Preface A Practical Guide to Controlling with SAP Acknowledgments Introduction Basic Controlling Functions Essential Record-Keeping Functions Managing Close and Valuation Processes Preparing Budgets and Planning Process Analysis and Internal Controls Summary Reporting Cost Center Line Items Order Line Items Product Costs: Itemization Classic Reports for Product Cost Reporting Product Costs: Cost Objects Material Ledger/Actual Costing Profitability Analysis Reports Summary Master Data Owned by Controlling How to Set Up Cost Centers Internal Orders Statistical Key Figures Activity Types Secondary Cost Elements Product Cost Collectors Cost Object Hierarchies Maintenance Issues Change Requests for a SOX-Compliant Master Data Process Summary Master Data for Which Controlling Is a Stakeholder Material Masters Customer Masters Bills of Material Routings Work Centers and Resources Procurement Alternatives and Mixed Costing Projects Investment Programs Primary Cost Elements and Profit and Loss Accounts Setting Prices for Product Costing Summary Planning and Budgeting Complete Sales Plan in a Manufacturing Environment Planning and Budgeting for Investment Programs Summary Actual Postings Integrated Process Flows: Buy, Make, and Sell Distribution of Usage Variances Integrated Process Flows: Other Logistics Scenarios Corrections or Adjustment Postings Cross-Company Postings Summary Period Close Allocations Calculations and Settlement Multilevel Actual Costing in the Material Ledger CO-PA Processes Summary Reporting in SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects Reporting on Large Data Volumes in SAP ERP How to Decide Whether You Need SAP BW for Reporting Cost Center Reporting in SAP BW Reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Tools Summary Master Data in a Multisystem/Shared Service Environment Change Requests in SAP ERP New Solutions for Handling Master Data in a Multisystem Environment Governance Requirements for Master Data Creating Change Requests in a Shared Service Center Summary Planning Using SAP BW Technologies Planning Applications in SAP ERP Planning Applications in SAP BW Summary Allocations Using SAP Profitability and Cost Management Template Allocations in SAP ERP Allocations in SAP PCM Customer Value Analysis Using SAP PCM Summary Period Close Using the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit New Options for Accelerating the Period Close Closing Tasks in Multiple Systems Transparency within the Close Summary Controlling with New Technologies Controlling with SAP HANA SAP Fiori Applications Summary SAP S/4HANA and Controlling The Universal Journal The Material Ledger Profitability Analysis Reporting in SAP Fiori Planning Summary and Postscript The Author Index.