The Ultimate Guide to Auditing Order-to-cash in SAP

In our experience, the focus of an audit of business processes in SAP is often on purchase-to-pay, followed by authorizations. I don’t want to speculate about the reasons for this at this point. The aim of this article is instead to cover absolutely everything this is to know about the basics of auditing order-to-cash in […]
Don’t want to end up sitting behind bars? – Then know your delivery thresholds in SAP

In this article, we are going to deal with delivery thresholds. Contrary to popular opinion, this is not something that is only of interest to those involved in eCommerce. All enterprises with customers without value added tax liability or customers with tax-exempt revenue are the subject of focus here. In other words, it makes no […]
zap News on the tax front

The time has come around again for us to tell you a bit more about the extended functionality of zap Audit. With the new release, zap Audit 2.1, 26 new data indicators (audit questions) have been published. These include some new indicators on the subject of VAT, which I will present below. Taxes, a never-ending […]
3 steps for auditing offsetting accounts in SAP

It’s once again time for us to continue our series on Journal Entry Testing (JET)! This time, we will be focusing on the well-known topic of offsetting account analysis in SAP. What is the purpose of an offsetting account analysis? Since the very beginnings of accounting, all business transactions have been recorded using double-entry accounting. […]
Open road ahead for innovation thanks to research allowances from the German tax office

The importance of research and development in terms of innovative capacity is difficult to deny. But, until now, companies have usually been left to their own devices when it comes to answering the question: “And who is going to pay for it?” But this all looks set to change in the future, if a draft […]
Searching for unusual posting texts in SAP

Performing a check for unusual posting texts is one kind of standard analysis within the framework of Journal Entry Testing (JET). In this blog article, we will show you two possible analyses to get a quick overview of how posting texts are being handled in SAP. What is considered to be unusual and what is not is […]
How digitized is your accounting system in SAP? Three hands-on analyses for real practitioners

The digitization of accounting is certainly one of the hot topics in the accounting departments of companies of late. In this blog post, we want to look more closely at the topic of how to measure the degree of digitization in accounting in the first place. I will show you how to perform three SQL […]
Compliance doesn’t have to be your enemy…

For a few years now, a new species has been making a nuisance of itself within companies… call us the compliance departments or, in smaller companies, the lone crusaders that are compliance officers. We started to emerge in the wake of various scandals, which we don’t have to list here (any longer). Unfortunately, we have […]
Journal Entry Testing: Who posts wins – or: How much has each user posted?

In this blog post, we are once again going to devote our attention to the topic of Journal Entry Testing. I’ll show you how to use SQL in SAP to find out how much each SAP user has posted, as well as how many reversals there have been and in what time span. This gives […]
Nothing lasts forever – then again perhaps recurring entries in SAP actually do?

Nothing lasts forever, you might think. But today we are going to be talking about recurring entries. In many places, SAP offers the option of automating repetitive activities and thus minimizing the expense of, for example, the monthly posting of rent. This all sounds very good and helpful at first glance, but where there is […]