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F72: Financial Balances
The most comprehensive financial balance tracking solution you've ever used.
Overview
The F72 Financial Balances stack provides comprehensive general ledger reporting with the unique capability to track accumulated balances over time within SAP environments. Building on the foundation of the F70 Financial Activity stack, this solution extends financial visibility by combining transactional activity with running balances, offering 8 specialized key figures across multiple currency dimensions. The stack delivers essential balance tracking for asset accounts, liabilities, and equity positions while maintaining extensive dimensional flexibility for detailed financial reporting.
F72 Financial Balances Stack Documentation
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Key Capabilities
The F72 Financial Balances stack enhances financial analysis through:
• Combined view of transactional activity and accumulated balances within a single reporting solution
• Support for three currency perspectives: transactional, local, and global currencies
• Period-over-period balance tracking with historical comparison capabilities
• Comprehensive GL account monitoring across the entire chart of accounts
Users gain immediate visibility into both flow metrics (activity) and stock metrics (balances), enabling more complete financial analysis. This dual perspective is particularly valuable for tracking asset accounts, bank GL positions, fixed asset valuations, and liability accounts where current balance information is critical for financial decision-making.
Enhanced Reporting Features
Standard SAP financial reporting often separates activity and balance reporting, creating disconnects in analysis. The SNAP F72 stack addresses these limitations by providing:
An integrated view that presents both transaction volumes and resulting account balances in real-time. This unified perspective eliminates the need to reconcile between different reports, ensuring consistent financial understanding across the organization.
The F72 stack delivers comprehensive balance analysis through key figures representing three distinct currency perspectives, allowing finance teams to evaluate positions in transaction currency, local reporting currency, and global consolidation currency simultaneously. These multi-currency capabilities can be viewed across the extensive dimensions available in the stack, giving users the flexibility to analyze balances from multiple angles.
Delivery & Integration
The F72 Financial Balances stack is delivered through flexible interfaces that meet users where they work:
The primary interface is SAP Analysis for Office, allowing finance teams to leverage Excel's familiarity while maintaining direct connectivity to SAP data. This Excel-based delivery also enables additional custom calculations to be created directly within the output. For broader accessibility, the solution can be exposed through SAP Analytics Cloud dashboards or extracted to external systems when needed.
Security follows established patterns with configurable role-based access controls that align with existing SAP authorization structures.
Business Benefits
Implementing the F72 Financial Balances stack delivers immediate value through:
• Real-time visibility into account balances without waiting for period-end processing
• Accurate tracking of key financial positions including bank accounts and fixed assets
• Simplified reconciliation through integrated activity and balance reporting
• Consistent multi-currency perspective across all financial dimensions
• Seamless compatibility with existing F70 and F71 reporting stacks
Finance teams gain a complete view of both financial flows and positions. This comprehensive visibility empowers business partners with actionable insights to monitor liquidity, track asset valuations, and support strategic decision-making—all without having to dive deep into SAP.
Technical Foundation
The solution operates natively within both SAP ECC and S/4HANA environments, leveraging Core Data Services (CDS) views for real-time reporting. The architecture maintains high performance even with substantial transaction volumes while eliminating data replication concerns.
As part of the SNAP solution suite, the F72 Financial Balances stack receives regular enhancements through a managed service model, ensuring continuous improvement without client-side development efforts.