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Blocking a Profit Center from posting in SAP should be easy, right?  Well, it is, but there is one little trick you need to know, or you will spend hours trying to figure out why you can still post to your supposedly blocked profit center.

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There are a few things, well maybe more than a few, that SAP asks you to just take on faith.  Running the Classic GL on ECC 6.0 or prior (4.6 c, etc), the Cash Discount calculation (also known as the Profit Loss Adjustments calculation, T-code: F.50) is one of them.

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SAP allocations, or more precisely, Assessments and Distributions offer a lot of flexibility in their design.  So much so, that you can get lost in the details pretty quickly.  We recently discovered a flaw in our approach to distributing Gross Margin from non-sales profit centers.  The problem was that the distribution did not carry the Functional Area of the original postings.  In fact, it was posting the default functional area for revenue accounts (instead of using the FA of the Senders), thus skewing a couple of metrics.  Luckily, the fix turned out to be really simple, even if it had to repeated a couple hundred times . (more…)

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Last night, I caught an interview on PBS betweeen Charlie Rose and Leo Apotheker, co-CEO of SAP,  and Andrew McAfee, a faculty and researcher in IT at Harvard Bus. School.  It was very interesting to get Leo’s take on the world, business, and SAP.  You can check out the interview here.  I highly recommend it for those of you who live in the SAP cosmos.  Rose does such an excellent job of interviewing his guests; he always seems to get to the heart of what they’re about.  

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A question that is often asked is, how do you get an SAP job?  There is a very simple answer to that…get some SAP experience and the rest is fairly straight forward.  Experience is a major part of the equation in the job world.  And almost everybody who has ever applied for a job has thrown up their hands at some point and screamed, “How can I get experience if they won’t hire me?”

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GAAP is out…IFRS is in.  At least that’s the plan according to the SEC.  We in the US are all about to get some schooling on how the rest of the world does accounting.  The SEC has outlined the roadmap for making the jump in the US to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).  While the mandatory transition may seem far into the future with the broad transition to IFRS proposed to begin in 2014, the effects on US companies will begin years earlier. Thank goodness the SEC is giving us some time to get ready for the test.  This transition will not only be a major workout for US based corporate accounting departments, but IT departments will get in on the fun as well as they implement the methodology in their systems. (more…)

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When SAP or ASUG put on keynotes, it’s like the start of some very cool, very hip rock concert, and then they start talking about business software.  No iPod’s, no MacBook Air’s or iPhones, nothing that is going to overtly revolutionize the world, so the build up is a little misleading.  But still, if your job revolves around the SAP sun, it’s about the coolest thing you’re going to get to see that’s job related. (more…)

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