Treasury Management: Purpose

Treasury comprises the components Cash Management, Treasury Management, Loans and Market Risk Management. The treasurer uses the analyses of the current liquidity and risk situation to make decisions about future company investments and borrowings, taking the conditions on the financial markets into account. The resulting financial transactions are then entered in Treasury Management. The targets of Treasury Management are: to support management of financial transactions and positions from the trading stage through back office processing to the transfer to Financial Accounting. To provide flexible reporting to analyze financial transactions and positions.

Treasury Management comprises the components Basic Functions, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Securities.

Integration
Treasury Management is linked to Cash Management, Market Risk Management and Financial Accounting. The following graphic shows the components and interfaces of SAP Treasury.

To call up Treasury Management, choose Accounting Treasury Treasury Management. From here, you can branch directly to the individual components.

Features
You enter transactions and exercise rights under the trading area, where the following utilities are available: - date check - NPV calculator - cross rate calculator - option price calculator - option spread - securities account overview - collective processing - fast entry templates - input help You check and settle your transactions under back office processing. You can keep a check on your transactions using: - the release procedure - authorization management (transaction authorizations, trader authorizations) In addition, correspondence functions are available: - dealing slips - confirmation letters/files In the securities area, position management includes functions for: - position valuation - corporate actions to represent changes in capital - securities account transfers - balance sheet account transfers The Accounting area provides the following functions: - posting functions relating to flows for specified and non-specified periods - enhanced payment program for payment requests - period end closing - accrual/deferral and valuation functions Information System - link to SAP drilldown reporting tool - journal - payment plan - posting overview - position evaluations Market data - transfer real-time market data via datafeed - market data file interface - manual maintenance

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