Comprehensive Income, the Statement of
Cash Flows and the Statement of Changes in Equity
Calculate and store segment information

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Analysis Process

Analysis Process
Publishable Financial Statements
The starter kit for IFRS contains a complete set of financial statements which follow the requirements of
IAS1:

A Statement of Financial Position in the current/non-current format

An income statement with an expense classification by function

A Statement of Other Comprehensive Income

A Statement of Cash Flows

A Statement of Changes in Equity

Financial Statements analysed by segment are also available:

Revenue by segment

Revenue by geographical area

Non current assets by geographical area

Monitoring and Controlling the Consolidation

Process
Accounting Reports
The accounting reports (balances, general ledgers, debit-credit ledgers) allow for the analysis of
consolidated data by drilling down to the original data.

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Analysis Process

Consolidation Analysis
The pre-configuration contains schedules that enable you to validate each step of the consolidation
process:

Check packages
Check main balances
Check conversion
Intercompany reconciliations
Transition from local to consolidated figures
Net Equity, dividends and goodwills

EXAMPLE: Consolidation control dashboard

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Analysis Process

Analysis and Audit Trail

The starter kit for IFRS contains schedules that allow for the analysis of consolidated data.
Each data item is linked to an audit ID and a journal entry number which makes the audit trail possible.
The audit ID allows the accounting origin to be tracked. For instance:

The PACK01 Package data audit ID tracks data that has been entered in the packages

The ELIM10 audit ID is linked to the elimination of reciprocal transactions

EXAMPLE: Transition from local to consolidated figures

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Analysis Process

With analysis schedules, each line of the Statements of Financial Position and of the income statement can
be detailed by account, reporting unit or audit ID.

EXAMPLE: Analysis of a Statement of Financial Position line by account

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Analysis Process

Each line in the Statement of Other Comprehensive Income, the Statement of Cash Flows and the
Statement of Changes in Equity can be analysed via drill down to analyse which account/flow pairs
generated the amount.

EXAMPLE: Analysis of a Statement of Cash Flows line item (focus on the net cash flows from
financing activites):

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IFRS Adoption

IFRS Adoption
Data Collection
In the starter kit for IFRS, adjustments to IFRS can be entered on dedicated audit IDs directly in package
schedules.

EXAMPLE: Income Statement by audit ID

The starter kit for IFRS also provides the ability to post IFRS specific journal entries on dedicated central
audit IDs.
Thanks to audit ID filter restrictions used in the consolidation definition, IFRS adjustments can be taken into
account in the IFRS consolidation process and not in the local GAAP consolidation process.

Analysis and Audit Trail

The starter kit for IFRS provides a complete set of pre-configured reports for comparing local GAAP and
IFRS:

Financial statements for comparing data consolidated according to local GAAP and IFRS

Balance reconciliation with an analysis by audit ID of differences between local GAAP and IFRS

Analysis schedules for complete audit trail of differences until journal entry number

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EXAMPLE: Analysis of the differences between local GAAP and IFRS for a Statement of profit or
loss line item (detail by account and audit ID)

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Retrieval of Financial Statements

Retrieval of Financial Statements

Statement of Financial Position

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Retrieval of Financial Statements

Statement of Financial Position (continued)

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Retrieval of Financial Statements

Statement of profit or loss

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Retrieval of Financial Statements

Statement of Other Comprehensive Income

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Retrieval of Financial Statements

Statement of Cash Flows

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Retrieval of Financial Statements

Statement of Cash Flows (continued)

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Retrieval of Financial Statements

Statement of Changes in Equity

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