Citation :

Kailash Singh, "SAP Central Finance (cFIN) Real-Time Integration Analysis with Financial Reporting," International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT), vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 45-51, 2025. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V73I12P107

Abstract

Global enterprises operating across multiple geographies often encounter significant financial challenges when managing accounting transactions and reporting across a variety of ERP systems—such as IBM, VAX, JDE, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, and InforM3. These challenges arise from the need to maintain high-quality, consistent data transparency while consolidating financial statements across complex, diverse, and highly integrated system landscapes. There are big challenges for businesses to keep a common master data model. SAP Central Finance (cFIN) provides a global approach to integrating SAP and non-SAP ERP systems, managing landscape complexity for Master data maintenance, handling specific limitations of sub-ledger fixed assets, and providing visibility for high-volume transactions as follows.

- Data Accuracy: Poor data quality in source systems is a significant obstacle, requiring clean, consistent data for CFIN to function correctly.
- System Integration: Integrating CFIN with the complex landscape of existing SAP and non-SAP systems is challenging, especially with the need for data replication.
- Master Data and Configuration Alignment: Keeping master data, functionalities, and configurations synchronized between source systems and the CFIN system is crucial for avoiding inconsistencies.

Keywords

SAP, SAP S4 CFIN, SAP S/4 HANA CFIN, Central Finance, CFIN, cFIN.

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