Margin analysis is now the standard for CO-PA in SAP S/4HANA—master it with this all-in-one resource! Get click-by-click instructions for configuring your master data, establishing operating concerns and value flows, and more to set up margin analysis in SAP S/4HANA. Walk through planning your COGS, sales, and overhead costs. See what’s changed for margin analysis, including new reporting options with SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Datasphere. This book provides all the guidance you need for each step of your costing-based profitability operations! Configure margin analysis in SAP S/4HANA - Perform profitability planning with your data - Run key profitability reports using SAP Fiori and SAP GUI - Third edition, updated and revised Configuration Customize SAP S/4HANA for your business needs! Follow step-by-step instructions to configure margin analysis, from setting up operating concerns to creating, assigning, and maintaining characteristics. User Operations Get detailed guidance on sales, COGS, and overhead cost planning in SAP S/4HANA. Create predictive data, and then transfer billing documents, COGM, and variances to margin analysis. Reporting Master the basics of profitability reporting. Learn how to use tools for predictive accounting, and then explore CDS views, ABAP reports, and SAP HANA Live. Discover new options for reporting through SAP Datasphere and SAP BTP. Basic settings - Master data - Organizational data - Characteristics - Value flows - Operating concerns - Cost center assessment - Costing-based profitability analysis - Planning - Reporting Kathrin Schmalzing is a partner at PwC who specializes in financials and controlling software implementations, business process analysis and transformation, and value flow analysis. Kathrin has been working with the SAP ERP Controlling module for more than 20 years. Before she transitioned to consulting, she first worked in the automotive industry in the controlling department, giving her a clear view of the challenges faced by both consultants and end users. Kathrin has been working with SAP solutions since 2002 and started working with SAP S/4HANA in 2014 with the first version of SAP Simple Finance. She has been involved in multiple end-to-end implementations of its financial solutions.