From the course: SAP S/4 HANA Financial Accounting Overview

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General Ledger: Reporting

General Ledger: Reporting

- [Instructor] So in terms of General Ledger Reporting, what is special about S/4 HANA Financial Reporting is that the real time embedded OLAP reporting, or online analytical processing reporting is not possible without extracting to a data warehouse. Now the recent years there's been very common to extract data from all the versions of SAP 2 at a data warehouse, but for direct operational financial processing where there data is single sourced from SAP, you cannot do it directly in SAP, while the Fiori Apps because it's a new high speed in memory database. And you can always drill-down to source documents for details. This is a key concept that's new in S/4 HANA. So if we think about what are the common reports, so we generally will have Financial Statements, Account Balances and Line Items, a Trial Balance, and let's say, for Management Reporting, you might want to look at Profit Centers, Cost Centers, or Profitability Analysis. So in this example, this Fiori Tile, called Display…

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