Issue

Document Splitting is a functionality which allows an organization to report complete and sound Financial Statements at a lower level than the company code out of SAP in real-time. Introducing document splitting brings about substantial benefits for business users from a reporting perspective but also increases the complexity of the solution as strict data integrity checks are being performed by the system for Financial Accounting documents to ensure that the principle of zero-balanced Financial Accounting documents and consequently also Financial Statements at the level of the defined splitting criteria (e.g. Profit Centre) is never broken in the system at any given point in time.

This KDD is therefore evaluating the pros and cons of using document splitting in the to-be solution to be built on S/4 HANA and a recommendation will be given on the preferred setup considering various aspects of the project charter.

Recommendation

Background & Context

In response to segmental reporting requirements IFRS imposed on companies required to report its Financials in accordance with the rules and regulations stipulated in the IAS framework, SAP developed a functionality which allows companies to produce complete and fully-compliant Financial Statements in the system at a lower level than the company code (e.g. at segment or profit centre level) which removed a major constraint from legacy SAP systems in terms of reporting capabilities for many SAP customers around the world. This functionality has been labeled and marketed under the name 'Document Splitting' since its initial launch.

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Evaluation

	Option A	Option B	Option C	Option D
Criterion 1	Pro Con	Pro Pro	Pro Con	Pro Con
Criterion 2	Pro Con	Con	Pro Pro	Con Con
Criterion 3	Pro	Con	Con	Pro

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