1 Central Finance Overview

With Central Finance customers can connect their distributed system landscape, which can be made up of a
combination of SAP systems of different releases and non-SAP systems, to a centralized SAP S/4HANA Finance
or SAP S/4HANA system. Financial Accounting (FI) and Management Accounting (CO) postings can be replicated
into this Central Finance system.
This allows you to establish a Central Reporting Platform for FI/CO with the option of creating a common
reporting structure. Additionally, selected financial processes can be executed centrally in this system. To
prepare common reporting structures, you can map your different accounting entities (for example, account,
profit center, or cost center) in your local systems to one common set of master data in the central system. You
can then replicate Financial Accounting and Management Accounting postings to your Central Finance system.
There, FI documents and CO postings are combined into one document; the universal journal entry. In addition, all
cost elements are part of the chart of accounts. Before you replicate CO postings to the Central Finance system,
you need to make sure that accounts are available for all cost elements. You can also replicate cost objects (for
example, internal orders) to the Central Finance system. These represent the business transactions in logistics
(for example, production, maintenance, and quality) and may not be at an appropriate granularity in the Central
Finance system. For this reason, you can choose to transfer some cost objects, such as long-living internal orders,
directly to orders and to map other cost objects, such as short-living production orders, to more long-living cost
objects, such as a production cost collector.

New Features
As of SAP S/4HANA Finance 1605 SPS 3 and SAP S/HANA 1511 FPS02 the following features are also supported:

Replication of Document Changes

Changes to financial documents (for example via transaction FB02) are now also replicated from the source
system to the Central Finance system.

Replication into Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables

Financials postings now also update FI-AP/AR if postings or clearings on customer or vendor accounts are
replicated.
For restrictions and more information, see SAP Note 2292043 .

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