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SAP financial modules give customers the whole picture of the accounting functions, with extensive report facilities to allow for fast decision-making support. They are also perfectly suited for international corporations with multiple subsidiaries, including support for foreign currencies and multilingual capabilities.

The financial area contains the following module groups:

• FI. Financial accounting
• CO. Controlling
• EC. Enterprise controlling
• IM. Capital investment management
• TR. Treasury

FI: Financial Accounting
These modules constitute the operational aspects of the general accounting and financial information for the enterprise. They connect and integrate with other financial modules such as treasury and controlling, as well as parts of human resources, such as payroll and travel expenses. Also, the transactions of accounts receivable and accounts payable are directly related to the sales and distribution and purchasing modules. The following list contains the financial accounting modules. Each one includes multiple business processes and capabilities.

FI-AA Asset accounting
FI-AP Accounts payable
FI-AR Accounts receivable
FI-GL General ledger accounting
FI-LC Consolidation
FI-SL Special purpose ledger

An important aspect of the financial accounting system is the real-time generation of the current balance and profit and loss sheets.

CO: Controlling
This module is used to represent the company’s cost structures and the factors that influence them. The module includes areas such as cost controlling, product and production cost controlling, and profitability analysis.

The CO module is intended to answer key management questions such as “What does a product or service cost?” To answer that, the CO product costing system uses different valuation strategies and quantity structures, enabling the cost of manufactured goods to be planned as precisely as possible. With the help of a planned/actual comparison, the CO module enables users to quickly recognize weak points in the production process. The following lists the controlling modules and their descriptions.
CO-ABC Activity-based costing
CO-OM Overhead cost control
CO-PA Sales and profitability analysis
CO-PC Product cost controlling

EC: Enterprise Controlling
The EC module is another very important decision-making tool which monitors the critical success factors and key figures of the company from a controller’s point of view.

The executive information system (EIS) is basically a collection of tools which helps to quickly filter and analyze the enterprise’s most important data and get critical and up-to-date business information into graphical form or customized reports. With the management consolidation (EC-MC) system, subsidiary data, even from different countries and with different legal regulations, passes directly into the central MC system, automatically performing all the required consolidation work.

The EC module allows profit analysis for independent business areas of a company. The system takes care of automatically retrieving and grouping the necessary information for this process. The following list contains the areas included in the enterprise controlling module group.
EC-EIS Executive information system
EC-MC Management consolidation
EC-PCA Profit center accounting

IM: Capital Investment Management
IM is a new SAP release 3.0 module designed to plan and manage capital investment projects and budgets. It is also used for monitoring the bookkeeping functions associated with assets under construction on capital investment projects and orders. It consists of two parts:
IM Capital investment management (programs)
IM-FA Tangible fixed assets (measures)

TR: Treasury
The treasury module of SAP R/3 integrates cash management and forecasting with the financial and logistics-related applications. It provides tools to analyze budgeting, process electronic account statements, analyze foreign money markets, and so forth. The following list shows the components of the treasury module.
TR-CM Cash management
TR-FM Funds management
TR-TM Treasury management
TR-MRM Market Risk Management

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