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F80: Direct Cashflow
Consistent and accurate cashflow reporting, at last.
Overview
The F80 Direct Cashflow stack provides comprehensive cash movement tracking and visibility directly within SAP environments. Built on Core Data Services (CDS) views, this solution delivers real-time and historical cashflow insights that SAP cannot provide natively, enabling treasury and finance teams to monitor actual cash movements with complete accuracy across all clearing scenarios. The stack addresses critical gaps in SAP's native cashflow reporting by tracking clearing document lifecycles and preventing silent historical data loss during AR/AP clearing resets.
F80 Direct Cashflow Stack Documentation
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Key Capabilities
The F80 Direct Cashflow stack transforms how organizations monitor and analyze their cash movements:
• Comprehensive cash tracking across all cash account GL movements, cleared AR/AP transactions, and designated cash document types
• Daily granular visibility with calendar, posting fiscal, and cash date fiscal metrics
• Clearing lifecycle management that accurately tracks when documents become cash-designated, unmarked, or re-marked
• Historical accuracy preservation that prevents silent data loss during clearing resets
Users gain immediate access to accurate cashflow positions that reflect true cash movements, including the complex scenarios where clearing documents are reset. This capability is essential for treasury operations, working capital analysis, and cash forecasting where understanding actual cash timing drives critical financial decisions.
Enhanced Reporting Features
Standard SAP lacks native direct cashflow reporting capabilities and cannot accurately track the historical impact of clearing resets. The SNAP F80 stack addresses these fundamental limitations by providing:
Complete visibility into cash movements that would otherwise be invisible or inaccurately reported in SAP. When AR or AP clearing documents are reset after initial clearing, standard SAP reporting silently drops the historical cash impact. F80 preserves historical accuracy by reporting positive cashflow during the original clearing period and negative cashflow during the reset period, providing a true representation of cash movement over time.
The solution tracks multiple time dimensions simultaneously, enabling users to analyze cashflow based on document posting dates, calendar periods, and the critical "cash date" when documents officially became cash-designated. This multi-dimensional time tracking supports sophisticated cash analysis including timing differences between transaction recognition and cash realization.
Delivery & Integration
The F80 Direct Cashflow stack is delivered through a flexible approach that meets users where they work:
The primary interface is SAP Analysis for Office, allowing treasury and finance teams to leverage the familiarity of Excel while maintaining direct connectivity to SAP data. For organizations seeking broader access, the solution can be exposed through Fiori tiles or connected to dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloud.
Security is maintained through configurable role-based access controls that align with existing SAP authorization structures, including restrictions by user authority levels and company code.
Business Benefits
Implementing the F80 Direct Cashflow stack delivers immediate value through:
• Accurate cashflow reporting that eliminates silent historical data loss
• Complete visibility into cash movements across all transaction types
• Enhanced working capital analysis through precise cash timing tracking
• Improved cash forecasting with reliable historical patterns
• Comprehensive audit trails for cleared and reset transactions
• Daily granular cash position monitoring
Treasury teams gain the ability to monitor actual cash movements in real-time with complete confidence in historical accuracy. Finance teams can perform sophisticated working capital analysis and cash forecasting based on reliable data that accounts for the complex realities of clearing document lifecycles. The solution enables accurate cash position reporting for both internal management and external compliance requirements.
Technical Foundation
The solution operates natively within SAP ECC and S/4HANA environments, leveraging Core Data Services (CDS) views built on the general ledger foundation. In S/4HANA implementations, the solution utilizes the ACDOCA table, while ECC implementations work with a recreated ACDOCA structure to ensure consistent functionality across platforms.
The architecture tracks clearing document lifecycles from the go-live date forward, preserving historical cash positions as of implementation and maintaining complete accuracy for all subsequent cash movements. This approach eliminates data replication concerns while providing performance optimized for daily cash reporting requirements.
As part of the SNAP solution suite, the F80 Direct Cashflow stack receives regular enhancements through a managed service model, ensuring continuous improvement without client-side development efforts.