Complimentary 10-Hour SAP Financial Close Assessment
A focused, architect-led assessment designed to help organizations establish a fact-based understanding of their financial close challenges and identify practical SAP-enabled improvement opportunities — without beginning with a large consulting engagement.
Assessment Eligibility
The assessment is best suited for organizations that:
Assessment Participants
The client may nominate relevant stakeholders from across the close process. Not every stakeholder must attend every session.
Five-Day Assessment Agenda
Close Objectives and Enterprise Context
- Current close duration
- Target close duration
- Monthly, quarterly and annual close differences
- External reporting obligations
- Management reporting expectations
- Legal entity and geographic structure
- Shared services model
- Current close calendar
- Critical-path activities
- Executive pain points
- Previous improvement initiatives
- Current SAP roadmap
Operational and Subledger Dependencies
- Plant close
- Production order close
- Inventory close
- Material Ledger
- Product costing
- Goods receipt and invoice receipt
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Fixed assets
- Bank accounting
- Treasury inputs
- Payroll interfaces
- Revenue recognition
- Cutoff procedures
General Ledger and Intercompany Close
- Journal-entry process
- Manual and recurring journals
- Allocations
- Accruals and provisions
- Foreign currency valuation
- Balance-sheet reconciliations
- Suspense accounts
- Open-item management
- Intercompany billing
- Intercompany reconciliation
- Transfer-pricing adjustments
- Cross-company postings
- Parallel accounting
- Review and approval workflow
Consolidation, Reporting, Controls and Technology
- Consolidation process
- Group reporting
- Eliminations
- Top-side adjustments
- Reporting dependencies
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- External consolidation tools
- Interfaces and batch jobs
- SAP Advanced Financial Closing
- Workflow and process automation
- Data quality and master data
- Security and access
- Audit evidence and close certification
- AI-assisted exception management
Findings and Transformation Roadmap
- Key observations
- Root-cause themes
- Quick improvements
- SAP capability opportunities
- Process-standardization opportunities
- Automation candidates
- Data and integration priorities
- Governance requirements
- Target close model
- Indicative transformation sequence
- Decisions requiring executive sponsorship
- Recommended next engagement
Request Your Assessment
Complete the form below to apply for the complimentary 10-hour SAP Financial Close Assessment.
Let's Understand What Is Extending Your Financial Close
Whether you are ready to request an assessment, discuss a specific close challenge, or explore how SAPClose.com can support your team or SAP partner, we welcome the conversation.
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