Controlling-Profitability Analysis with SAP (2nd edition)

If you're looking for a book that will help get you started with configuring Profitability Analysis (COPA) in SAP, look no further! Revised and updated, this bestseller will get you up to speed with the basic tools, methods, and key functionalities you need for a CO-PA implementation. Find what you need to make CO-PA work best for your business, and benefit from new information on integration topics, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP HANA, and more. Based on reader feedback, you'll find more coverage in this new edition on the topics you requested to help with your SAP consulting, SAP configuration, and SAP integration activities. 1. Business and Technical Knowledge: Decide whether costing- or account-based CO-PA is best for your business requirements, and understand how to configure the software for a successful implementation. 2 Step-by-Step Instructions: Follow process-oriented steps, learn how to configure master data so it can be transferred to CO-PA from other SAP components, create reports, and define your planning environments. 3. Supplement CO-PA: Learn about tools and technologies that can supplement your CO-PA practices such as SAP BPC (SAP Business Planning and Consolidation), SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects Analytics. 4. Introduction to SAP HANA: Understand what new in-memory trends mean for your ability to process and analyze businessdata with CO-PA. 5. Updated and Expanded: Benefit from expanded content on topics like top-down distribution, work in process, reportingwith CO-PA in the SAP NetWeaver BW environment, and much more. Highlights:

• Working with pre-delivered templates
• Operating concern configuration
• Reporting
• Actual value flows
• CO-PA Best Practices
• SAP Profitability Model
• Costing- and account-based CO-PA
• CO planning framework
• Top-down distribution
• SAP BusinessObjects Analytics
• SAP BusinessObjects tools
• SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
• SAP in-memory computing and HANA