Journal Entry Testing: Completely happy or unhappy gaps?
Journal Entry Testing (JET) examines the very basic requirements of accounting, the “Foundations of Accounting”, so to speak. In this blog post, we want to take a closer look at these basic requirements and show how, with SQL in your SAP, you can quickly and easily check whether document numbers are unique and whether they […]
Everybody is talking about it – but we are actually doing it: Journal Entry Testing in SAP
Journal Entry Testing (JET) contains standard analyses for use in auditing and especially in the context of annual audits. JET analyzes the accounting material in the accounts with regard to matters which are of general interest, i.e. those which are not tailored to the specifics of the company: the largest postings, most frequent postings, postings […]
How to use credit memos to break down your liquidity planning
Energy companies that provide reimbursements for the electricity generated by solar systems and wind farms or companies with many suppliers, e.g. those from the automotive sector and in online trading, now make extensive use of credit memos to make their task easier. But what are the potential pitfalls of this? In this article, we show […]
Darkness favors secret dealings, or in other words: Let’s do Journal Entry Testing again!
If an auditor examines his or her accounting data, the keyword often turns out to be: Journal Entry Testing. In addition to the highest, most frequent and most problem-free amounts, one’s attention is most often drawn to: Weekend postings. Of course, you can also detect weekend postings immediately with zap Audit. But this is something […]
What’s what? – A short tour through the world of SAP
You can sometimes overhear some interesting things being said in the corridors at conferences and the terms SAP S/4, SAP HANA and SAP C/4 are often used synonymously. In this article, I will explain not only that there are indeed technological differences between SAP products but also that some of them are actually built on […]
I think my transfer price may be attracting attention: When the taxman rings thrice
Transfer pricing is a sensitive issue. Especially when it comes to the tax authorities. Transfer prices often serve as “marshalling yards” for shunting profits around between Group companies. After all, which company would not rather report a high profit in a low-tax country than in a high-tax country (such as Germany)? In this blog post, […]
Lost in Space: Finding Missing Documents in the Optical Archive
In one of our recent blog articles, we briefly presented three indicators from which our readers could choose the most interesting and exciting indicator that they would like us to look at in more detail in the future. Thank you very much for your active participation and, as promised, we will now present item No. […]
The big costs test: Do you have unallocated costs in SAP?
In this blog post, we look at the basic relationships between external and internal accounting in SAP, and, more precisely: between expenses in external accounting and their allocation to elements in cost accounting, such as cost centers or cost objects. A simple analysis consists of looking to see whether there are expenses in accounting that […]
Who’s been fiddling around with my SAP system? – this is how you can tell!
For SAP to work the way you need it to in your company, you have to adjust the system extensively to the individual requirements of your organization – this is also known as “customizing”. If the customizing is changed, the way your SAP system behaves is also changed. Therefore, you should always be able to […]
3-Way-Match Part 2: Cheap to order, but expensive to buy – When can something like that happen?
In this blog post, we are going to take another look at the 3-Way Match. This time it’s about an order being placed at the beginning of a purchase process and there of course being an invoice at the other end. Things start to get interesting when the amounts on the order suddenly turn out […]