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This article highlights the improvements in SAP S/4HANA 2025 that simplify financial planning and analysis processes. The focus is on enabling better reporting, increased automation, and enhanced capabilities for developers, while gradually phasing out outdated tools. These updates help finance teams and developers work more efficiently and accurately.
Optimizes the processing and reporting of organizational changes in 2025.
| Other specifications | Details |
| Managing organizational changes (F4567) | New one-step option for implementing organizational changes. |
| Import of objects (F5487) | New feature for importing spreadsheets. |
| Organizational reports (F4868, F7047) | New hierarchical and list-based reports on the impact on master data. |
| CDS views for organizational changes | New views for detailed analysis of profit centers and segments. |
(1) Improvements in accounting for banks and changes to balance sheet validation
➔ Improvements increase user-friendliness, the clarity of reporting, and control over the processes for checking account balances.
| Other specifications | Details |
| Average daily stock levels | New calculation of the average balances of the previous month via GADBKFC. |
| Multi-currency accounting | New selection of depreciation areas for MCA reclassification/revaluation. |
| Improvements in balance validation | New visualization, up to 6 grouping fields, improved handling of comments. |
(2) AI-assisted journal upload
➔ AI integration optimizes journal uploads, reduces manual effort, and improves compliance and traceability.
| Other specifications | Details |
| Overview of AI-assisted uploads | New AI-generated suggestions for booking entries with mass editing. |
| Approval workflow | New roles and integration into the workflow for upload approvals. |
| Policy & Protocol Management | New PDF upload for booking policies, AI evaluation logs, improved tracking. |
| Changes to buttons/scenarios | Buttons repositioned; old intelligent scenario discontinued. |
➔ Improves the consistency of bookings and the accuracy of depreciation.
| Other specifications | Details |
| Reverse booking logic | Delta entries have been replaced by reversal entries; migration is required. |
| Depreciation calculation | Avoidance of small differences; calculation in one segment. |
| BAdI FAA_DC_CUSTOMER | New methods for reviewing investment support and determining the transaction date. |
➔ Improves the accuracy and flexibility of asset depreciation calculations.
| Other specifications | Details |
| Depreciation calculation – automatic avoidance of small differences | Prevents minor rounding differences at the end of the year; calculation is now performed in a single time segment. |
| BAdI FAA_DC_CUSTOMER | New methods for reviewing investment support and determining the 5 transaction days for depreciation; existing Investments may require reassessment. |
➔ Optimizes and automates group reporting processes, improves validation and increases flexibility in consolidations.
| Other specifications | Details |
| Average daily stock levels | Calculates the average balances of the previous month (monthly/annually). |
| Automatic bookings | Automated group postings for consolidation units/pairs. |
| Customizing for group reports | Adds industry-specific fields, breakdowns, master data fields, and validation tasks. |
| Debit/Credit Indicator in Manual Journals | Displays balances across currencies without a sign. |
| Workflow: Initiator cannot approve | The workflow initiator cannot approve their own entries. |
| Substitution/Validation: New amount fields | Adds new fields for validation/substitution in local, group, and transaction currencies. |
| COI control panels & pre-installed rules | Automates the collection of control data for activity-based consolidation. |
| Activity-based consolidation: Changing the parent element | Automatically adjusts entries when the parent entity changes. |
| Activity-based consolidation: Dividend payout | Automates the elimination of intra-group dividends and adjustments for NCI. |
| Pre-filling global parameters in job templates | Job templates are pre-filled with global parameters (which can be changed). |
| Import of reported data | Imports Excel-based data into group reporting. |
| Create totals for missing dimension values | Takes missing dimensions into account; calculates deltas without changing the totals. |
| Improvements in document item validation | Improved validation, multiple tasks per group, restriction of the data range. |
| Group journal entries: Alternative option | Enables the reversal or modification of group journal entries via workflow. |
| Alignment function: Aggregation & product help | Aggregates data during alignment; displays processed/adjusted fields. |
| Flexible upload parameter change | Improved upload mode; fewer restrictions when using multiple versions. |
| Removing task categories from "Define task" | Cleans up old categories; replaced by specialized customizing activities. |
➔ Improves replication, error handling, reporting, and the integration of modern frameworks for faster and more reliable central finance processes.
| Other specifications | Details |
| Co-production order as target object | Enables the mapping of production/process orders to CO production orders in replication. |
| Optimized error handling with AIF & ISM | Integrates AIF with AI-powered ISM to automatically detect errors and retrieve solutions. |
| Automatic creation of SLT staging tables | Embedded SLT can now automatically create staging tables for third-party interfaces. |
| AVL Version 2 (Accounting View of Logistics) | Moves AVL into the RAP framework for better performance, error handling, and reduced manual configuration effort. |
| Readiness check tool for AVL v2 | Tool for checking system readiness for the AVL v2 transformation. |
| Statutory reporting: Country-specific | Enables country-specific statutory reporting in Central Finance (e.g., Argentina, Indonesia, Romania, Singapore). |
| Centralized payment activation with flexible options | Enables flexible activation for external vendor/customer postings and intra-group transactions. |
| Interface to Management Accounting | Online replication of CO postings (including CO-PA) to Central Finance, supports cancellations and cross-group postings. |
| Central segment reporting | Converts profitability segments from service documents into actual cost objects in Central Finance. |
➔ Optimizes internal leasing processes, offers detailed financial auditing functions and improves portfolio cost analysis.
| Other specifications | Details |
| Intercompany leasing processes | Supports lease-in and lease-out processes between companies; manages contracts, periodic bookings and valuations. |
| New usage categories | Adds four new usage types for intercompany scenarios (usable and rentable properties, with/without portfolio structure). |
| Review booklet for leasing and real estate accounting | Aggregates portfolio costs in a review booklet; compares planned and actual costs; adaptable to user needs. |
