Demystifying S/4 HANA - sFIN: sFIN Accelerated Implementation, Upgrade & Migration

Demystifying S/4 HANA - sFIN
sFIN Accelerated Implementation, Upgrade & Migration

S/4 HANA - sFIN Rapid Deployment Solution (RDS)
Closing Cockpit
Integrated Procure To Pay (PTP)
Integrated Order To Cash (OTC)
Content Producer
________________________________
Jothi Periasamy
Chief Data Scientist
Chief SAP HANA Architect
Chief Financial Solution Architect
(916)-296-0228
08/28/2015
Jothi Periasamy @ (916)-296-0228

Agenda
08/28/2015
Who We Are?
Sierra Overview
What is S/4 HANA?
S/4 HANA Platform Overview

S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA sFIN
How Does S/4 HANA Look Like?
Live System Demo

Sierras S/4 HANA Use Case For Oil & Gas
Financial Accounting
Integrated Financial Planning
Financial Close
Reporting and Predictive Analytics
Why S/4 HANA in O&G?
S/4 HANA sFIN in Oil & Gas Industry

Business Scenarios
Business Benefits
How Do You Get Started With S/4 HANA?
S/4 HANA Solution Scope

Implementation Options
Implementation Lessons Learned
Q&A
Open Discussion

Sierra Overview :
Founded in 2002, headquartered in Houston, Texas
Worldwide operations in US, Canada, Malaysia and India
255+ employees worldwide with over 150 in the US
Growing at over 50% every year
Serving more than 55 key accounts across the globe
Over ten S/4 HANA certified professionals
Industry Verticals:

Partnerships
SAP certified premier partner
S/4 HANA Offerings

Advisory, Implementation, Training and Post Production Support

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Energy & Oil & Gas

Public Sector
Retail/ CPG
Utilities
Manufacturing
S/4 HANA implementations, upgrades

S/4 HANA sFIN implementations, Migration and upgrades
S/4 HANA and HADOOP Integration
S/4 HANA and Open Source Analytics - R & Payton
S/4 HANA sFIN, SAP BPC, SAP BOBJ, SAP BW, FICO, BASIS, HCM, CRM, SCM, SEM, BI
24x7 Global Support Services

Sierras SAP HANA Capabilities:
What S/4 HANA Services Being Offered By Sierra?
Advisory
Implementation
Upgrade
Migration
Support
Sierra accelerates S/4 HANA implementation through Rapid Deployment Solutions

(RDS) Closing Cockpit, Procure to Pay , Order to Cash, and more
Sierra has proven industry use cases for financial, integrated planning and analytics
Sierra empowers SAP HANA upgrades and migrations with pre-built Sandbox systems
Sierra has been recognized as a finance thought leader
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Sierras Data & Analytics Capabilities:
Big Data & Analytics
Planning and Forecasting
SAP Business
Planning and
Consolidations
(BPC)
SAP
Master Data
Management
(MDM)
SAP
Business
Warehouse
(BW)
SAP
Business
Objects(BO) Tools
Data
Science
SAP Governance
Risk &
Compliances
( GRC)
SAP
Strategy
Management

D
R
A
F
T
Big Data Management

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Financial Close
Predictive Analytics
Advanced Analytics
Data Discovery
Interactive Analytics
Self Servicing and Ad-Hoc Query
Dashboards and Data Visualization
Scenario Analysis
Business Insights
Enterprise Reporting
Management Reporting
Operational Insights
Data Governance
Data Quality
Data Management
Data Profiling
Data Enrichment
Data Integration
Data Mapping
Data Transformations

Agenda
08/28/2015
Who We Are?
Sierra Overview
What is S/4 HANA?

S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA sFIN
Live System Demo

Financial Close

Business Scenarios
Business Benefits

Q&A
Open Discussion

What is S/4 HANA?

Simple Finance
Simple Logistics
Planning
Forecasting
Budgeting
Integrated
Planning
Applications

Step Consolidation
Statutory
Reporting
Financial Closing
(Cockpit)

Advanced Analytics
Reporting
Data Visualization
Analytics
S/4 HANA Platform
Driving Factors
Big Data
Internet of
Things (IoT)
Digital
Economy
Advanced
Analytics
A reimagined suite to reimagine business - Real-Time & Simplified

Discover the value of simplicity in the digital era
Discover the digital business foundation
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Digital Innovation Is Real In S/4 HANA
With S/4 HANA in-memory

computing , now we can finally:
Re-imagine
Business
Model
Smarter
Business
Smarter
Decisions
Decision
Smarter
Transaction
Leverage big data
Re-imagine
Business
Process
Modernize business process

Business Process
Innovation and simplification

Real-time business process

Marketplace
Supplier Collaboration
Logistics Service
B2B Payment
Travel Network more
Data & Information

Social Data
Big Data Source
Web Services
Machine Data
Geospatial more
S/4 HANA Platform
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Big Data & Internet of Things (IoT)Jothi Periasamy @ (916)-296-0228

What is S/4 HANA sFIN?
S/4 HANA
sFIN
______________
What it does
?
S/4 HANA sFIN

replaces the
classic
Financials
applications in
your SAP ERP
system
S/4 HANA
sFIN
______________
S/4 HANA
sFIN
______________
How it
helps?
Where it fits?
S/4 HANA sFIN

add-on for SAP
Business Suite
powered by
SAP HANA
comes with a
simplified data
model.
S/4 HANA sFIN

2.0 is general
available since
end of March
2015, Includes
Accounting powered by SAP

HANA
Cash Management
Integrated Business Planning (IP
and BPC and embedded BW)
Treasury
Financial Risk Management
Collaborative Finance
Operations

Financial Process
Financial Planning
Simple Process
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Real-time Insights
Unified Financials
Financial Close
Financial Reporting

What is S/4 HANA sFIN? ( Continued )
High Level View
New General Ledger Accounting
Accounts Receivable
Finance
FI
Accounts Payable
New Asset Accounting
Cash Management
Treasury and Risk Management
Cost Center Accounting
CO
Controlling
S/4
HANA
sFIN
Universal
Journal
Unified
Single
Document
Profit Center Accounting

Profitability Analysis
Product Cost Planning and Cost Object
Controlling
Material Ledger
Internal Order Accounting
Close
Plan
ning
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Financial Close and Disclosure Management
Integrated Planning

What is Closing Cockpit ?
Closing Cockpit:
SAP Smart Business for Financial
Close is the new solution in S/4
HANA.
Achieve Early Financial Close and Financial Insights
What
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Soft Close
Close
Prediction
Hard Close
Analyze finance
data at any time
without a
dedicated periodic
process
Simulate &
Predict financials
results for the
end of the
reporting cycle
Dedicated
Financial close
process at period
end
Financials Closing Tasks with real-time execution Not specific to period-end but
anytime during the period
Intercompany Reconciliation
Accelerated Asset Depreciation and Calculation of production variances
No more batch jobs Automatic matching on the fly
Improved reporting and collaboration

S/4 HANA Business Benefits :
Data Model is made very simple
All the Aggregate and Index tables are removed and are calculated on the fly
Before
S/4 HANA
After
S/4 HANA
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BKPF
BSEG
BSIS
BSIK
BSET
LFC1
GLTO
COBK
COEP
COSP
BKPF
BSEG
SAP ERP
Financials with
Aggregates and
Indices
S/4 HANA
Financials

S/4 HANA Business Benefits:
Universal Journal
Profitability Analysis
General Ledger Accounting

Ledger
Company
Account1
Account 2
Account 3 .
Operating Concern
Profit Center
Segment
Universal Journal (New Table in S/4 HANA SFIN : ACDOCA)

Ledger
Company
Cost Elements
Profit Center
Controlling
Controlling Area
Cost Elements
Account 1
Account 2
..
Asset Accounting
Account 1
Account 2
.
Company
Assets
Asset
Material
Material Ledger
Company
Materials
Various accounting applications merge in the new structure of Universal Journal

(ACDOCA)
The new comprehensive data table ACDOCA contains all of the line item
documents from FI, FI-AA and CO
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S/4 HANA Business Benefits:
Financial Reporting and Analytics Simplified:
Before
Traditional
Financial Reporting
FI
OR
CO
OR
CO-PA
Financial
SAP ERP
Financials
Reporting
Financial Reporting
After
FI
+/AND
CO
+/AND
CO-PA
Unified Reporting
Key Figures
Measures
SAP S/4 HANA

Financials
Dimensions
Comprehensive Reporting Including CO and CO-PA detail

Reporting is not limited by application boundaries
Run one report (e.g. P&L) and drill-down to any dimension available in the financial documents
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S/4 HANA Business Benefits Summary:
OLTP
Single
vs.
Platform
OLAP
Data
Data Model is
made very
simple
Data Footprint
is reduced
drastically
Its Simple
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OLTP and OLAP

in single system
Unified
platform for

Planning
Forecasting
Close
Reporting
Simple
& Easy
Its Easy
Reporting
and Business
Insights
Instant access to
any financial
insight on any
device
Always
reconciled
financial process
for real-time
financial data
analysis
Its Real-time
OLTP
Advanced
vs.
Analytics
OLAP
Decision making
using prediction
and simulation,
always on the fly
Easy
Deployment
Options - cloud,
on premise, or
hybrid
deployment
options
Its Digital
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Who We Are?
Sierra Overview
What is S/4 HANA?

S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA sFIN
Live System Demo

Financial Close

Business Scenarios
Business Benefits

Q&A
Open Discussion

Live Demo:
08/28/2015

Demo Scope:
In this live system demonstration, we will be reviewing Sierras S/4 HANA raid
deployment solutions (RDS) for financial process, integrated planning,
forecasting, financial close, reporting and advanced analytics
Sierras S/4 HANA Rapid Deployment Solutions(RDS)
08/28/2015
S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA
sFIN
SAP
Lumira
SAP
BPC
Big Data Analytics
Reporting & Analytics
Planning & Close
Closing Cockpit
Financial
Reporting
Procure To Pay
(PTP)

Profit & Loss

Balance Sheet
Cash Flow
Integrated
Planning

CPEX
OPEX
Order To Cash
(OTC)
Predictive
AnalyticsGross Margin
Financial Close
Step
Consolidation
Fast Close
Advanced
Analytics
Customer
Analytics
Social Media
Analytics

SAP S/4 HANA Oil & Gas Use Case
S/4 HANA sFIN Rapid Deployment Solution
Value
Proposition
08/28/2015

Pre-configured functionality
Pre-built reports
Ready-to-go analytics
Reduce time, cost and risk

Integrated Planning Powered By S/4 HANA sFIN
SAP BPC Powered by S/4 HANA
Overheads Cost
Corporate
Overheads
Gas Purchase
Electricity Purchase
Interest
Overhead
Settlement-EIP
OPEX Planning
and Forecasting


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CAPEX
Planning and
Forecasting

Depreciation Straight Line
Method and
Double Decline
Method.
SAP BPC Powered by S/4 HANA

Financial Fast Close : Oil & Gas Use Case
Step consolidation
Inter company recompilation
Real-time close
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Equity adjustments
Ownership adjustments
Consolidated financials

Reporting and Analytics - Oil & Gas Use Case
Financial reporting
Management reporting
Statutory reporting
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Predictive analytics
Advanced analytics
Data visualization

Agenda
08/28/2015
Who We Are?
Sierra Overview
What is S/4 HANA?

S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA sFIN
Live System Demo

Financial Close

Business Scenarios
Business Benefits

Q&A
Open Discussion

Transform Your Business With S/4 HANA
Sierra Can Make This Happen
S/4
HANA
Values
Oil & Gas Challenges
S/4 HANA Offering

Process
Excellence
Landscape
Simplification
Universal Journal
Faster Closing
Contextual Information
Zero Data Latency
Real-time Data
Provisioning
Enterprise-wide
Visibility
Total Cost of
Ownership
Best Practices
Choice of Deployment
Well Profitability
Down Turn
Asset Visibility
Regulatory Report
Digital Oilfield Operations
Hydrocarbon Supply Chain
Capital and Spend

Effectiveness
Few Key Benefits

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Reduce invoice delivery time by 50%

Increase ordering and payment from 1% of customer to 30% of customer
Shortened order-to-cash time by 2 days

How Sierra Can Help You?
S/4 HANA Rapid Deployment Solution From Sierra

RDS
RDS
Sierra
Values
08/28/2015

Upstream Capital and Operational Accounting

Midstream Sales and Marketing
Downstream Purchase Oder, and Invoice Approvals
Financial Reporting

Agenda
08/28/2015
Who We Are?
Sierra Overview
What is S/4 HANA?

S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA sFIN
Live System Demo

Financial Close

Business Scenarios
Business Benefits

Q&A
Open Discussion
Sierras S/4 HANA Implementation Accelerators
Proven Implementation
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High
Quality
Accelerated Upgrade
Low
Cost
Risk Free Migration
No
Risk

Sierra Has Been Recognized By SAP
At Sierra, We have full functioning ready to-go S/4 HANA sFIN system
Successfully
implemente
d S/4 HANA
sFIN
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Proven Implementation
Successfully
Upgraded
S/4 HANA
sFIN 2.0
Accelerated Upgrade
Successfully
Migrated
From
SAP ERP
To
S/4 HANA
sFIN 2.0
Risk Free Migration

SAP S/4 HANA Implementation Scenarios:
What solution best suits for customers ?
As a first step find areas where customers have identified pain, in particular if they are already undergoing a process of
finance transformation
Multiple ERP-Systems (e.g. due to

M&A) causing high TCO and slow
innovation cycles.
Long closing cycles and / or the

ambition to have reliable finance data
at any time.
High Day Sales Outstanding (DSO)

and / or Cash Flow Challenges.
Risk of Fraud and / or high Audit

costs.
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SAP HANA
SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA
BPC Netweaver or financial
consolidation

SAP HANA
SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA
SAP Financial Closing Cockpit
SAP Central Process Scheduling

SAP
S/4 HANA
Solutions
Business
Challenges

SAP HANA
SAP Cash Management powered HANA
SAP Working Capital Analytics
SAP Receivables Management
BPC NetWeaver, planning only

SAP HANA
SAP Fraud Management
SAP Process Control

SAP Simple Finance Provides Deployment Flexibility
Moving to the cloud at your pace and without functional compromises
On Premise
Traditional licensing with

customer control of deployment
and maintenance
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Hybrid
Combination of on-premise and

cloud capabilities to meet
specific, modular needs
Cloud
Subscription licensing with

deployment in the private cloud,
maintained by SAP. Sold by
Direct SAP only

Possible SAP Simple Finance Adoption Steps
Key Value Scenarios

Smart business cockpits
SAP Business Suite on SAP

HANA
SideSide-byby-side SAP HANA
Acceleration
SAP HANA accelerators,
BW, BPC, GRC
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SAP ERP on SAP HANA

SAP ERP in SAP HANA
Enterprise Cloud
SAP Accounting Powered

By SAP HANA
SAP Business Planning

and Consolidation 10.1
Simple Finance add-on
SAP Cash Management

powered by SAP HANA
Simple base package for

SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud
Central Finance
SAP Working Capital

Analytics
SAP Fraud Management

Getting Started with SAP Journey Maps
Five easy steps to adopt SAP Simple Finance

5
4
3
2
1
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Try
Experience
Take 5 steps to identify the scope of

SAP Simple Finance, determine your
scope, and manage your deployment
Deploy
Investigate the non-disruptive ways to
move towards SAP HANA in any
deployment mode
Identify
Explore

Sierras S/4 HANA Implementation Statistics:
Highlights of Simple Finance Implementation
People
Timeline
Outcome
S/4 HANA sFIN

3 involved
Group(BI&AS, BIZ,
P&I, AGS,SLO,IMS,CID)
Only 55 days from

Kick Off to Go
Live
Smooth system
upgrade and data
migration
Less than one
3 workstreams
150 test cases
work day system

down-time
10 project team
177 UAT tickets
PS 880 Certification
members
4 testers
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Product certified IDW
9,5 hours duration of
~100 implemented
technical data
Notes Only 18
migration
customer messages

Sierras S/4 HANA Implementation Statistics: (Continued )
JUNE 2015
AUGUST 2015
Post
Installation
Pre-installation and Installation Key Steps

Technical
Preparation
Data Consistency
Prerequisites.
New GL
Fin. Add-on Data
Data
Post
Inc. sFIN
Migration
Migration
Consistency
Processing
Installation
Close activities
- FI
- FI-AA
Job stops
Reporting snap
shots for
comparisons

New GL
Customizing
ERP 617 SP
Migration of
Financial Data
(AP/AR/GL/CO
)
Checks after
migration
Incl. NW 740
SPS6 incl. SRM
Posting of CO

Fin. Add-on
SP0
Technical
Reconciliation
& Checks
Migrate
entries in
doc. into FI
Add-on
Activate New
GL
and Migration:
User locking
Check report FIAA
Upgrade from
ERP 616 to

Initial balance
CF
index tables
Link line items

CO&FI
partition
into cold
FI-AA
customizing
Reconciliation
and migration
Installation
(report)
Sequence for ISP - Simple Finance upgrade & Data migration

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Major Pain Points
Process
Data
Technology
Challenges
Challenges
Challenges
Huge data volume in CO
Huge data volume in CO
allocation cycles might need
allocation cycles might need
buffered company codes to
buffered company codes to
avoid dumps.
avoid dumps.
Reversals
New posting logic
Archived line items
Data Mapping and

Conversion
System landscape
design and client
strategy
Connectivity between
various system - SAP
ERP, S/4 HANA, FIORI,
SAP BPC, SAP BW, and
other external system
Open item management
Sierra Will Help You To Overcome These Challenges

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Key Takeaways
Preparations
Integrate all performance testing
activities in one work stream
Recommendations
Ensure on-site availability of key
subject matter experts and
project managers
Conduct technical preparation

phase incl. archiving and code
management
Identify business transactions
that will be replaced by Simple
Finance/New GL transactions
Upgrade system to latest version
of application, NetWeaver and
Run cutover dry-run in an

integrated system
Involve business stakeholders
closely in project
Set up change management
stream to train Business users on
new transactions
Set up change management
stream to train Business users on
new transactions
HANA database revisions
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Agenda
08/28/2015
Who We Are?
Sierra Overview
What is S/4 HANA?

S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA sFIN
Live System Demo

Financial Close

Business Scenarios
Business Benefits

Q&A
Open Discussion
Appendix
Sierras Pre-packaged S/4 HANA sFIN Solution For Accelerated Implementation
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Profit & Loss Analysis

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Revenue by Month - Conventional Gas, Diesel, Freight, Lubricants and others

Expense by Month
Analyze Gross Profit
Compare Gross Profit vs. Net Income

Profit & Loss Analysis - Gross Profit By Month

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Revenue By Segment

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Volume By Segment

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Expense By Month

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Revenue By Month

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Volume By Month

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Volume Prediction By Month

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Volume Prediction By Segment

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Revenue Prediction By Month

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Expense by Month

Profit & Loss Analysis - Revenue Prediction By Segment

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Expense by Month

Product Gross Margin Analysis

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Gross Profit and Revenue by Month - Conventional Gas, Diesel, Freight, Lubricants, and others
Daily Net Gallon
Gross Profit Per Net Gallon
Gross Margin %


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Daily Net Gallon
Gross Margin %


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Daily Net Gallon
Gross Margin %


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Daily Net Gallon
Gross Margin %


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Daily Net Gallon
Gross Margin %

Balance Sheet Monthly Analysis
Accounts Receivable
Petty Cash
Bank Account
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Balance Sheet Line Item Variance Analysis
Accounts Receivable
Petty Cash
Bank Account
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Balance Sheet Trend Analysis
Accounts Receivable
Petty Cash
Bank Account
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Balance Sheet
Accounts Receivable
Petty Cash
Bank Account
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Trail Balance Analysis

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Clearing Invoice
Customer Discount
Sales Tax
Sales Cost

Trial Balance Analysis

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Clearing Invoice
Customer Discount
Sales Tax
Sales Cost
Thank You !
Content Producer
________________________________
Jothi Periasamy
Chief Data Scientist
Chief SAP HANA Architect
Chief Financial Solution Architect
(916)-296-0228
08/28/2015

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