FI-AR versus FI-CA Comparison

FI - Contract Accounts / Introduction

The Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable component is a subleger developed for industries with a large customer base and a correspondingly high volume of documents to post. These include the insurance, utilities, telecommunication and media industries as well as the public sector The development of the FI-CA component was focused to the mass data processing and a high degree of flexibility in functionality.

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Master Data Basic Functions Business Transactions Technical Highlights FI-CA

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Master Data - General

FI-AR Debitor
Maintenance of personal master data Maintenance of process oriented control data

FI-CA Business Partner

Maintenance of personal master data

Contract Account
different control data only available with different customer numbers Maintenance of process oriented control data n contract accounts can be assigned to one business partner

Business Partner / Contract Account

easy extensibility easily modificable

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Master Data specific Details

FI-AR Debitor
1 address per customer Fixed fields for communication Customer data and control data in a single account Address data cannot be verified

FI-CA Business Partner

n addresses allowed per partner n communication methods ( phone, fax, e-mail ) Changes possible in future Address data can be verified ( city, street, postal code )

Contract Account
Separate payment data for incoming and outgoing payments Account determination indicator for use in posting control Alternative dunning recipient / address Time restricted blocks

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Riskmanagement
FI-AR Nothing like creditworthiness available Credit management
definition and tracing of a credit limit use of SD component is recommended

FI-CA Creditworthiness
Used to assess the customer Assessment based on a basis level and additional values coming out from dunning, returns or write-offs Weighting table for time based weighting of automatic creditworthiness points Percentage factor for flat-rate increase or decrease of automatic creditworthiness

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Master Data Basic Functions Business Transactions Technical Highlights FI-CA

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Posting Assignment
FI-AR Posting Keys
Posting keys defines debits and credits General ledger accounts are entered manually in each line item Additional assignments like cost center, PSP-element, dunning, payment and interest blocks, interest indicator are entered in each line item

FI-CA Transactions
Predefined transactions are used for account assignment Additionally the account determination assignment indicator and company code are used fr account assignment Optionally cost center, PSP-element, dunning, payment and interest blocks, interest indicator can be defined for the transactions

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Posting statistical Postings

FI-AR Special General Ledger
Statistical postings are only possible with special G/L postings No automatic clearing of special G/L transactions

FI-CA Statistical Indicator

Statistical posting occurs one-sided only in the subledger. The G/L posting is only entered after payment of the statistical posting Statistical postings are handled like normal postings (dunning notice, automatic debit) in the subledger

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Tax of Sales / Purchases

FI-AR Tax Code
Tax Codes changes when the tax rate changes

FI-CA Tax Determination Code

Tax is determined using a tax determination code Tax determination code is converted into the FI tax code according to date

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Account Balance Display

FI-AR Standard Reporting FI-CA Preconfigured Line Layout Variants
Item Selection Predefined line layout variants Switch between the variants within the account balance display Variants of total variants type with preconfigured accumulation Payment list

Item selection ABAP List Viewer

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Correspondence
FI-AR Correspondence FI-CA Correspondence / Print workbench
Create formulars with complex data hierachy Individual requests or mass requests High performance for mass data processing

Create simply structured formulars Individual or periodic requests

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Content

Master Data Basic Functions Business Transactions Technical Highlights FI-CA

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Business Transactions - Overview

Interest Calculation Dunning / Collection Incoming and Outgoing Payments Returns Deferral Installment Plan Write-Offs / Transferring Integration General Ledger Accounting

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Interest Calculation
FI-AR
Account balance interest calculation Item interest calculation Batch processing Parameters are defined in master data or in document

FI-CA
Account balance interest calculation only available in special industries Item interest calculation Mass processing Processing in individual line items Interest parameters according to date Interest calculation for future periods possible using the installment plan Interest schedule Using mass processing as part of other business transactions like dunning

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Dunning
FI-AR
Maximum number of dunning levels Dunning activity is the form excluded No dunning history, only information showing which document was in the last dunning procedure

FI-CA
Variable number of dunning levels per dunning procedure n activities per dunning procedure forms, function modules, mail, workflow for external activities, and exception handling Dunning history Each dunning notice can be traced in the system at document level Dunning dependent on customer creditworthiness Transfer of dunned items to external collection agencies from dunning procedure

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Collection
FI-AR
Nothing like collection functionality available

FI-CA
Release of open items to transfer to external collection agencies Open item Management Manual or automatic processing of the collection agency information Posting of charges and interests

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Payment Run
FI-AR
Payment/repayment always to the same bank account Payment block applies to both incoming and outgoing payments No credit card processing without the SD component Amount limit possible for each bank Bank priorities are defined in Customizing Other bank only possible above amount limit, (only as alternative, not possible to reassign)

FI-CA
Payment/repayment to various bank accounts Ability to block payment and repayment separately Payment and repayment via credit card/customer card No amount limit per bank due to parallel execution Banks can be selected per run and do not have to be specified in Customizing

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Incoming Payments
FI-AR
Manual individual creation posting online using the Electronic Account Statement (FI-BL) for automatic posting and assignment Assignment by either document number, assignment, or reference Immediate posting possible, otherwise manual assignment No clarification list Only manual payment on account No partial payment upon receipt of the original document number, instead calculation of residual items

FI-CA
Automatic and manual lots can be created - a lot is a defined number of payment transactions Lot is posted automatically in the background according to defined criteria Partial payments for one document possible without needing to create new documents (residual document) Extensive clearing control If clearing is not carried out (based on the clearing criteria defined) payment is posted on account to the contract account or posted to clarification worklist Workflow integration of the clarification worklist

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Returns
FI-AR
No separate function exists Implementation is achieved through resetting of clearing, manual posting of returns, and account maintenance

FI-CA
Automatic processing of returns; creation of a return lot Manual creation of a return lot is possible The return reopens the source receivable and clears the payment posting instead Follow-up activities possible for each return reason - dependent on number of returns and creditworthiness of business partner Returns history

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Deferral
FI-AR
Deferral can only take place via the baseline date for payment. The original values are hereby lost No history

FI-CA
Due date of business partner items can be deferred without changing the original due date Information stored in document history

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Installment Plan
FI-AR
Functionality Installment Plan is not available Installments are only represented by a special payment term that generates several posting lines Deleting or changing number of installments only possible with additional posting and reversal Posting of bank charges and calculating interest on installments is not supported. This has to be carried out manually

FI-CA
Functionality Installment Plan is available Business partner items of one account and one currency can be summarized in one installment plan Integration into other business transactions like dunning or interest calculation Installment plan can include bank charges for processing and interest for expected payment arrears Installment payments are managed like partial payments on original items Installment plan can be deleted both automatically and manually

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Write-Offs / Transferring
FI-AR
Uncollectable receivables can be wrote off manually

FI-CA
Uncollectable receivables can be cleared automatically batch run Checking rules can be defined Automatic determination of the expense accounts Transferring from one business partner or one contract account to another is possible Most of the posting information will be transferred Check if transfer is possible

Transferring with or without clearing possible

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Integration General Ledger Accounting

FI-AR
Direct update of GL data No summarization

FI-CA
No direct posting to FI-GL Postings are summarized in totals records according to posting date and reconciliation key Periodic summarization and transfer of data to FI-GL One FI-GL document per totals record - one line item per account

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Content

Master Data Basic Functions Business Transactions Technical Highlights FI-CA

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Technical Highlights FI-CA

Documents are implemented with the minimum number of fields required (Repetitive structures for installments, subitems for partial payments) Document structures enables high performance processing of critical business transaction Parallel processing of mass data (Intervalls); each job processes a subarea of the data set Standard processes can be changed without modification Events: At the time of the event, the system asks whether a customer module, industry module, or standard module is to be executed

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Key Capabilities FI-CA

The following features are key capabilities of the FI-CA component::

Extensive Functionality enables automative processing of business transactions with extensive flexibility Mass Data Processing Functional Enhancement using Events
Financials functions can be tailored to precisely match the customers' need without modification and the ensuring of full future maintenance.

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Contact
For further information please contact: Martina Hilzinger SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG Neurottstrasse 15 69190 Walldorf T +49-6227/7-41848 F +49-6227/7-819114 M +49-170/2200018 E martina.hilzinger@sap.com

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