Sap Business One Implementation Notes: Financials Module

ERP implementation term itself suggests somethingposting in Journal Voucher
hard or at least not easy or not pleasant things to3. Business Partners. As in SB1 you have business
do. However if you are installing SB1 it is more likelypartners, such as customers, vendors and leads in
not going to be the case, as installation, initial balancesthe same functionality (which by the way enables
entry and modules settings are relatively intuitive andcustomer/vendor consolidation via internal
users or trainees are quick in getting basic SAP BOreconciliation for multiple partners in one screen) -
interface navigating skills. In this small article we wouldthey are typically reviewed in Financials training
like to give you highlights on Financials module4. Financial Reporting. Here, besides standard and
1. General Ledger. Accounts. Each account you canexpected Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow
classify as Title or Active account. Titles are simplyand Trial Balance, you have such cool features as
to say headers of the groups and active account isComparison reports (BS, P&L and Trial Balance only).
the one, where you can post your transactions.Comparison report allows you not only compare two
Active accounts you associate with category (suchdifferent periods, but also compare two different
as Balance Sheet->Cash for instance), categories ascompanies, which is not what you commonly find in
you can see allow you to build P&L, BS and Cashother ERP packages
Flow reports automatically. Plus you can include the5. Collection management. In SB1 you have up to 10
account into Analytical accounting by making itlevels of dunning or collection letter formats, which
associated with the Project. If you select theyou can setup for the delinquent account in sequence
Project, then account transactions will be included intoof collection attempts. Collection management is not
project financial and managerial reporting. If you aska separate module, it is integrated in Financials, as
how it is possible - the answer is this - SB1 alsoFinancials itself is tightly integrated with Business
requires you to specify account type: Other, Sales orPartners section, where customers are.
Expenditure - this is how you can include the account6. Multicurrency. This functionality is really on the
in Project P&Ladvanced level, comparing to other small business
2. Journal Vouchers. In SAP Business One you do notMRP packages in US. This is probably attributable to
have direct mechanism for batch processing,the fact, that SAP Business One is very popular in
however on the level of the modules you can useinternational environment. Multiple versions of
various transactions grouping and saving. In GL, forcurrency revaluations are very impressive.
example you save transactions for future review and