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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Content

1 Master Data

2 Basic Functions

3 Business Transactions

4 Technical Highlights FI-CA

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Master Data - General
FI-AR FI-CA
Debitor Business Partner
Maintenance of personal Maintenance of personal
master data master data
Maintenance of process oriented
control data
Contract Account
Maintenance of process oriented
control data
different control data only available n contract accounts can be
with different customer numbers 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
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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 FI-CA

Nothing like Creditworthiness

creditworthiness
available
Credit management
definition and tracing of a
credit limit
use of SD component is
recommended
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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Content

1 Master Data

2 Basic Functions

3 Business Transactions

4 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
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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
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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 FI-CA
Tax Code Tax Determination Code
Tax is determined using a tax
Tax Codes changes when the tax
determination code
rate changes
Tax determination code is converted into
the FI tax code according to date

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Account Balance Display
FI-AR
Standard Reporting
Item selection
ABAP List Viewer
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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
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Correspondence
FI-AR FI-CA
Correspondence Correspondence /
Print workbench
Create simply structured formulars
Create formulars with complex data
Individual or periodic requests
hierachy
Individual requests or mass requests
High performance for mass data
processing

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Content

1 Master Data

2 Basic Functions

3 Business Transactions

4 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
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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
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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 FI-CA

Nothing like collection functionality Release of open items to transfer to

available 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
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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
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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 FI-CA
Deferral can only take place via the Due date of business partner items
baseline date for payment. can be deferred without changing the
The original values are hereby lost original due date
No history 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
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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
Transferring with or without clearing
possible
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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
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Integration General Ledger Accounting
FI-AR
Direct update of GL data
No summarization
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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

1 Master Data

2 Basic Functions

3 Business Transactions

4 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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