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COPA in S4 HANA
COPA in S4 HANA
COPA in S4 HANA
In the past, SAP advised companies to use costing-based CO-PA rather than, account-
based CO-PA. The main reason for this was:
Companies wanted a contribution-margin report with a breakdown of their cost-
of-sales down to the cost components level for each cost bucket
They wanted a production variance report by variance categories
They wanted a breakdown of the individual cost buckets beyond the total value
that was posted to the general ledger.
This functionality was not available in COPA account base before and therefor
did the most companies use Cost Base COPA.
The biggest issue with Cost based was the reconciliation effort, because cost base
COPA did not use a direct alignment to the general ledger accounts.
SAP’s latest SAP Simple Finance product , uses SAP HANA as its primary database,
and opened up new options to build a COPA structures aligned with the general ledger.
Due to this SAP enhanced Account-based CO-PA in SAP Simple Finance to provide:
Detailed information on the cost of goods, break down cost-of-sales to the cost
component of each cost bucket
Production variances by variance categories
Invoice quantities
Reconciliation between COPA and the GL at Account level
Due to this new functionality in Simple finance SAP is now advised companies to use
account-based CO-PA and not costing-based CO-PA.