Income Statement & Balance Sheet Reporting via a single ASO cube

Hi All,
I wanted to get some perspective on industry best practices as it relates to performing Income Statement & Balance Sheet reporting via a single Essbase ASO cube. As both these areas share a lot of common dimensions, do most of the companies implement a single cube for integrated reporting or split cubes and have tools like HFR, Web Analysis etc. combine the information from those cubes for integrated cube.
Appreciate any thoughts on this.
Thanks!

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Best keeping it to one forum and seeing it is a purely essbase question.
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John
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Ncome Statement & Balance Sheet Reporting via a single ASO cube

Hi All,
I wanted to get some perspective on industry best practices as it relates to performing Income Statement & Balance Sheet reporting via a single Essbase ASO cube. As both these areas share a lot of common dimensions, do most of the companies implement a single cube for integrated reporting or split cubes and have tools like HFR, Web Analysis etc. combine the information from those cubes for integrated cube.
Appreciate any thoughts on this.
Thanks!

In 16 years of Essbase/Hyperion experience (14 of them consulting and training), I have seen just as many clients combining income statements and balance sheets in the same cube (BSO or ASO) as I have seen separate the two into individual cubes. Just as the BSO/ASO decision should factor in data volumes and hierarchy size, the combined/separate cube decision must come from good analysis of the situation at hand. Sometimes it is just a design preference for the company at hand.
Your question seems weighted toward ASO, so I would encourage you to make sure you are using ASO for the right reasons. I reserver ASO for cubes where the current or planned amount of history carried will be massive and/or when a very large hierarchy is required. Otherwise, I prefer to have the full flexibility of BSO.
One favorite project was for a re-insurance company in Bermuda (you can probably guess some of the other reasons I considered it a favorite project!?!). The consolidated P&L and B/S were in the same cube. This allowed us to properly "connect" the two statements such that retained earnings at the end of a quarter could flow over to hit the balance sheet. Of course, a two-cube design wouldn't necessarily prevent this thanks to @XREF (which didn't exist back in those days) or partitioning to name a couple of alternative. This makes my point that, to some extent, it all comes back to a matter of design preference for you and your project team.
Darrell Barr

Consolidation group change: Balance sheet/income statement balance 14,560

Dear All,
While performing the consolidation group change task, system throws the error message :
Balance sheet/income statement balance 14,560,497.62- INR
Message no. UCD1011
Diagnosis
The document to be posted is not completely in balance.
Entries involving items of the balance sheet or the income statement must always have a zero balance to ensure that both the balance sheet and the income statement are balanced, respectively. This is not true in this case.
System Response
Entry cannot be posted.
Procedure
Correct the amounts for the balance sheet items and/or income statement items.
I have checked the COI Settings and not showing any error.
I have analysed the problem and found that system is not picking one FS item 107501 i.e Profit and Loss CY.
Can any one suggest me how to resolve this.
Thanks in advance.
G Vinod

Hi DAN,
i ll elaborate what i wanted to convey.
When we upload
1. TB Equal to ZERO
2. Net of BS items may not be equal to ZERO
Eg: if September 2010 (FY is April to Mar) file is being uploaded, the profit till the period September will be in PL items. so to the extent of profit element will be the difference in BS Items.
when u run profit calculation task, after data upload and validation, system will pass the following entry,
In case of Loss:
BS - Profit and loss - CY -           Dr
PL- Profit before MI         -          Cr
BS- BS Clearing A/c                     Cr
PL - PL Clearing A/c                    Dr
when u run PCC, system ll pick these two items *BS - Profit and loss - CY and BS- BS Clearing A/c. so obviously, posting cannot be done.
Please tell me if u still not understand
Thanks and Regards,
G Vinod

Profit n loss statement n balance sheet reports

Hi,
I need to develop PNL and Balance sheet reports. Could anyone please guide me how-tos about it and the pit holes need to b avoided?
Thanks,
DP

There are std P&L and balance sheet reports delivered by SAP. That would be a good place to start.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw33/helpdata/en/6e/ff703b3de59e4fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw33/helpdata/en/6e/ff703b3de59e4fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Difference of balance in balance sheet report & Business area wise report

Dear Group Members!!
In my company user wants to generate Business are wise Report
Difference of balance in balance sheet report & Business area wise report from same t code
Balances are different if enter business area, & if I execute the report with out entering any business area. Transaction code S_ALR_87012284 - Balance Sheet / Profit and Loss Statement.
The difference amount to be considered as data entry made with out using business area?
How do I rectify this?
Your comment will be helpful for me
Shamulheq

Hi Shamulheq
While working with business area you must first recognize that they are not company code dependent and can be used cross-company. Also depending on the SAP release you are working with postings to Business Area may not 100% guarantee, since there are cases where rules or standard SAP is not available and line items posted will be carried out without BA. For SAP releases not using the NEW GL, the setting up of adjustments accounts and monthly execution of adjustment programs would provide the vehicle to relate and adjust any missing BA at B/S and P/L level. If you are using NEW GL the document splitting would help to set the rules where every single line item would get a business area.
I assume that you are using the classic GL. The execution of T code S_ALR_87012284 - Balance Sheet / Profit and Loss Statement without business area retrieves all posting entered for any given company code regardless the account was posted with or without business area, this can be clearly displayed when you select the radio button for Classic Navigation. If you filter by Business Area, then the report will isolate the output data accordingly (The balances should be smaller). When using the classic GL you have to make sure that the financial statement version you use to execute the report, includes that the technical (Adjustment accout) account(s) that is used for the adjustment programs, so the correction to buisness areas is also included.
In conlcusion I think you have to make all this considerations, in order to better understand where the differences come from.
Hope this helps.
GG

PCA Trial Balance Sheet Report

Hi
In GL module the transaction F.08 gives you a trial balance with debit & credit values by GL, is there a report which does the same in PCA? there is a similar report in KE80 8a-PCA005G but this is only working for P&L accounts I need the report to work for balance sheet accounts.
We are not using the new GL.
thanks for your help

Voodi,
Description of problem
- The P&L statement node amount is supposed to roll up to the Profit/Loss current Year node in the balance sheet
- If amount is a profit, amount goes to calculated profit node
- If amount is a loss, amount goes to calculated loss node
- When I run a balance sheet report the Profit/Loss current Year node does not show at all. I assume because no data for leaves.
- When the customer runs a FS report in ECC, they see the Profit/Loss current Year node
- Also, the chart of accounts used is WACA, but the leaf forcalculated profit is 0COA0BRESULT 2A and the leaf for calculated loss is 0COA0BRESULT 1A.
- Where does this config take place in ECC for the FS hierarchy? I went into ECC and looked at FS item versions and don't see an item under calculated profit or loss.
- The customer expects these leaves to appear in query result. I am trying to determine if some config is required in ECC for FS item or do I need to perform calculation in query
- Not FI savvy

Regarding Balance sheet reports

hello gurus,
i'm new to FI reporting, so what kind of reports we generate in FI, & what is balance sheet reporting (i came to no that it covers FI-AA,AR,AP,GL) exactly wat we perform in Balance sheet reporting
can anybody help me in this issue.

Hi Madhav,
In FI we have several areas like Accounts payable, accounts receivable, Asset accounting, General Ledger Accouting, Funds Management.
The Balance Sheet is one of the Financial Statements prepared in Accouting. Profit and Loss statement is another Financial Statement prepared.
These can be obtained from the providers like
0FIGL_VC1 General Ledger: Balance Sheet and P&L Statement (for period accounting)
0FIGL_VC2 Cost of Sales Ledger: Balance Sheet and P&L Statement (for cost of sales accounting)
Please check the link from help.sap for more details.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/57/dd153c4eb5d82ce10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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Sudeepti

UDF at balance sheet report

Hi All,
When we run the finance report (Trial balance,profit and loss statement,Balance sheet) then there are two parameter to bifurcate the reports on Expended button.These parameters are working well on Trial balance and P&L but not on Balance sheet.
Dont know what is the issue? I am working on 8.81 PL 0
Thanks

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I am creating a balance sheet report using 0GL_ACCOUNT as a hierarchy. The infoprovider is 0FIGL_C10.
The 0GL_ACCOUNT hierarchy has nodes:
-> Stockholder's equity
 --> Profit/loss current year
 --> Calculated profit
 --> Calculated loss
The nodes Calculated profit & Calculated loss have no leaves, so these hierarchy nodes don't show in query. However they show on ECC report.
What is the link?
I ran a delivered quey for virtual cube 0FIGL_V11 which uses 0GLACCEXT (financial statement item) and these nodes still don't show.

Voodi,
Description of problem
- The P&L statement node amount is supposed to roll up to the Profit/Loss current Year node in the balance sheet
- If amount is a profit, amount goes to calculated profit node
- If amount is a loss, amount goes to calculated loss node
- When I run a balance sheet report the Profit/Loss current Year node does not show at all. I assume because no data for leaves.
- When the customer runs a FS report in ECC, they see the Profit/Loss current Year node
- Also, the chart of accounts used is WACA, but the leaf forcalculated profit is 0COA0BRESULT 2A and the leaf for calculated loss is 0COA0BRESULT 1A.
- Where does this config take place in ECC for the FS hierarchy? I went into ECC and looked at FS item versions and don't see an item under calculated profit or loss.
- The customer expects these leaves to appear in query result. I am trying to determine if some config is required in ECC for FS item or do I need to perform calculation in query
- Not FI savvy

Balance sheet reports - YTD or Periodic

Hello Experts,
Had a question about how and what data needs to be loaded from BW to BPC NW version so that I can create balance sheet reports in BPC. Currently I am loading the periodic debit-credit activity to my planning application for all the accounts (Its the 0FIGL_O14 DSO and there is a custom cube created over it. We are not loading the 0BALANCE from the 0FIGL_C10 cube).
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I know I am doing something wrong out here but dont know the exact reason and how do I correct it?
Please give suggestions around how balance sheets are to be created and what data needs to be exactly loaded from BW...
Thanks
Gaurav

Hi Gaurav,
It is ideal to make all the custom changes in BW itself and feed it as-is to BPC, as to do this in BW it just requires some simple ABAP.
I am assuming that you are feeding data to BPC via 0figl_c10 cube(transaction figures) or a custom cube based on it. This cube should have 0sales(periodic balances) and 0balance(cumulative balances). So enhance this cube with a new key figure and populate this key figure based on the approach that i mentioned to you earlier. Just map this newly added field to BPC signeddata to meet your requirement. This is the best approach that i see.
PS: Please assign points if you find the answers helpful.
Thanks,
Vinay

Move net income to balance sheet - NW version

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In BPC MS the function ROLLTOBS is used to move net income to balance sheet.
Now I'm using BPC NW (7.0.02) and I'm strugling to find a similar function. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
/Lars

Lars,
I know this was quite some time ago, but I am having an issue getting this to work for me and I think I have everything setup correclty. Here is a summary of what I've done:
1. added the process chain RUNCALCACCOUNT in DataManager
2. modified Finance application to allow Account transformations (calculations)
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4. Created CALCACCOUNT.LGF script logic with the following and save and validate:
"   *RUN_PROGRAM RUNCALCACCOUNT
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     OTHER = [ENTITY=%ENTITY_SET%]
     *ENDRUN_PROGRAM
     *COMMIT    "
5. During testing, I select only one month and run the logic file directly thru DataManager then create a report to verify.
Any insigth you can provide me would be greatly appreciated.

Intra Company Postings not shown on Balance Sheet Report S_ALR_87012284

Team,
FI is unable to recognize the intra company cost flows in balance sheet when it is executed for the entire company codes (Example in CPS 1000-2400).
The Cost allocations are not broken down; all our secondary cost elements are mapped to a primary cost element.
The Cost flows are seen when the balance sheet report is executed for one company code.
Please let me know if there is a way to resolve this issue.
Appreciate your help ahead.
Thanks
Sree Vidya
Enterprise Application Delivery
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Vendor wise drill down in Trial Balance or Balance sheet report

Dear Experts,
Is there any report for Trial Balance or P&L/ Balance Sheet report where vendor wise drill down of amounts is possible?
Please suggest.
Regards
Komal

Hi Dear ,
You can use F.08 for Trail Balance and Vendor details - S_ALR_87012082 - Vendor Balances in Local Currency
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Balance Sheet Report in SAP BW/BI

Hi,
I have been requested to create a Balance sheet report on FIGL Cube and I need your help as I don't have much functional knowledge in FI.
I need your help to understand which GL accounts should we include in the balance sheet. I can see a hierarchy built on 0GL_account for balance sheet but I have been told that I canot use the hierarchy as it is as we may need to include or exclude some GL accounts.
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I also need your help in reconciling the balance sheet with R/3. what is the approach to reconcile the whole balance sheet with R/3 and BW.
Please provide your valuable information.
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HI,
balance sheet is always combination of GL accounts. but you need the functional help for which GL accounts you can use in balcance sheet line items. ex: input material cost, utility cost these all are combination of GL accounts so functional guy will give you the list of GL accounts.
easy way is creating the heirarchy, since you have the heirarchy copy it and do the changes as per your requirement finaly in your report you just have the heirarchy and key figures are credit and debit etc
roconsilation alway with the combination of GL accounts. (take some GLA ccounts month wise or fiscal period wise and check in R3 and your BI data target)
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How to get balance sheet report for profit centers

hi
how to get balance sheet report for profit centers, is there any transcation code to get that report or i need to create a report painter report for this

Hi,
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More to this you can use program RFBILA10 (Use T. code SE38 and program RFBILA10) for complete blance sheet.
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