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SAP ACR – автоматизация формирования отчётности с помощью инструмента Advanced Сompliance Reporting
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Advance compliance reporting with SAP S/4 HANA (ACR) – 1909 onPremise
Introduction
Advance compliance reporting (ACR) is centrally managed statutory reporting.
ACR FIORI applications come with embedded analytics. Countries like UK/India allow direct integration and API interface with government portal.It has optional Flexible workflow approval and manual or automatic update of submission status. ACR Fiori application generates legal reports in diverse output format such as XML, PDF, TXT or XBLR to meet specific government regulations.
ACR activation comes with two types Basic and fully licensed. Basic feature activation will have certain limitations.
Pre Delivered ACR reports
ACR compliance reporting framework and configuration steps and pre requisite
Area
Activity
Details
All
Keep system in sync for new compliance patches and notes
2382863 – How to use the Announcement of Legal Changes application – SAP ONE Support Launchpad
2381572 – Stay tuned! Do not miss a legal change announcement [VIDEO]
Activate FIOR application – F1597 Post tax payable
And F0717- Manage Journal Entries
You use this app to pay tax amounts by posting the balances of input and output tax accounts to a tax payable account
Make manual adjustments to tax accounts directly.
FIORI
F3172-Manage Tax Items for Legal Reporting
The selection of the tax items is based on the tax reporting date field. Refer to SAP note 1038448. However, if the tax reporting date is not available, the system considers the posting date or the document date. However, the actual tax item selection depends on the country and the functionality.
To use full functionality of this application Inclusion and Exclusion Activate tax reporting date for specific entity into OBY6
SPRO – Backend functional config.
Basic SPRO configurations
Make the required settings in Customizing for Financial Accounting under Advanced Compliance Reporting Setting Up Your Compliance Reporting. Refer SAP documentation link and setup steps for individual report ID configuration and reporting activity.
Entity specific parameters can be added manually
Submission due date can be set as fixed values example 25 day of next month or it can be derived from Tax calendar
SPRO – Backend functional config.
Other Supporting configuration and tax box structure
Based on SAP document setup tax box structure if applicable
Consult your basis consultant for below configurations
Business function activation
Activate license analytics refer to SAP Note : 2879813
Basis
BgRFC / Inbound destination
Ensure content server service is active and technical user setup is complete to process documents request
DMS – Default SAP / Attachment services
DMS configuration and manage documentation setup based on SAP note 2868459
Enable PC server configuration
Refer to SAP STD catalogues given in FIORI library Link
Blog post provide details of ACR functionality for all SAP Finance / Basis consultants who support applications of the legal reports for the customer’s business to remain compliant.
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Advance compliance reporting with SAP S/4 HANA (ACR) – 1909 onPremise
Introduction
Advance compliance reporting (ACR) is centrally managed statutory reporting.
ACR FIORI applications come with embedded analytics. Countries like UK/India allow direct integration and API interface with government portal.It has optional Flexible workflow approval and manual or automatic update of submission status. ACR Fiori application generates legal reports in diverse output format such as XML, PDF, TXT or XBLR to meet specific government regulations.
ACR activation comes with two types Basic and fully licensed. Basic feature activation will have certain limitations.
Pre Delivered ACR reports
ACR compliance reporting framework and configuration steps and pre requisite
Area
Activity
Details
All
Keep system in sync for new compliance patches and notes
2382863 – How to use the Announcement of Legal Changes application – SAP ONE Support Launchpad
2381572 – Stay tuned! Do not miss a legal change announcement [VIDEO]
*Refer FIORI Library for activations and service details
Define advance compliance report application
Activate FIOR application – F1597 Post tax payable
And F0717- Manage Journal Entries
You use this app to pay tax amounts by posting the balances of input and output tax accounts to a tax payable account
Make manual adjustments to tax accounts directly.
The selection of the tax items is based on the tax reporting date field. Refer to SAP note 1038448. However, if the tax reporting date is not available, the system considers the posting date or the document date. However, the actual tax item selection depends on the country and the functionality.
To use full functionality of this application Inclusion and Exclusion Activate tax reporting date for specific entity into OBY6
Basic SPRO configurations
Make the required settings in Customizing for Financial Accounting under Advanced Compliance Reporting Setting Up Your Compliance Reporting. Refer SAP documentation link and setup steps for individual report ID configuration and reporting activity.
Entity specific parameters can be added manually
Submission due date can be set as fixed values example 25 day of next month or it can be derived from Tax calendar
SPRO – Backend functional config.
Other Supporting configuration and tax box structure
Based on SAP document setup tax box structure if applicable
Consult your basis consultant for below configurations
Business function activation
Activate license analytics refer to SAP Note : 2879813
Ensure content server service is active and technical user setup is complete to process documents request
DMS – Default SAP / Attachment services
DMS configuration and manage documentation setup based on SAP note 2868459
Enable PC server configuration
Refer to SAP STD catalogues given in FIORI library Link
Blog post provide details of ACR functionality for all SAP Finance / Basis consultants who support applications of the legal reports for the customer’s business to remain compliant.
Advanced Compliance Reporting (ACR): Key Pointers for Successful Implementation
Advanced Compliance Reporting (ACR) is a new reporting tool, which is available with S/4HANA On Premise and Cloud Editions. It is a single frame architecture and one of the value adds in S/4HANA which allows the customers to create, generate and submit compliance reports to the Governments and Tax Authorities on time and in required formats. The tool helps to ensure that the reports are compliant with complex and ever changing legal requirements. This has become even more pertinent with COVID 19 where the legal changes are being introduced too fast and must be implemented in a very short period. ACR as a tool provides the required file formats and end to end integration with Tax Authorities in specific countries like India, UK, Netherlands etc and the list is only increasing.
Why ACR needs to be implemented in S/4HANA?
In my view, lot of customers do ask the rationale for implementing ACR. There are lot of reasons, why ACR needs to be implemented for customers who are on S/4HANA.
Traditional reports are going out of Product Support – With S/4HANA, lot of traditional tax and legal reports are going out of Product Support. This is one of the primary reasons, why a customer should implement ACR Reports. The list of legal reports, which are going out of Product Support are defined in OSS Note # 2835816 and 2480067
Integration with Government and Tax Authorities – In many countries, it is a legal requirement to submit the Tax and Legal reports electronically through an interface. In S/4HANA Environment, ACR is the go to tool to address the requirements. Examples of such countries are:
Common Tax Reporting – There are lot of SAP Customers, who have global instances and offices spread across the globe. Implementing a tool like ACR ensures, that the way tax reporting is done is harmonized in a common framework and minimizes external dependencies
New Legal Changes in Complex Countries, especially in LATAM and Asia – The legal reporting framework in Many countries like Brazil and India is very complex. SAP has introduced a tool sometime back called as Tax Declaration Framework (TDF) as a sidecar implementation for ERP Customers for Tax Reporting in Brazil. The tool provides key reporting capabilities includes Audit Preparation, Predictive analsysis of fiscal information. The same TDF framework can now created reports out of ACR Framework, there by reducing the architecture complexity and capital cost. The TDF Capabilities for Brazil are now supported since S/4HANA 1809 FPS 2 and updwards for On Premise version and from S/4HANA 1902 Cloud Edition. In addition to Brazil, complex countries in terms of taxation like China for Audit Reports, India for GSTR 1 and 2 and other reports are now supported and being constantly updated, which reduces lot of application development and maintenance costs for the customers
While there are lot of value enablers for implementation of ACR overall for the customers, there are certain specific areas, which need to be kept in mind, especially if ACR is being implemented for S/4HANA On Premise. The below summary provides an overview of the various topics to be considered for ACR Implementation in addition to all the technical set up and configuration. The starting point for implementation of ACR (S/4HANA 1609 and upwards On Premise Edition) are OSS Notes 2435114, 2460073, 2374069 and 2465179
Key Considerations for ACR Implementation:
Mapping existing VAT Reports submitted in prior periods to ACR Configuration – This is one of the most difficult and time exhaustive task for ACR Implementation. In my implementation experience, the transactional data is not set up correctly and the tax users create compliant reports in excel based on transactional data in the system. This is a harsh reality. A early and very critical step would be to use a mapping document for old submitted reports with the configuration steps. A simple example : In one of my projects, Philippines had the same Tax Code A0 with 0% for sales to Govt Customers, Trade Customers and to Military. However, in the tax reports it was required that sales should be shown in the below format:
Sales to Trade Customers
In such a case, we create new tax codes, so that the tax reports can also show the data correctly in the ACR Reports. This is just one very simple example of how changes in the process are required for the implementation of ACR and subsequent correct reporting out of the box. Other such changes, that were completed during implementation of ACR Reports in various countries in my implementation were:
These are just some of the process changes which were required to make sure, that we could get the correct tax reports directly out of the system using ACR as a tool and eliminate dependence on excels and third party providers for drawing tax reports
Products Gaps in ACR – One of the biggest problems faced during ACR implementation was various product gaps in ACR. Our project team had a very close collaboration with SAP Development team. This included us providing feedback on various gaps in the reports so that they could be corrected and updated in the product. During the implementation time, some of the key product gaps encountered were:
User Enablement and Training– The ACR Implementation for my customer was huge, with almost 21 countries across all continents in a span of around eight months. The customer also had shared service centers (SSC) in Singapore, Argentina and Prague, where the initial reports for ACR were run by Finance Associates with final submission by the Market Unit’s Tax Managers. Covering almost 70+ end users, the key success to successful implementation of ACR was the early enablement of key and power users from the design stage itself. The enablement for the reports for such a geographically spread team across the globe.
The fact that ACR had a common user experience across countries, even though the report output was country specific was a big plus to be able to train and enable the end consumers of the reports in a very short time.
Issues from the Tax Authorities and Government– One of the major impedents in the implementation of ACR was the available Test System of various countries for testing. Eg, in UK, the HMRS does not validate the content of the reports. It just validates that the report is in the right format. So the VAT and EC Sales list reports for UK could be validated only in the Production System if the data was right or not. Additionally, in LATAM Countries, the changes introduced are quite frequent and not updated in the Test system, which creates testing of new changes a nightmare for IT and Business Colleagues.
Skill requirements for ACR Implementation – One of the key success factors for implementation of ACR is to have the right skills in the implementation group. The key skills required for ACR Implementation are: FIORI, ABAP with SCP Integration, Security, Functional Consultants with a very rich tax experience.
In a nutshell, ACR is a very rich tool for Tax and Legal reporting which can be rolled out quickly. However, the key things pointed are absolutely critical for successful adoption and roll out.
SAP Central Finance & Advanced Compliance Reporting (ACR)
In this blog i have summarised what SAP Advanced Compliance Reporting is and how it is helpful to the customers specially in complex environments having multiple source systems. It is best to leverage on top of SAP S/4HANA in SAP Central Finance scenario where SAP and Non-SAP systems are replicating Financial data to SAP S/4HANA.
Without SAP Central Finance as well when single instance of SAP S/4HANA is used the ACR is helpful from compliance perspective.
Advanced Compliance Reporting is a unique and competitive legal reporting solution that allows you to manage your regulatory requirements across the globe. The solution offers features that ensure your complex and diverse legal reporting needs are addressed in uniform, easy to use, and efficient manner. SAP Advanced Compliance Reporting (ACR) is available for SAP S/4HANA OPE and Cloud both. Its helps customers with managing the legal reporting comprehensively.
Since ECC is phasing out in few years, lot of legal changes are surfacing in different countries it is imperative to implement SAP ACR. Also, many legal authorities ask to directly submit the tax records electronically like Spain implemented SII, Brazil has NF-e
With SAP Central Finance, it make sense to put ACR as all the Financial data is being replicated to SAP S/4HANA system from several source systems so rather doping the legal reporting from different systems, why not to leverage SAP S/4HANA
SAP ACR with S/4HANA has transformed the legal reporting completely.
source – SAP
What used to happen:
ACR aims to simplify the returns process regardless of the country. Therefore, the solution:
Main Features of Define Compliance Reports are:
Main Features of Run Compliance Reports are:
source – SAP
TWO Main Fiori Apps are:
In next blog I will explain the configuration as well as how to use these apps in addition to list of relevant SAP notes.
