BI Reporting: LO & FI environment differences? Role of Fiscal Year Variant

Hi,
I will soon be on a project as a Reporting BI Consultant in the Finance environment. A first, but I have worked as a SAP BI Reporting person in SD environment in the past.
1. What should I expect to be different reporting for FI compared to LO?
2. In particular, I have some questions about fiscal year variant after reviewing the many documents on this site.
Let's say k4 is the fiscal year variant and my understanding is that it can be a calenda dependant fiscal year variant, meaning that postings on R3/ECC are stored by months from Jan to Dec[ Is this a true statement about the storage of data? ]
i.   Now, if this is the case,about data storage, then how is k4 used in reports?
ii.  If k4 is stored in months then what if the data is needed per weeks, or per days on reports?
iii. On the same report can there also be another fiscal year variant k5? Any real life examples to clarify it?
3. What are the challenges I should expect in reporting for finance i.e. as an SAP BI Reporting Consultant?
Thanks

A. Aging like how many days Account Receivable been outstanding.. report like 0 - 30Days, 31 - 60Days and 61 - 90Days and so on.
B. Everything like fisc* depends on variant and everyting 0cal* depends on normal calendar. A record can't have more than one fiscal variant. Like I mentioned to you, a company code may use one of the variants they are allowed to use and everything is based on that. I am not sure I answered your querstion.
C. Let's assume 05/30/2011 is the calendar day and K1 variant is Jan - Dec, so the 0fiscper = 005/2011 0fiscyear = 2011 and 0fiscper3 = 05 and if the variant is K2 which is July - June then 0fiscper = 011/2011 and 0fiscyear = 2011 and 0fiscper3 = 11. in your report you have to give users variant selection as mandatory variable to get appropriate result.
2i. like I mentioned above, based on the variant selection, the report displays the correct value.
2ii. Just like any other data aggregation, if you data is stored by period and they want to drilldown by week, then you need to store your data at detail level. That is why aggregation is very important.
2iii. Like is is explained above, a company can use only one variant, if you want to get data for Z1 countries, then in the variable selection they pass K1 and likewise for K2. The challenge here is if you want to display both K1 and K2, this is real challeng for global reporting. In this case you have to convert the K2 to K1 in transformation so that you can use one variant for both countries. That way both K1 and K2 coutries for the same fiscal variant will be displayed.
thanks.
Wond

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