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Chapter 12<br />

Financial Statement Versions (FSV)<br />

In this chapter, you learn what a financial statement version (FSV) is and go through the basic settings<br />

involved in defining financial statement versions.<br />

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to:<br />

• Explain and define financial statement versions (FSV)<br />

• Define an FSV using the appropriate specifications<br />

• Assign FSV hierarchy nodes to the appropriate G/L accounts<br />

Financial Statement Versions<br />

A Financial Statement Version (FSV) forms the basis for drawing up financial statements in SAP ERP.<br />

The primary objective of a publically-owned business is to maximize returns on investors’ equity. Therefore,<br />

the management needs to be able to ascertain the performance of the business in form reports at a given<br />

interval to help aid operational and strategic decision-making geared toward improving performance. In<br />

SAP ERP, hundreds of business transactions are posted to the general ledger in a fiscal year. But it’s not<br />

possible to know how well a business is performing from the G/L accounts that transactions are posted to.<br />

Hence, the need for FSV.<br />

FSV is part of the closing procedure in SAP ERP. It is a tool designed specifically for generating financial<br />

statements (such as profit and loss statements and balance sheets) to meet specific legal disclosure<br />

requirements related to certain items (such as assets, liabilities, income, expenses, and so on) in financial<br />

reports.<br />

SAP ERP comes with standard, predefined FSV that you can use as a template and adjust to meet<br />

your requirements. You can also define your own FSV afresh if you choose not to use the standard FSV<br />

supplied by SAP. Interestingly, you can define more than one FSV if you need to meet individual financial<br />

statement reporting needs of various stakeholders, such as the tax authority, investors, and internal<br />

management reporting.<br />

To define FSV in SAP ERP, you must specify the following items:<br />

• The items to be included in your FSV and the order and the hierarchical structure of<br />

each item<br />

• The text describing each financial statement item<br />

• The chart of accounts<br />

• Totals to be displayed in your report<br />

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